Ooh… forget about Daily Heights Presents: BUILD/DDDB Debate 2005… we got us a good old fashioned Ratner Fight on our hands.
-Is Develop Don’t Destroy taking credit where credit is not due?
-Did Dan steal a lifetime of press contacts from Patti?
-Will YEAH RIGHT every turn off his/her CAPS LOCK BUTTON?
-Or at least divulge his/her secret identity?
Click to find out.
(This photo is pre-signage… if you have a more recent picture, please send it in or post it to the message boards.)
nikki writes on the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “My husband and I went to Burrito Bar & Kitchen last Saturday … The food was really good. Portions were exactly the size they should be, AND, most important, the food tasted like Southern California Mexican food–something totally missing in NYC and all along the east coast. The chicken was marinated perfectly and– for anyone familiar with southern California–the burrito could have been a high end Alberto’s burrito or from Las Olas. There’s not much that NYC can stand to adopt from so cal EXCEPT good Mexican food… We also had a pitcher of sangria…” Read more…
Munchkin writes: “My smoothie was small and fairly tasteless, but my husband’s chicken wrap was pretty damn tastie. It came with a bit of very good mango salsa and good guac on the side. Fresh, good, a bit pricey. I had fun watching a bartender trying to figure out how to get a frozen margarita out of the blender. Hey, the place is new…”
typograffiti writes: “We vote it is more Bar than Burrito. Food was mediocre. Why spend that much on bland uninspired Mexillence when you can walk a few more block to La Taqueria on 7th ave? …”
MORE: Burrito Bar & Kitchen–Good Review! [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
MORE: Ungodly Ugly Sign on New Burrito Bar [Prospect Heights Message Boards]
OK, OK, it was an innocent typo…
PICTURED: Mamma Donna leads the crowd at the Autumnal Equinox event… thing… yesterday at the Grand Army Plaza fountain.
Click here for more Autumnal Equinox pictures by trevorbrkyln
trevorbrklyn posted this in the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “Drumming in the Dark: An Autumn Equinox Celebration
with Mama Donna Henes, Urban Shaman & Co.
A sunset ceremony to center us as we enter the dark season
Bring kids, drugs, percussion & plenty of spirit [uh… kids and drugs??]
Thursday September 22
6:00pm Event Begins; 6:23pm Equinox Moment; 6:43pm Sunset
Free at the Fountain, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn (2/3 Train to Grand Army Plaza)
For Info: 718 857 1343
Mama Donna’s Tea Garden and Healing Heaven
According to Wikipedia, the autumnal equinox is “the moment when the sun reaches one of two intersections between the ecliptic and the celestial equator … the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox.”
Dr. F reports on the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “A few weeks ago we called 311 because rats are nesting in our front yard … and then a few weeks later we got a citation in the mail from the Department of Health claiming that we had a garbage situation which violated the health code, causing the rat problem. The problem … was the apartment building next door …”
“Ridiculous–we call the City to report a health hazard, and end up geting a citation for it. (Actually, my wife was warned when she called 311 that if they came out they would probably give us a citation, but that seemed so ridiculous that we didn’t believe it.)”
TISH JAMES TO THE RESCUE: Read more…
Image: GotPetsOnline.com
A bunch of DAILY HEIGHTS regulars got together and had a bake sale to benefit a food bank in Houston that’s helping with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Total raised: $613. Thank you Prospect Heights!
Click here for photos.
Every well-kept, pillow-ornament poodle secretly wishes they could lead the life of Lucky the Ghetto Poodle – running around all scroungy and scruffy, business flapping in the breeze, hanging out in a dingy (former) laundromat on the corner of St. John’s and Underhill. Some time ago, Isa told me that that his name is Lucky.
Pictured: Lucky investigates another small creature in the neighborhood. Moments later, Lucky jumped into a green Jeep Cherokee and was whisked off to parts unknown.
Residents of 475 Dean St. asked us to post this notice about a pre-emptive stoop sale before the entire building is evacuated: “The building (475 Dean) is actually in the Ratner footprint, so the sale is actually a purge/prep for the evacuation of the building in January.”
Believe in “Le Resistance” all you want — people are leaving, buildings are coming down, neighborhoods are going to be erased… it’s all becoming very real. Now. And it’s not Beijing. It’s the United States.
THEY’RE DEMOLISHING OUR BUILDING,
WE’RE SELLING OUR STUFF
The lovely and doomed 475 Dean Street is holding a building-wide sidewalk sale this coming Sunday, from noon til sundown. Expect a huge array of random stuff, including clothes, furniture, music and obscure tchotchkes. At least one yellow toboggan will be on sale.
Dean Street between Atlantic and 6th Ave, just down the street from Freddy’s.
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn To Request Finder’s Fee From MTA
Community Group Seeks $6.0008 Million for Raising Ratner Bid
“Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) … will seek a finder’s fee from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the group’s efforts which led to the $50 million increase of Ratner’s low-ball offer.”
“‘We got the MTA $50 million more than they would have gotten without us,’ said DDDB spokesman Daniel Goldstein. ‘At a 12% finder’s fee that comes out to $6 million. Plus it cost us around $800 in printing and mailing to alert developers to the property sale, which the MTA didn’t really do. That comes out to $6.0008 million, which we would accept in cash or check.”
“We know that may sound like a lot of money, but its not much less than Bruce Ratner’s $10 million down payment for the Vanderbilt Yard.'”
Daily Heights announces a bake sale to benefit The Houston Food Bank.
The bake sale will take place on SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY in the schoolyard of PS9 on St. Marks between Vanderbilt and Underhill [Google Map], from noon until…we run out of cake.
There will be lots of choices: cupcakes, cookies, brownies, pie, scones, and some vegan and wheat-free offerings. Come by, make a donation, have a snack, meet the charming denizens of the messageboards.
If you want to help at the sale or drop off baked goods, please come comment in this thread.
Feel free to crosspost this information!