General announcements

• Polska-Masarnia Czeslawa Quality Meat Market Closing?

  billburg / Jul 25, 2008 09:51am

  Reports are coming from Lost City that the Polska-Masarnia Czeslawa Quality Meat Market on Bedford Ave. may have closed.  The gates are down and the interior looks stripped -- anyone know what's going on? 

  
  You can read more about the Polska-Masarnia Czeslawa Quality Meat Market closing here, at http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/.

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• NY Times Covers McCarren Park Pool

  billburg / Jul 25, 2008 09:26am

  Check out the The New York Times' Coverage of the McCarren Park concert phenomenon here. 

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• Volunteer Orientation!

  billburg / Jul 10, 2008 02:52pm

  For those interested in volunteering during any of the 4 Williamsburg Walks Saturdays in any capacity:

  Teresa Toro (Community Board #1 Transportation Chair) will be leading us in a presentation on the benefits of pedestrian streets followed by a quick volunteer orientation session on July 16; doors open at 6:30pm at Boricua College. Enter at 186 North 6th Street - >

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• Donuts.

  billburg / Jun 13, 2008 05:10pm

  The guy who started Vimeo is about to start selling donuts, according to Eater, just because he wants to eat more donuts.

  
  I'm not financially driven, rather I'd be content with a break-even business -- I want donuts to be a part of my diet but there aren't any to be had around here. I have no other >

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• Art.

  billburg / Jun 13, 2008 05:03pm

  Even though BushwickBK didn't care too much for the Bushwick Open Studios (sarcasm),  they've got posted a blogroll of other posts on BOS.

  Read about it  here.

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• Stabbing on Driggs

  billburg / Jun 13, 2008 04:50pm

  The Gothamist has posted again today on the rumor of the series of stabbings in the Williamsburg area. 

  The suspect was said to be in his 20s or 30s (a little late for gang initiation?) and word is that a trained camera on the block recorded the incident -- but it failed to capture the assailant's face.

   

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• "Next he did a Google search for 'what to do if you get locked in a bar.'”

  billburg / Jun 09, 2008 12:57pm

  This New York Times article really speaks for itself, but below, an excerpt from the harrowing story of Kyle Hausmann, the 24-year-old Harvard graduate who managed to get himself snockered and locked in Williamsburg's Trophy Bar. 

  "The lights are off in the bar, and the chairs are up. And I wondered, ‘Where did everybody go?' " Mr. Hausmann said.

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• Wiimbledon Update

  kayluhb / Jun 02, 2008 07:49pm

  We just got an update from Lane over at wiimbledon.net that wiibledon will actually be held on JUNE 7, not July 7th as previously reported.  Registration is/was happening yesterday, today (June 2nd) and tomorrow, which means there are only 40 more slots open starting tomorrow at 12pm!

  
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• Swashbuckling Kickballer Arrested in Macy's

  billburg / May 27, 2008 10:48am

  More Brooklyn Kickball League drama, this time thanks to a member of Los Piratas Mechanicos (the Robot Pirates). 

  
  From Gawker:

  A rabble-rousing kickball player for a recreational team called the Pirates was busted yesterday for brandishing a swashbuckler's sword in the middle of Macy's Herald Square, cops said.

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• Growing population leads to...

  billburg / May 22, 2008 02:02pm

  The school district isn't prepared for growth in the Williamsburg/ Greenpoint/ Bushwick area. 

  More here.

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