Sep 16, 2013 2 min read "Brooklyfication of Brooklyn"

The Day: A Film Crew Apology, A Tenant Meeting and an Author’s Presentation

The sunset over Manhattan as seen from Fort Greene always looks beautiful, but we especially like this one snapped on a late summer evening. (Photo by Francisco Daum)

Good morning, Fort Greene and Clinton Hill.

It was a fall-like weekend in the nabe, with cooler temperatures, a slight breeze and leaves beginning to fall from some trees. The autumn weather will continue today, with temperatures predicted to reach the high 60s and a 50 percent chance of rain, according to the National Weather Service. How did you spend the weekend, locals? Maybe you enjoyed the family-friendly activities and food yesterday at the farewell party for the Tomorrow Sculpture, which was removed after a year-long installation just outside Fort Greene Park.

The film crew for the TV series “Taxi: Brooklyn South” has posted a note apologizing to Fort Greene residents for any inconvenience its set has created, DNAinfo reported. “We recognize your community is a working and active neighborhood and we will be out of your way as soon as possible,” the city’s Location Department wrote, according to the article. The apology, posted on street signs around Fort Greene Park, was a response to an anonymous letter one angry resident taped to a filming notification last week. ”This our neighborhood,” the letter read. “We live here. We are real people. With real lives. Please finish your shoot and don’t come back. You’re not welcome here.” A spokeswoman for the shoot told DNAinfo that the crew posted the note to let locals know “that we have good intentions, that we are decent and that we care.”
The tenants of 400 Clinton Avenue between Lafayette and Greene Avenues will hold a meeting tonight to discuss the effects of an April fire in the building. In addition, the residents will discuss ongoing construction that they believe is unauthorized and has been done without Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard equipment, and other general building access issues, including an out-of-service elevator. Attorneys will be in attendance at the meeting, held at building at 8 p.m.
Helen Wan, a corporate and media lawyer who currently practices as the Associate General Counsel at Time Inc., will present her new novel, “The Partner Track,” at the Greenlight Bookstore tonight at 7:30 p.m. The novel chronicles the life of an ambitious young Chinese-American woman on her way to becoming the first minority female partner at a top U.S. law firm, until an incident at the firm’s summer outing thrusts her into a workplace war based on race, gender and sexual politics. Anne Ishii, a board member of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and a translator and editor, will interview Wan.