One more week to comment. SUPERFUND GOWANUS! And a word from CORD.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] If you are a reader of FIB you know how this is near and dear to my heart. I firmly believe that the EPA should clean up the Gowanus Canal. The city has ignored us all these years and it is not until some condo developments might be delayed that they have actually taken an action and they are still scrambling for a plan, while the EPA is ready to go. Anyway please read the voice of the community NOT the developers and the people who love them here: Hello! As the end of the public comment period rapidly approaches and all of the meetings have been held and a great deal of information disseminated, CORD is convinced now more than ever, that the nomination of ...

Mini Documentary: Superfund and the Gowanus Canal
Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn — Sabine Aronowsky and Steve de Sève have produced a mini-documentary called The Superfund and The Gowanus Canal.  It is under 10 minutes in length and covers the Superfund's origins at Love Canal, the city's history with the Gowanus Canal,  increased flooding in the canal area, and just ...

Read this.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] In the spirit of the 4th of July and democracy I am reposting a most fabulous comment from a native Brooklyite in response to the Superfund nomination.It could not be more opposite from the Toll Brothers rep who I understand is also a native Brooklynite (he really should be ashamed of himself)his comment does not mention the community only the development community anyway this comment is long but worth the read...please comment yourselves, click on the whale to the right. To: Docket Coordinator HeadquartersU.S. Environmental Protection Agency CERCLA Docket Office - Mail Code 5305T 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20460 Via email: ...

Watch This!
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The Gowanus Canal has ALWAYS been Stigmatized...Superfund Gownus!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Fabulous FROGG founder, Linda Mariano, shown on the Carroll Street Bridge over the Gowanus Canal, is campaigning for the Superfund. This wonderful article is reprinted from yesterday's Daily News. Please do not forget to comment on the EPA's website, there is only 2 days left to do so! It's the battle for the Gowanus Canal. The controversy surrounding the polluted waterway has inspired great passions on both sides in Carroll Gardens, complete with posters, buttons, flyers, marathon meetings and YouTube videos. "I've never seen a campaign like this ever, anywhere," said federal Superfund Director Walter Mugdan. "I've never heard of one ever, ...

Found in Prospect Park
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Found on Carroll Street
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Third and Third Twilight
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Budget Beach Accommodations
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Time is Running Out to Save Coney Island.
Found in Brooklyn — OK. I apologize for being so last minute on this. Bottom line is the city wants to close the amusement area in with high rise hotel towers. Save Coney Island thinks the amusement area should be expanded and the hotels moved OUT of the amusement area. There is a meeting today, Tuesday July 21st, at City Hall where The Zoning and Land Use Committees are now scheduled to vote on revisions to the Coney Island rezoning plan so, If there was ever a time to fight for your right to Save Coney, it’s now. The City Council’s Land Use Committee is expected to vote on the rezoning plan this week. The full Council vote is scheduled for July 29. In a last ditch effort to save ...

Land Use Committee Pushes City Coney Plan through but it ain't over yet!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Following up Tuesday's City Counci Land Use Committee hearing regarding the rezoning of Coney Island - basically the Mayor's plan is being continued to be pushed through. The only council member to vote against it was Tony Avella. They want to expand the amusement area but also put residential and also hotel towers amongst it. Most folks who are against it are all for the expansion of the amusements but they want the high rises moved out of the immediate area. They also may move the Wonder Wheel!!! I give you the response from the folks at Save Coney Island . Council Fails to Request Needed Changes to City’s Coney Island Rezoning Plan "Local activist ...

Coverage of Sunday's Save Coney Island Protest at City Hall
Found in Brooklyn — On the case again exposing all the wrongs going on in Brooklyn - Sabine and Steve over at Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse have made this video and sent these words about the tragic war to save Coney Island. "Save Coney Island had a press event July 26 to update the public on the city council vote on July 29th and to encourage another round of phone calls to the Speaker Quinn and all of the City Council members to keep Coney Island for amusement. The current city plan cuts most of the zoned amusement acres and rezones for high rise buildings. With Kevin Powell, Dick Zigund, Angie Pontani, Savitri D, Famous Bob, Rev. Billy, and other notables who want to enlist your ...

Say NO to the Atlantic Yards - Protest 1pm Wednesday!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] One day F.I.B will go back to it's original, whimsical format but until then yet another fight against over-development is going on.... From Freddy's Bar & Backroom on behalf of Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn If you Dig Freddy’s, hate thieves, Love Old Bars, Hate Billionaires, respect community and question miss use of power ...... HELP US! July 29: SAY NO TO ATLANTIC YARDS - PROTEST Against Ratner’s Rip-off Wednesday. July 29. 2pm. Start Gathering at 1pm. Outside Klitgord Auditorium of NYC Technical College 285 Jay Street, Near Tillary (A/C to Jay St./Borough Hall. 2/3 to Borough Hall) The Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC, which is ...

Leprechauns arrive in Brooklyn in July
Found in Brooklyn — [image] You may or may not already know that the City won on the rezoning of Coney Island, too disheartening for me to even write anything about it. So click here to find out the details. Hopefully all the plans will fall through. Ya think it's possible? We still don't have a new World Trade Center right? Maybe they will RETHINK the idea of putting FOUR hotels or residential buildings smack DAB in the middle of where the amusement area as we know it. Maybe the realistic thought that Coney is still almost over an hour from LOWER part of Manhattan and what a pain in the ass to drive to from outlying areas. That it may be as DEAD as Atlantic City in the winter. ...

The return of Don from Don's Music
Found in Brooklyn — [image] A few years ago there was a very cool record store on Amity Street in Cobble Hill. A record store that did not fit in with the surrounding boutiques and real estate offices. This store was funky in a real unstylized way. It was a real record store with old and new vinyl, cd's, guitars, zines, old bikes and some other oddball items that had nothing to do with music. Some might recall the proprietor was a loquacious fellow named Don and the store bore his name as well - Don's Music. These places are rare. Although not a record store, I would put the antique store Yesterday's News on Court Street the only place with a similar friendly ...

Waiting for the bus....
Found in Brooklyn — [image] A couple times a week I transfer from the subway to the bus at the corner of McDonald Avenue and Bay Parkway. Washington Cemetery is jammed packed and most of the newer burials have photo realistic etched portraits. At first I didn't like them but now seeing the face with the dates and places of birth leaves my mind wild with made up stories about their lives. More of my musings about Washington Cemetery here and here .

Found in Brooklyn: Far away so close....
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F.I.B presents 4 bands for Free at Freddy's on Friday!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] A reminder about this show I mentioned the other day. 9:00 The Puppetheads 10:00 Oh OK: Oh OK is an anti-folk trio. An unusual girl with a guitar armed with drums & cello for a sound as unique as the song-writing. 11:00 The Health Club : The Health Club are a three piece band from L.A. They are everything that is right with rock n' roll. Pretense, pompousness, and formulaic music arrangements are all banned substances in The Health Club. Garage Rock! 12:00 Manhattan Murder Mystery A popular LA New Wave band not to be missed. Tearing up the coast regularly! Recently made Groupee.com's "Emerging 30" list, a list of hot bands ...

Big Metal Frame in the Sky
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Wax Buildup at the Candle Factory
Found in Brooklyn — I was passing by the Crusader Candle Factory the other day when my companion noticed the wax build up on the floor on the President Street side. For those who are unaware, Crusader Candles makes the candles with the Saints, Jesus or Mary printed on the glass that you see in supermarkets and bodegas. It is definitely one of the most unique niche businesses in the Gowanus area. [image] Looks like they were working on red and pink candles that day .. [image] This is one serious truck with it's shields and crosses, they've got God on their side which definitely helps if you have ever driven on the BQE! Crusader Candles: "They burn better!".

Blondie * Pat Benatar* The Donnas Thursday Free in Brighton Beach
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Yeah, everyone and their mother will be there but it might be good for the spectacle. The tour has been getting mixed reviews, apparently Pat has been acting bored and the Donnas have been cancelling. Maybe performing for a Brooklyn crowd in the Brighton Beach breezes will wake them up a little. Where?: Asser Levy/Seaside Park at West 5th Street and Surf Avenue Coney Island/Brighton Beach, across the street from the New York Aquarium. How much?: FREE or 5 bucks for a seat (get there early for that!) * Please note that you will be subjected to Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz rambling on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ...

Blondie & Pat Benatar in Brighton
Found in Brooklyn — [image] To follow up on last night's show which was thankfully not rained out I have to take back my comments about what I heard was an underwhelming tour. If you blinked you missed the Donna's who only played three songs but Pat Benatar and Blondie did not disappoint and I went in with absolutely no expectations. I was thrilled that Blondie did "Atomic" and Pat did "Hell is for Children" (one of the strangest songs ever written). [image] We were as far back as you could possibly be but I did worm my way up during Blondie's last number, that blurry picture shows their "Parallel Lines" influenced stage set, it the show sounded great from the back I can only ...

Ghostly Coney
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READ indeed and Councilmen Wannabee's Debate about Speed...
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Third Street between Bond Street and Third Avenue. "READ" had impeccable brush skills....is this the same crew who did this? Anyway, back to local politics (blah!) there is an informative article in today's Gotham Gazette about how the Gowanus is a hot topic in the elections for a wannabe Councilman to replace Bill DeBlasio. READ it here . F.I.B is undecided about who to vote for, I am skeptical of all but with a gun to my head I would go for Josh Skaller or Gary Reilly. To add more fuel to the fire of trying to make a decision there will be a debate amongst all the 39th district canditates tomorrow night in Park Slope where they will be ...

BEAUTY...
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More Beauty...
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Don't Forget About the Brooklyn Flea this Weekend!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] [image] The stultifying heat might make you - like me - forget that the stuff you usual do on the weekends during the rest of the year are still on, like the Brooklyn Flea! I went to the one under the Brooklyn Bridge last Sunday and there was tons of fab stuff for the picking! [image] It's a bit of a hidden jewel so just head down toward the water and it's next to Brooklyn Bridge Park. The one in Fort Greene is also still happening on Saturdays. Click here for info and directions for both spots.

Tornado like Storm on Brighton Beach
Found in Brooklyn — [image] In an attempt to beat the heat, F.I.B head out to Brighton Beach and was lucky enough to be there for this crazy epic tornado like storm that didn't seem to hit the rest of Brooklyn. [image] [image] [image] It was beautiful. If we weren't lucky enough to have shelter I probably wouldn't of enjoyed it so much....did anyone else experience this?!

Field Trip to Williamsburg
Found in Brooklyn — [image] This week is F.I.B's summer vacation and while most people might go to Maine, I do not think I have been to Williamsburg for well over a year and took a little fieldtrip there today. Upon exiting the G train at Metropolitan Avenue I was quickly made to feel like I was at home as the sister building to the "Open Your Eyes" building that I see from my house in South Brooklyn was the first thing I saw as I hit the street! Ironically F.I.B used to rent a space in this building on Keape Street about 5 years ago. It was owned by a company that made Murphy beds. Now it is vacant and window less and covered with grafitti. What's up with that? [image] Then upon ...

Brighton Beach Bay or NONwatch.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Notice the beach closed tape? Many people didn't! Some of you Brooklyn beach bums may be aware that the waters were closed to swimmers over this past weekend due to extreme riptides. But not to worry because you could swim anyway! Most of the lifeguards along the strip of beach between Coney Island and Brighton were more concerned with how to style themselves (should I wear the designer sunglasses and the lip gloss?) or how fast they should twirl their whistles. The most shocking thing was that the group I was near spent most of their time BEHIND or on the SIDE of the lifeguard stand with their backs to the water! (I guess they never heard of the number one ...

Walkin'
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Found on Sackett Street
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Fourth Avenue Freeze Out
Found in Brooklyn — [image] I know they evicted people and knocked a building down at this site. Then the artist that sold her soul to the developers put up her trademark flowers and inane words like "Thank you!" on the wall. On this one she actually wrote "What is humility?" Don't ask a developer! Or perhaps that was a meditation for herself to make her feel better for putting a folksy face on glass and steel. Well it looks like the big plans fell through and now this piece of property at the toney local of fourth avenue and 7th Street is for sale and her artwork is the legacy of hope of the year 2008. Read and see the art & bad poetry about dead revolutionary war soldiers done by ...

Big Moving Sale * Friday & Saturday
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Found on Third Avenue
Found in Brooklyn — A big Citroen dealership in Brooklyn? Hard to imagine. Perhaps that is why it is no more. If you were wondering, Citroen is a french automobile manufacturer. The type of car that you see in a Jean-Luc Godard movie.

Spectacular Sunsets & Stupendous Sand Castles
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Found on Coney Island, Labor Day Weekend. [image] Outstanding workmanship! The symmetry was amazing and the detail!!! Steps! Gothic Style Windows! Flying Buttresses! [image] And of course the beach, the water was divine. As I have said before, who needs the Hamptons and those annoying people that go there. Gimme Coney! P.S- When you visit be sure to stop by Coney Island USA and see the Side Show (I did!) or visit the museum or have a beer at the fab Freak Bar where you just might here live xylophone music by Fisherman as I did yesterday. Always something going on there so check the schedule. Also! The FOUR DAY ...

Found Photo Follow Up! They Were Heroes!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] I posted this photo I found in a huge lot of photographs I came across about a year an a half ago. The strange juxtapostion between metal stoner dudes and fire truck intrigued me as well as made me laugh for some reason. It was one of my faves out of the over a thousand photos that i had. Well guess what? Someone saw the photo and recogonized the guy on the right, contacted him and then he contacted me! When I originally posted this my photo description was: "Do you think these guys are hipsters or just fireman wannabes?" Ends up there WAS a reason they were posed in front of a fire truck. They saved an elderly lady from her burning apartment 22 years ...

Eight Years Later
Found in Brooklyn — I don't often choose to go back to this day. The feeling of helplessness and overwhelming grief that went on for months sometimes feels like a lifetime ago yet when I think back I can remember everything. This post is in trIbute to never forgetting the pain and loss NYC felt that day. 9/11/2007 I didn't think I'd mention 9/11 but here I am doing it. I was out the other night and seeing the beams of light shooting through the sky from the 9/11 memorial completely surprised me. I had forgotten about 9/11 . As everyone who was in NYC on that day and the months that followed it is almost unfathomable to think that time has dulled the memories of that day. Everyone has a ...

Parachute Performance Festival at Coney Island 9/12 & 9/13
Found in Brooklyn — There are things to do at Coney Island even when it rains! The other weekend when I stopped in at the Coney Island History Project, I met Amanda Deutsch the director of this festival. The Coney Island History Project is offering free downloads of a walking tour for your ipod or phone which you could do before checking out this FREE festival which is taking place at the Coney Island Aquarium

Egyptian Mermaid
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P.S.A: Don't Forget to VOTE on Tuesday!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Just think. After tomorrow our mailboxes will unclog! F.I.B's voting guide for the many (I know you're out there!) who are also sick of over development, politicians selling out neighborhoods and overall dispicable behaviour. Will the new ones be any different? Only time will tell. BUT here's FIB's recommendations. TONY AVELLA for MAYOR of NYC! Norman Siegal for Public Advocate. And locally, Josh Skaller for City Council. Comptroller? Melinda Katz. The main goals here are to get Bloomie out, prevent Bill DiBlasio away from becoming Public Advocate and no David Yassky as Comptroller. Hope it happens.

"Brooklyn Utopias?" Art Show Opens this Thursday.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] I received this press release from particiapting artist Triada Samaras: Brooklyn Utopias? is a series of group art exhibitions and public programs organized for this fall. Brooklyn Utopias? engages artists, youth, and community groups in considering differing visions of an ideal Brooklyn. The “Democracy Wall” featured paintings, photographs, newspaper clippings, blog excerpts, personal comments, drawings and more. It became a symbol of my neighborhood’s strong opposition to large-scale, luxury development in our low-rise, brownstone community, threatening the original planning of Carroll Gardens by the urban planner Richard Butts in the 19th ...

How Will Climate Change Effect Us Locally? Attend this Presentation on Friday.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Ever wonder how storm surges due to climate change might effect the Gowanus Canal and Red Hook area? Come to this presentation led by Malcolm Bowman, PH.D Professor of Physical Oceanography and a Distinguished Service Professor at the Marine Sciences Research Center (MSRC) State University of NY at Stony Brook this Friday evening at 6pm to find out what the possibilities are. This event is hosted by F.R.O.G.G (Friends and Residents of the Greater Gowanus) and the Sierra Club. From the press release: Storm Surges In Our Brooklyn Community What does the current science indicate? How might climate change effect our area? What does this mean for our Gowanus and ...

2009 Coney Island Film Festival October 2-4th!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] It's time again for one to THE BEST film festivals in one of the most unique locations in the United States, it's the Coney Island Film Festival! Now in it's ninth year, this years line up seems as fascinating as ever with opening night kicking off with a 28 minute short about side show performers called "Step Right Up" by Luke Marshall followed by documentary The "Prince Of Mermaid Avenue" by Coney Island historian, Charles Denson. [image] "The Prince of Mermaid Avenue"The story of Jimmy Prince, owner of Major Meats on Mermaid Avenue, who retired after a sixty-year run as an anchor of the community. These are followed by the always entertaining and ...

The Community's Voice is TOTALLY being ignored...last push to SUPERFUND the GOWANUS!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] You know how F.I.B was begging you all to comment on the EPA's website that the Gowanus Canal should be Superfunded from April to July? And before that letting you all know that the Gowanus is not the place for the Toll Brothers as well as others to plant their condos as it is an AQUATIC BROWNFIELD? Remember how happy the community was when the EPA stepped in? The show of support of the community resulted in 80% of the comments to be FOR the Superfund! BUT apparently that means nothing as even the comment period is OFFICIALLY OVER, the EPA in Washington is taking time to take meetings with Mayor Bloomberg and NOT the community and last I heard is stalling ...

Another Atlantic Antic
Found in Brooklyn — It isn't fall in Brooklyn without the Atlantic Antic! Although I have nothing against people selling their wares, the music and hanging out with friends is always the main draw, plus it didn't hurt that it was a 5 star stunner of a day weather wise.. [image] Once again Les sans Cullotes performed in front of the Last Exit bar... [image] I was particularly enamored with the keyboard player's mime t-shirt and tuxedo jacket with zebra striped yoke and fringe! [image] And speaking of fashion - FOUND ON ATLANTIC AVENUE! The Reverend Billy Talen's shoes! Bloomberg would never pound the pavement in such fab shoes as the Reverend Billy Talen does as ...

Coney Island Film Festival #9 Wrap
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Miss Cherry Delite and Scott Baker perform at the opening night party. The Coney Island Film Festival once again successfully featured great films of all kinds this year. Despite the torrential rains on Saturday, the film fans came out. As usual, the opening party was fabulous. The amount of talent and work put into the show with it's mixture of burlesque, vaudeville and side show talent never ceases to wow me. Although not part of the film festival, F.I.B also attended the screening of the Warrior's on Saturday night, I saw the Warrior's on their HOME TURF! How cool is that? And how cool is it to listen to Dick Zigun tell people to be LOUD after telling ...

Found on Sackett Street
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Bloomberg Comes to Gowanus and LOCKS OUT COMMUNITY!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] F.I.B's eyewitness news team showed up this afternoon for Bloomberg's celebration of the start of work on the Gowanus Flushing tunnel finally starting (of course it took the threat of halting development to proceed) and said that no one who really lived in the community was allowed to watch or participate in it! The usual suspects were there for this private celebration. You know, Toll Brothers,our former lame-o Councilman Bill DiBlasio, Buddy Scotto and his crew, Borough President Marty Markowitz, assorted politicians and the people who love them and of course the press. Can't wait to see what slanted articles appear in the Post and the Daily News ...

New FBR Video: Jane Jacobs Remembered with Reverand Billy Airs Tuesday Night.
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Sabine Aronowsky and Steve DeSeve the duo behind Freddy's Brooklyn Roundhouse, have released their latest episodes this week and they can be viewed on BCAT & Manhattan cable tomorrow (Tuesday)night at 8:00 and in Manhattan on Thursday. The next two episodes focus on the words and ideas of Jane Jacobs and the current developments happening in NYC today. As per their press release: "The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs’s most famous book, helped change the blind acceptance of urban planners and their grand schemes to remake cities into unlivable places. Jacobs ended Robert Moses’ reign of bad building and urban destruction. With the ...

Gowanus Open Studios this Weekend (A.G.A.S.T)
Found in Brooklyn — [image] A painting of the Gowanus I found on the street a few years back! It's time for the ANNUAL GOWANUS ARTIST TOUR or A.G.A.S.T this upcoming weekend. It is an event that is completely free and allows you to wander around the neighborhood, roughly between DeGraw and the Ft. Hamilton Parkway, from Hoyt up to 5th Avenue and enter artist's workspaces as well as galleries. As per an email I received: The Annual Gowanus Artist Studio Tour (A.G.A.S.T) will take place in Brooklyn this Saturday and Sunday, October 17-18, 1-6pm. Near the Gowanus Canal and in it's 13th year with some 150 participating artists, the A.G.A.S.T. tour is considered one of the most ...

Gowanus Finally Gets Honest Major Newspaper Coverage!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] I am reprinting this article from today's Daily New's because it is so nice to get an honest account about what is going on over the battle between the community & the EPA versus Bloomberg and assorted developers which include suburban home giants and Williamsburg condo blighters, The Toll Brothers . Bloomberg nor anyone else in the city cared about the Gowanus until developers started snooping around dreaming about building condos like the glass/steel ones on the Bowery in Manhattan. Except these were going to be built on a toxic brownfield on the shores of an aquatic brownfield without a thought to health and environmental risks. I guess ...

Wake for ABC No Rio
Found in Brooklyn — I am week late on letting you know that, if you are unaware, non profit art spot, ABC No Rio is preparing for the demise of it's existing structure. I attended the wake for the building last week where I witnessed the cast canvas shroud of this lower east side tenement being ceremonially removed and dropped into a waiting casket. The wake ensued in the gallery space after a procession around the neighborhood. Check out an exhibit or a performance now before you say "I should of.." and the before the building is gone or even better! DONATE some money towards their new GREEN building designed by architect Paul Castrucci . There are different ways to ...

Found on Sackett Street (again)
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Urban Divers Enviromedia Mobile Debuts!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Ludger Balan founder of the Urban Divers accepting one of two nice checks, this one from Waste Management! The other was a very nice sum from Assemblymember William Colton. So nice to have some GOOD POSITIVE news regarding our urban waterways! Today I attended the unveiling of the fab Enviromedia Mobile which travels to schools throughout the NY area educating about all things aquatic in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall. Inside this long metal trailer your will find everything from aquatic artistic inspiration, info about effects of climate change on marine life amongst many other relevant topics. The mobile also has a lot of very cool historical nautical ...

Reverend Billy Speaks Out Against Fracking
Found in Brooklyn — This just in from my favorite video activists Sabine Aronowsky and Steve DeSeve. Green Party Mayoral candidate Reverand Billy recently visited their Brooklyn headquarters and spoke about an irresponsible New York Times article on gas drilling. Why was it irresponsible? They did not mention the "fracking" that's being done in New York State What's fracking? * "Fracking," as the industry calls it, involves injecting a million gallons or more of water and chemicals deep underground to pry out gas that's locked away in tight spaces. Many environmentalists want the federal government to regulate the practice because, in some cases, fracking may be harming nearby water wells. ...

Found in Prospect Park
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Happy Halloween and Sam Hain....
Found in Brooklyn — Prospect Park On Halloween or Sam Hain, the veil between the worlds is thinnest, and communication between the world of the living and the world of our deceased ancestors, the fairy folk, and other spirits is easiest. So don't forget to visit with them somehow! Light a candle and think on the people you love who have left you, you may get an answer! Otherwise, listen to Black Sabbath's first

Don't Forget to VOTE Bloomberg OUT TOMORROW!!
Found in Brooklyn — Bill Thompson deserves your vote tomorrow. The polls are open from 6 A.M. to 9 P.M.  Turnout will be light tomorrow.This means your vote will carry more weight than it usually does. AND THIS ALSO MEANS you have *NO RIGHT* to COMPLAIN about Bloomberg if YOU DON'T VOTE TOMORROW! The man will probably get his third term by voter apathy. DO NOT LET him BEAT YOU DOWN! So Enjoy some

"About Face" Opens at The Tabla Rasa Gallery in Sunset Park Tonite
Found in Brooklyn — [image] The Tabla Rasa Gallery in Sunset Park is presenting a new group show called "About Face" and it opens tonight in Sunset Park. The sculpture shown is done by my friend Jeannine Bardo who I have had the honor of meeting in the Art Education program at Brooklyn College. This sculpture "Eve" is made out of natural birch wood shavings, it is too beautiful for words! Go see it and all the works having to do with "the face" being shown at the Tabla Rosa Gallery. Other artists included in this show are: Stephen Basso Simon Dinnerstein Anita Giraldo Clarity Haynes Kiseok Kim Alexandra Limpert Alex Pimienta David Prifti Stuart Shedletsky Larry Siegel The ...

"Toxi City" Exhibit at the Brooklyn Lyceum
Found in Brooklyn — [image] There is a stunning photo exhibit called Toxi City at the Brooklyn Lyceum, catch it before it ends next week on November 8th. The photos are taken by Robin Michals and the New York Sate Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Site Remediation list was the starting point to determine sites selected to photograph.It's all about invisible contamination and there are photographs from Coney Island, Gowanus, Bushwick, Williamsberg to Greenpoint. From the artist's description: The exhibition Toxi City: Brooklyn’s Brownfields explores the legacy of Brooklyn’s industrial past and the spectrum of pollution in which we live. The exhibition ...

Celebrate the fall of Communism with some Eastern European Punk Rock this Weekend!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Wanna do something interesting and witness some historical legends? Show your solidarity! Dezerter are apparantly the Clash of eastern Europe, I have been listening to some of their tunes and I can feel the similarities except these guys REALLY were working for the Clampdown! From the Rebel Waltz Festival's description: Legendary Polish hardcore punks DEZERTER are coming to the United States for the 1st time in nearly three decades. The band - who began operations in 1981 as SS20 - remain one of Poland's most well-regarded underground punk bands and one of the few non-English-speaking groups to actually attain international notoriety outside of Eastern ...

Ghost of a Used Car Lot on Fourth Avenue
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EPA Reveals that the City of New York is a Gowanus Polluter!
Found in Brooklyn — [image] The Gowanus was particularly foul smelling last night and as I was crossing over the Carroll Street bridge I mused over the battle of the Superfund. The whole ongoing bru-ha- ha over the City's plan vs. the Feds, pitting developer against community and whatnot. How the City only got interested when there was potential for development to be stalled while the canal got the environmental clean up it so needed. How DESPICABLE it was that the city OK'd bringing large new condos and thousands of new residents into a place that is an aquatic brownfield. So, today, despite the gloomy weather, I felt the sun shining on me when I read the news that the EPA is going ...

Found on Sterling Street
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"Who Walk in Brooklyn" writes to Luc Sante (and he answers!)
Found in Brooklyn — [image] Dig Luc Sante? Like old postcards? Then you will *DIG* the interview done by frequent photo F.I.B photo contributer, Brian Berger . And GET this! The interview was actually done via post written by HAND on old postcards. Brian not only talks old postcards with Mr. Sante but asks him compelling questions such as, "Who would you rather have seen lecture, Emma Goldman or Carry Nation? Neither mourned the assassination of President William McKinley, shot by the anarchist Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6, 1901." You can see Lucs' answer below, but better yet go read it at Who Walk in Brooklyn! . [image] ...

Found on Carroll Street
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