“… corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken.”
New Orleans in Anarchy [SFGate]
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In the Dining & Wine section: “Restaurant Sorrel This newest addition in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, is an airy setting for the market-driven menu created by Alexandre Tchistov, formerly of 360 in Red Hook: 605 Carlton Avenue (St. Marks Place), (718) 622-1190. BAR CENTRALE A raw bar, sandwiches and antipasto are what you will get with drinks starting next Wednesday at this new spot, upstairs at Joe Allen: 324 West 46th Street, (212) 581-6464.”
Since there are so many New Orleans expats and aficionados in Brooklyn, here’s a few updates on the chaos that’s spreading through the city. Funny, people were almost celebrating last night that the city dodged a bullet…
The breach in the 17th Street canal levee (on the lakefront) is “football-field sized” and they are trying to sandbag it. In the meantime, all of downtown is filling up with water. No news on the airport that I’ve heard, but many of the roads out are now underwater since the levees broke. CNN is reporting that 80% of the city is “under water” now–that can’t be right, can it??
The report on CNN a few hours ago was that there are about 10,000 people stuck in the Superdome and the authorities won’t let them out yet, mainly because there’s nowhere for them to go, and many of the roads out are pretty much blocked. EMS personnel are delivering injured persons to the Superdome.
The tension in the Superdome is getting pretty extreme, and one guy just deliberately jumped to his death – he got up from a domino game, said “look out” and threw himself over a balcony.
Now, there are fires breaking out in several places. Refugees are flooding toward the Superdome right now, because the water is still rising. The area around the Superdome has gone from knee-deep to waist-deep and is expected to go even higher.
Finally, just saw footage of Canal Street looters – the stores are all being completely pillaged! People are stopping in the street to try on Nikes and make sure they get the best fit.
No word on Jacques-Imo’s and uptown in general, but downtown, I imagine the French Quarter is starting to fill up…
UPDATE: Jefferson Parish is under martial law. It’s going to be at least a month before anybody is allowed back in!
New Orleans Flooding: Discuss in the Message Boards
Oops. A bit dated now, but here it is. From the New York Times via Brownstoner.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS $750,000
34 Plaza Street
2-bedroom, 2-bath, 1,250-sq.-ft. co-op in postwar building; 24-hr. doormen; dining area, windowed kitchen, parquet floors, Manhattan skyline view; roof deck; maintenance $1,029, 30% tax deductible; listed at $695,000 (multiple bids), 3 weeks on market (broker: Warren Lewis Realty)
Last week’s “server overload” incident knocked Daily Heights off The Internets, and in an emergency session, we had to negotiate with our benevolent webhost to put us back on the air, please.
In response to these woes, DAILY HEIGHTS regular Carnivore inquired about donations. His “can I donate” post generated a flood of response. Within hours, we had more than $500 in donations come in through Paypal! I’m really struggling for a way to properly thank FLUTE, JamesOnVandy, Lucas, Stacey, Daniel, alafairnadia, Carnivore, 11238, Eugene from Prospect Park, and all the rest of you for your support.
The immediate crisis period is over, but you can still make donations at any time via paypal (at this address: [email protected]) or by check/cash/whatever. Clicking the “donate” link over to your right makes this process super easy.
So what about that server problem? The status of Daily Heights is a bit better than last week – we are still limping along on the same old server. We’ve crippled a few server functions so that the site won’t run so hot. It’s not clear whether we will stay or go, but inertia certainly consumes fewer man-hours of internetty frustration. Whatever happens, all of your donations WILL GO toward improving the site, paying for bandwidth/server space, supporting neighborhood events, etc.
Regards,
The Management
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NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is doing a piece on Ratner and Atlantic Yards, so they ducked into Freddy’s–a hornet’s nest of anti-Ratner sentiment–to get the community perspective.
Brooklyn Papers just published an article about the PBS news crew coming to Freddy’s. Hey Jess, great article, but you got the reporter’s name wrong… it’s Ray Suarez, not Luis…
Warning! This link is not safe for work. Or kids. Or anybody, really.
Via Gawker…
“This is, to the best of our knowledge, for real, and it happened earlier this week in Prospect Heights Park Slope.”
>>From: XXXX
>>Subject: For your “Only in New York” files. (Warning: nudity)
>>To: XXXX
>>
>> Hey all…
>>
>>OK, so it’s 2:30 a.m. on a Monday night, and right outside
>>my window, on the public street below, in front of God and
>>everybody are a man and a woman going to town on a dirty,
>>stained mattress the neighbor girl threw out earlier that
>>morning!!! Imagine!
>>
>> …
>>Now, the question begs: Who’s the bigger pervert, the couple
>>bumping uglies on a dirty mattress in the middle of a public
>>sidewalk, or me for taking pictures?
Click here to view the picture. And comment. And vote in the Daily Heights poll.
Just doing our part to pass this one around. We originally saw this posted by friendly_chic407 on citynoise.org, the website of Prospect Heights’ very own rhodamine. Now it’s on Flickr, and Boing Boing, and joshreynolds.blogspot.com, and …
‘chic says: “I tried to avoid eye contact with him but I had a feeling he was up to no good when he kept massaging his crotch … So I took out my cell-phone and turned on the camera. Then I aimed the camera at him and took a quick shot. He quickly zipped himself up and got off at the next stop (it was two-three stops before union square). That didn’t prevent me from getting a really good shot of him in the act.”
Discuss. Also, another photo of another alleged subway pervert via brooklyngirl. [Daily Heights Message Boards]
LeslieGore writes: “I am getting really tired of … people leaving their junk on the corner- it blows up and down the street, getting in my yard and in others. It is so inconsiderate.”
“To who ever left their old clothes on the corner- If you want to throw out your stuff- do it in front of your own house. If you want to leave it for your neighbors- do it in front of your own house.
To the person who left out the air conditioner- do you know that there is a free city agency that will pick it up for you? … So you do not have to leave it on the corner- in front of a building you do not live in? That way, when the guy with the bat and the shopping cart comes by at 11 pm to beat it up and to rip out the motor- I will not have to call the precinct house. Thanks for letting the freon out all over the place.”
“I do not mean to offend anyone- I am just getting really tired of people treating the corner as if it is a dumping ground. We all live here- please try to be considerate of your neighbors.”
The Prospect Heights photo pool on Flickr now has 95 entries, thanks to recent entries from Alafairnadia (sp?) and trevorbrklyn. Here is “shay shay and sandy,” which I think may have been taken this weekend at the St. Johns Ave. block party (Trevor, true? yes? no?)
