qtrain writes in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “Microsoft has released a new mapping system with detailed aerial views of Brooklyn:”
“Photos look to be a few years old, with construction on the Museum, Atlantic Terminal, and a missing fountain in Grand Army Plaza.”
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“get out your camera phones…”
“Yesterday at Yelison I was made privy to the knowledge that a woman (who was ahead of me in line purchasing a condom and a little box of gum) had been in 4 times earlier that day for condoms. I guess there’s at least one working girl on Washington.”
Epidemic or Anecdote? Prospect Heights Message Boards
Brooklyn PHOTO by acrstudio.
Not gone. Apparently knocked down by a car and it’s now under repair, according to lovemynabe.
Charles/ugarte says: “I can’t speak specifically to historical significance, except to say that attractive antique clocks on tall poles are rare these days, but used to be more common. Whenever we lose one, a bit of the city’s architectural history dies. We had one in our neighborhood, but no more.”
“I found a picture of the clock – when it was standing – on Forgotten NY; you have to scroll down to find it. It is designated as “Flatbush and Eighth in Park Slope,” but more accurately was at Flatbush and Park in Prospect Heights. It is a much better picture than my nighttime phonecam snapshot.”
Huh? What clock? Where? Crustythor says: “you probably would only remember it as one of the many public things to which Key Food ties their ridiculous, bootleg tarp ‘awning.’ ”
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Photo: Forgotten NY
Here’s some key excerpts from The article by PH-er/CH-er (and DH-er) Joshua Bernstein (JoshB):
“In Africa, a palava hut is a town hall with a high, thatched roof and waist-high halls, so that everyone can catch the goings-on. On Atlantic Avenue, Palava Hut is one of the warmest, most welcoming establishments I’ve visited in months (992 Atlantic Avenue btw Grand & Classon Aves., Prospect Heights, Brooklyn; 718-623-3174)…”
“What you find is a serve-yourself policy and a dusty, see-through fridge. It’s stocked with mini-pyramids of Guinness, Heineken and Beck’s in the stomach-pleasing 24-ounce size. Pay four bucks per bottle, grab a plastic cup, crack the beer’s cap with a Corona bottle opener and sit at a plastic-topped table. Now you can marvel at the exploded-curio-shop decorating scheme…”
“…The well-spoken proprietor, Remy, can often be found resting her head on a clump of pillows, watching PBS on a tiny color TV. The scene is all grandma’s kitchen, if grandma lived in Nigeria.”
“During the daytime and early evening, Palava Hut sells gigantic plates of home-cooked vittles. Though I have yet to sample every delicacy, on one visit I tried fried rice, served alongside goat on the bone (in ‘red sauce’)… The okra-studded fried rice was savory and delicious–and large enough for two–while the goat was tender. The red sauce, however, was a five-alarm fire … Palava Hut (also) offers pepper soup, cow’s feet, beef, traditional yam dishes and ‘land snails’… ”
“You can drink … surrounded by a cast of characters (including) Baba Jagun … During the ’80s, he drummed for Fela Kuti … I feel a little awed by this obscure legend, happily toiling away on Atlantic Avenue, miles away from the stage.” Read more…
Find out on Daily Slope, Park Slope, Brooklyn.
“… I know that noise is a part of living in this area, but it’s every morning with these people.”
“Then, like two nights ago, at 1 am, some guy was just honking repeatedly– not a car alarm, either, because it was totally irregular, and lasted like 20 minutes.
“Isn’t there some sort of city ordinance against non-emergency honking in residential areas? I mean, obviously I’m not gonna really ever do anything about it, but if I want to yell stuff out my window, do I have a case?”
elitt writes to Daily Heights: “I’m curious to know if anyone has information on the antique street clock that was knocked down and subsequently taken away from the corner of Sterling and Flatbush. It was/is of historical significance…”
Obscure phonecam photo sent to us by Charles Star of Stay Free Blog:
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Over on Brownstoner:
Some folks in Prospect Heights aren’t happy about the barricade…
“>http://dailyheights.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2198
Posted by: Hal at January 24, 2006 11:15 AM
Hal – those people complain about everything/anything.
Posted by: Anonymous at January 24, 2006 11:52 AM
LINK: Meier Gets Out His Shovel [Brownstoner]
This editorial is a bit of an extreme view. Had it appeared in the New York Post, it would be easy enough to dismiss outright… but this comes from the the Daily News, which in the past has been fairly sympathetic to the anti-Ratner crowd:
Bounce this suit
“Opponents of the planned $3.5 billion Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn have stooped to a new and ludicrous low by filing a futile and all-too-predictable lawsuit in state Supreme Court to try to stop developer Bruce Ratner from demolishing six vacant, partially collapsed buildings that he already owns…“
“Opponents appear determined to sue early and often to tie him up in litigation and are even trying raise a nonissue: the fact that an ESDC environmental lawyer involved in the project once worked for Ratner…” Read more…
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From the Daily News: “The fire that gutted the Crown Heights brownstone next to mine Saturday morning could easily have killed me and my family… more than just the smoke stinks. Yesterday, a Fire Department spokesman told me the burning of 600 St. Marks Ave. has been classified as arson.”
“… the house changed hands three times in less than two years, each time for considerably more than the place was plausibly worth. In February 2004, a longtime owner named Gloria Moore sold the house for $640,000 to a woman named Francillia Ryan, who in turn sold the house to Janet Howard in December 2004 for $790,000… A few weeks ago, on Dec. 19, the house changed hands yet again, bought by someone named Crispin Booker for $850,000.”
“No one on the block thought the building was worth anywhere near that much… Neighbors tell me that an ominous warning was allegedly made to the building’s residents the night before the fire to quit the place or else.” Read more in the Daily News
From the Prospect Heights Message Boards:
“Am I the only one that noticed that Tony Soprano was pulling this scam, like, 3 seasons ago?”
