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No Words Daily Pix: Photograph by Hugh Crawford
March 22: Poets for Haiti at the Old Stone House
On Monday, March 22 at 8PM, Louise Crawford and Michele Madigan Somerville present POETS FOR HAITI, an entertaining and inspiring event designed to raise funds for relief efforts in Haiti.
Join poets/performers Sharon Mesmer, Joanna Sit, Wanda Phipps, Roy Nathanson, Bill Evans, Ellen Ferguson, Christopher Stackhouse and more at the Old Stone House in Washington Park in Park Slope (Fifth Avenue and Third Street).
It is sure to be a great evening.
Each of the three Poets for Haiti events will take place in a different venue. On Friday, May 7th at 8PM Poets for Haiti will be at Vox Pop on 1021 Cortelyou Road. Another event is still being organized.
All money raised from these event will be donated to Doctors Without Borders and AJRWS.
The Census is Coming, The Census is Coming
Did you get a letter from the US Census Bureau? It’s not the Census form, it’s the pre-Census form alerting you that the Census form is on its way.
I got mine and it said that one week from today we will be receiving the actual 2010 Census form in the mail. The Census Bureau wants everyone to fill it out PROMPTLY because your response is IMPORTANT. Results from this Census will be used to help each community get “its fair share of government funds for highways, schools, health facilities and many other programs.”
The Census is coming. The Census is coming.
FDNY To Remove 15,000 Fire Alarm Boxes
Red fire alarm boxes are about to become a thing of the past.
Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano says deactivating 15,000 of them will save the city $6 million. The Fire Department is also considering closing 20 firehouses, which Cassano says will save the city $37 million.
Apparently, most of the calls they receive from those boxes are false alarms. Cell phones are the way most fires are reported.
March 11th: Protest the Atantic Yards Ceremonial Groundbreaking,
Eric McClure, who runs Park Slope Neighbors, is urging all of his friends and neighbors to heed Develop Don’t Destroy’s call to protest the groundbreaking on March 11th at the Atlantic Yards. The details are below.
Dear Park Slope Neighbor,
We haven’t written about Atlantic Yards for some time, as the fate of the project has for the most part been playing out in the courts. Unfortunately, legal rulings have favored developer Forest City Ratner and its government sponsor, the Empire State Development Corporation, and it’s now looking increasingly likely that a basketball arena — and a vast surface parking lot — will soon begin to take shape in Prospect Heights.
While there are still two lawsuits extant that could stop the project, or at least send it back for additional review, Forest City Ratner has scheduled a ceremonial groundbreaking tomorrow, March 11th. We believe, as do the numerous groups that have fought to stop or at least significantly alter Atlantic Yards, that it is vitally important to show that there are many, many of us who remain steadfast in our opposition to the corruption of public process, the broken promises, the give away of valuable public assets, and the likely havoc that a 20- or 30-year build-out will wreak on the adjacent neighborhoods.
To that end, we strongly urge you to heed Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn’s call to protest tomorrow. From DDDB:
What: Groundbreaking to Bury the Soul of Brooklyn
Who: Three-foot tall bobblehead Bloomberg, Markowitz, Pataki, Spitzer, Paterson, Schumer, Cuomo, Prokhorov and Ratner
Where: Outside of Freddy’s Bar, 485 Dean Street (corner of 6th Avenue)
When: Thursday, March 11th, 12:30 p.m. SHARPFollowing the event at Freddy’s, protestors will march to the “official” groundbreaking ceremony, which is planned for what used to be the intersection of Atlantic and Fifth Avenues, before a block-long stretch of the latter was condemned and conveyed to Forest City Ratner for the sum of $1.
We hope to see you there. For more info, please visit http://dddb.net/upcoming.php.
Sincerely,
Eric McClure
Campaign Coordinator
Park Slope Neighbors
March 20: Neighborhood Energy Forum
About a year ago, Sustainable Flatbush’s Executive Director and its Director of Energy Solutions were strategizing about the best ways to meet the urgent need for energy efficiency upgrades in our neighborhood, to bring down soaring energy costs and reduce our carbon emissions.
With new incentive programs from government and utilities, they realized the time was right to leverage funds that would bring major energy efficiency and renewable energy projects to Flatbush.
So they conceived the Neighborhood Energy Forum. For the past year, SF’s Energy Solutions Initiative has been working diligently to bring the Neighborhood Energy Forum to fruition. They have joined forces with a group of sponsors and partners, the Flatbush Development Corporation, the Energy Smart Communities program of the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), ConEd, and National Grid.
It all happens on March 20 at the Brooklyn College Student Center, from 9:30 to 2:00.
Admission is free! Read more about at Sustainable Flatbush.
Civic Council Forum: Bringing Change to Fourth Avenue
On March 4th, the Park Slope Civic Council held a public forum at the Saint Thomas Aquinas Church on Fourth Avenue. The purpose: to re-imagine the future of Fourth Avenue. Here’s an excerpt from the Brooklyn Downtown Star sent to me by Gilly Youner, a member of the Civic Council:
Fourth Avenue might be an important Brooklyn artery, but the Champs-Elysees it’s not.
The no-frills motor-way, which branches off of Flatbush Avenue and slices through Brooklyn, is the route of choice for countless cars and trucks each day.
The centerpiece of the evening was a group of panelists who approached the idea of change for Fourth Avenue from different perspectives and professional disciplines. Overall, they floated visions of a brighter, greener, more pedestrian-friendly boulevard.
Panelist David Sweeny,the founder and president of the Public Development Services Corporation, a real-estate development company, characterized the current Fourth Avenue as “abysmally flat and hollow.”
Sweeny encouraged area residents to envision a Fourth Avenue with a neighborhood sensibility, where pedestrians would enjoy strolling. It is a goal he believes could be achieved, in part, by the avenue becoming a home to ground-floor micro retailers. “It would make Fourth Avenue a dynamic, more interesting place,” he said.
Other ideas ushered forth included planting more street trees, creating a scenic median, and north-south bike lanes.
“Fourth Avenue could be one of the next great boulevards of the borough of Brooklyn,” said Craig Hammerman, Community Board 6’s district manager, also a panelist.
Benchmark: New Restaurant in Park Slope (off Fifth Avenue)
I just got a press release about Benchmark, a new restaurant in Park Slope on Second Street just off Fifth Avenue.
I walk by there all the time. How’d I miss it?
Oh! Benchmark is on 2nd Street not Fifth Avenue. But still. I can’t quite picture the space. The press releases says that Benchmark is accessed through a spacious 52-seat garden patio entrance. Huh? I think it must be around the corner from the Loki Lounge or maybe in their back space?
And what is it?
The press release explains that Benchmark, a restaurant featuring New American cuisine prepared by executive Chef-Partner Ryan Jaronik, is serving a menu that emphasizes pasture-raised meats and locally-grown produce. “Chef Jaronik melds seasonal American cooking and global influences with an emphasis on steaks and chops.”
It’s beginning to sound ultra cool: “Between the 1920s and 1940s, the space was once used as an icehouse and a major way station for goods that that arrived on the banks of the Gowanas Canal. Building upon the location’s history, the 45-seat dining room embraces the naturally rustic interior and features exposed brick, arched windows, banquette seating, warm pendant lighting and radiant heat floors.”
And the name. Why the name?
More coolness: The name “benchmark” refers to a surveyor’s mark used as a reference point in tidal elevations and surveys. During the excavation of the site and viewing old blueprints, several of these marks were found, along with surveyors’ and architects’ tools, some of which are displayed on the restaurant’s walls. Nice.
The menu draws inspiration from Chef Jaronik’s childhood and past experiences. Growing up in rural, Northwest Indiana, he learned the importance of the small farmer and the role they play in the food community. Ryan grasped this knowledge and moved to Chicago, where he spent the next ten years working in a variety of different cuisines, including Gibson’s Steakhouse, TRU Restaurant, Mas and Hugo’s Frog Bar. From Chicago, he moved to Boston where he was the Executive Chef of the three star restaurant, Masa. Just prior to opening Benchmark, Chef Jaronik was the Executive Chef of Monkey Town in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn for the past three years.
So what’s on the menu?
Starters include Trio of Beef Short Ribs: Corned, Braised + Broiled and Chorizo Stuffed Chicken Wings with Hot Celery Giardiniera; entrée highlights include Seared Long Island Duck Breast with Leg Confit and Sweet Potato Hash and Shrimp Crusted Atlantic Halibut with Shiso Yuzu Broth, Tomato Confit and Cranberry Beans. Chef Jaronik complements his new American cuisine with the several years of experience he has cooking in the bustling kitchens of Chicago steakhouses. He has a high regard for the straightforward steak dinner and gives it a prominent place on his menu. A featured section of à la carte pasture-raised steaks and chops offers up to five different cuts, including a 24 oz Bone-in Ribeye and an 11 oz Filet Mignon. In the coming months, a meat aging room will be constructed for dry-aged beef and cured sausages.
Benchmark is open for dinner Tuesday through Sunday and reservations are available for parties of all sizes by calling 718-965-7040. Walk-ins are welcome. Brunch service will be added in the Spring.
Dinner | Sun-Th, 5 – 11 PM | F + Sat, 5 PM – 12 AM | Closed Mondays
March 18 at 8PM: Blarneypalooza at Brooklyn Reading Works
On Thursday, March 18th at 8PM, Brooklyn Reading Works presents Blarneypalooza, a literary celebration of Irish writers, music and influence planned with Saint Patrick’s Day in mind.
The following artists will read/perform at the historic Old Stone House in Washington Park on Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope: Ann Beirne, Jill Eisenstadt, Barbara O’Dair, David Freiman, Greg Fuchs, Patrick Brian Smith, and Michele Madigan Somerville.
The Current Weather in Park Slope
Brought to you by The Feldman Family from their weather tower in Park Slope.
What is Happening at Moutarde?
Moutarde, a popular French bistro on Fifth Avenue and President Street, is shuttered, presumably for renovations. In the movie Julie & Julia, the restaurant played a real 1940’s Parisian bistro. Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci ate a fabulous meal in there in a wonderful early scene.
So why did they shoot the scene in Brooklyn and not Paris. Well, it could have been budgetary issues. But I’ve also heard that Nora Ephron’s location team could find no restaurant in Paris that looked so convincingly like a restaurant of that time period.
Funny that the restaurant is renovating now that it has been immortalized on film. You’d think they’d want to keep it the same for its film history value.
Or maybe it’s time to make a change.
Resignation of Dionne Mack-Harvin at the Brooklyn Library
Dionne Mack-Harvin resigned last week as head of the Brooklyn Public Library because of the very public and embarrassing way she handled the firing of 13 employees last year.
As if it isn’t bad enough to be fired, the actual firings were featured in a Washington Post article about Mack-Harvin.
Lets just say, axed employees feel mighty vindicated by Mack-Harvin’s decision
It’s like Up in the Air on its head. Here’s an excerpt from an article in the Daily News:
Shhh! There’s a scandal in the stacks at the Brooklyn Public Library.
The head of the sprawling system abruptly quit last week after a plan to lay off 13 employees backfired and ended in a very public embarrassment.
Insiders said the firing fiasco was the last strike against Dionne Mack-Harvin, a well-liked career librarian who took over the shaky system three years ago.
“The board was not happy with her,” a source said.
It wasn’t supposed to end this way.
Mack-Harvin took the post with great fanfare and a fabulous back story – the African-American daughter of a sharecropper who loved books and rose to her dream job.
Her predecessor had left under a cloud, and staffers hoped Mack-Harvin would provide a fresh start. She hit a few bumps over the past few years, but none would prove as fatal as a decision she made last August.
After taking a 5% cut to her $80 million budget, Mack-Harvin hired corporate downsizing experts to fire 13 employees.
The Manhattan-based firm, the Five O’Clock Club, was being profiled at the time by a Washington Post reporter, who was allowed to witness the library bloodbath – and chronicled it in painful detail.
“And now, the first layoff victim,” read the front-page story.
“It is a middle-aged woman … with her head bowed and a distant stare in her eyes. She is fund-raiser with less than three years’ experience,” it continues.
Another Bagel Shop on Seventh Avenue
Remember that bright yellow and orange Korean market that went in on Seventh Avenue between Union and President right near Aersoles?
It was called Park Slope Farm and it closed rather quickly. The space at 106 7th Avenue stayed vacant for quite a few months.
That was then this is now. According to Brownstoner, a bagel cafe is going in.
Park Slope Parents Nanny Compensation Survey Released
Last week Park Slope Parents released the 2010 PSP Nanny Compensation Survey. The results are up on the PSP Website and it reveals some interesting changes since last time they conducted the survey (March 2008). Indeed, the economy has definitely had an impact on the neighborhood in terms of Nanny/Employer relationships.
The direct link is here: http://www.parkslopeparents.com/docs/NannySurvey2010.FINAL.pdf You can also access the the results through the PSP homepage, http://www.parkslopeparents.com.
Here are some highlights of the survey:
–The average pay for 1 child is $13.50 – $15 per hour and for 2 children $15 – $16.50 per hour.
–77% of those surveyed pay their nannies off the books.
–The economy has caused four in ten employers to make changes to their nanny/employer relationship.
–51% gave 2 weeks notice as severance pay, 30% gave 1 week pay, and 19% gave a higher amount.
–91% of employers give year end bonuses.
The folks at PSP contributed hours of hard, invaluable work on this very well presented survey. “While it may seem like a quick thing to make happen, there’s a lot of data cleaning, analyzing, re-analyzing, content analyzing, and over-analyzing that goes into putting this document out,” writes Susan Fox in an email.
The PSP Nanny Compensation Survey is based on data collected in October/November of 2009. Over 800 parents participated in the survey from the following groups: Park Slope Parents; Hudson River Park Mamas; BoCoCa and more!
Text & Donate to the Brooklyn Library
For the “Support Our Shelves” campaign, the Brooklyn Public Library will be accepting tax-deductible donations via text messages.
All you have to do is text the word “books” to 50555, and the library will receive a $10 donation, which will show up on your next cellphone bill. The Brooklyn Public Library is the first library system to adopt this method for donations.
“It should make a difference on two fronts,” said Jason Carey, a library spokesman told the Brooklyn Paper. “It’s a new way to get people involved who might not have gotten involved before. Plus, it allows us to keep communicating with people if they opt in.”
