March 13, 2010
My thoughts are with the victim of the brutal assault yesterday in Carroll Gardens, another reminder that lack of tolerance for LGBT individuals is sadly still with us. All violence should be prosecuted, regardless of motivation, but this bias-motivated attack is particularly vicious for the fear it is intended to inspire. I know that law enforcement officials and the Brooklyn District Attorney are pursuing those responsible for the attack, and I will continue to stand with them and my colleagues in government to make our community safe for all residents.
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“A report released last month by the Tri-State Transportation Campaign named Atlantic Avenue the most dangerous road for pedestrians in Brooklyn with 9 deaths over the three years from 2006 to 2008.”
(via Tri-State Transportation Campaign)
“We journalists certainly aren’t slaves to fashion, and that’s why we like Karen Patwa — great minds think alike.
The owner of Dangerous Mathematicians just moved her custom design boutique from the Lower East Side of Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue because she was sick and tired of the absurd, lavish and expensive getups touted by Lady Gaga and the fashion industry on that other island.”
(via The Brooklyn Paper)
Rock Climbing
Who says there aren’t challenging precipices to explore anywhere inside NYC’s borders? Brooklyn Boulders is the metro area’s largest indoor rock climbing destination. With a whopping 18,000-square feet of scaling surface, climbing and bouldering here isn’t just an after thought like at other gyms that have a climbing wall in the corner.
(via Planeteye Traveler)
“Meanwhile, a two-alarm fire broke out at 4:30 this morning at Concord St. in Boerum Hill, leaving two firefighters hurt. The residents escaped unharmed, but their home was gutted by the blaze.”
(via The Brooklyn Ink)
March 12, 2010
My wife and I bought an iCandy cherry stroller over the weekend.
It was between this, an i’coo Targo, and a Bugaboo Bee. All roughly the same price when you include a bassinet attachment. In the end, we chose the iCandy because it’s incredibly light (16 lbs), relatively tall, and pretty…
heartlessgiant:
Move over rabid raccoons, there’s a new four-legged fiend terrorizing Brooklynites! After we mentioned a opossum sighting in Cobble Hill yesterday, Courier-Life has found out that opossums have been attacking the borough’s gardens, dogs, and teenage girls!
Community Board 11 member Marnee Elias-Pavia’s 13-year-old daughter nearly ran into oncoming traffic after spotting the animals’s terrifyingly large nose in Dyker Heights. Wild opossums have also been spotted in Prospect Park, Bay Ridge, and Fort Hamilton; a Coney Island councilmember blames the city for the growing population, saying that when a rat problem took over Marine Park and Gerritsen Beach they brought in opossums to take care of them. Now in some sick Stephen King-eque twist, the population has grown even though they weren’t supposed to be able to reproduce—and as one expert says, their pregnancies are quick “like a bowel movement.”
So are we headed towards an opossum takeover? Probably! These nocturnal animals are killing machines—one gardener in Carroll Park says she found dead pigeons and mutilated squirrel bodies* scattered about recently. And once they get infected with The Rabies, not even Will Smith will be able to save us.
“If hell was a bit nippy this past weekend, or airborne pigs were spotted over Prospect Park, I can offer an explanation. Which is this: Shortly after noon on Saturday, I, The Brokavore, a man devoted to thrift the way carp are devoted to swimming, walked into the Mile End on Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill, asked for a poppyseed bagel, and pried $2.50 from my cold, not-quite-dead hands.”
(via Brokelyn)
 dcwhip:
This is a Batavus “PERSONAL” delivery bike. It’s black, has one speed, a coaster brake, a kick stand, chain case, racks, and a dynamo lighting system. I discovered it in the basement of the Smith and Butler boutique in Carrol Gardens last October. I am selling this bicycle because my therapist suggested I need to come to terms with my attraction to african-american women. No sister is going to date a 34 year old systems administrator riding a european grocery bike. However, when I would cruise slowly down Park Slope’s fifth avenue, panties would literally fly off of every white or asian woman with a stroller and a master’s degree. I live in Williamsburg now and the bike confuses most of the women here. If I grow my moustache out a little and explain it only has one speed “like a fixie” I can sometimes get to second base. But for the most part I might as well have a soul patch and collect classic cameras. If you want to get some action I’d only take this baby out south of Atlantic Avenue. Spring is coming and if you like flat-assed waspy moms who went to Vassar, this is the ride you need. (via Stately Dutch MILF Magnet)
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