MISSING SENIOR CITIZEN: ADRIAN GONZALEZ

UPDATE: MR. GONZALEZ WAS FOUND THIS AFTERNOON.

 

The NYPD issued a Missing Senior Notification at 4:00 this morning for eighty-year-old Adrian Gonzales. Mr. Gonzalez was last seen in Brooklyn yesterday at 2020 Albemarle Road, near E. 21st Street. He is Hispanic, has dark hair and brown eyes, is 6'1" tall, weighs 180 pounds, and was last seen wearing a black hat, a white sweater, blue jeans, and black shoes.

If you see Mr. Gonzalez, call (800) 577-TIPS (8477). You can submit tips online at www.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.com.

FREE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP

Creative Writing Workshop

Friday, May 18th, 3:45 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

New York Writers Coalition believes that "Everyone is a writer, regardless of prior writing experience and formal education." Celebrate New York Writers Coalition Day--creative writing day--with this free writing workshop open to all ages. To RSVP, click here and scroll down. 

Kensington Library

410 Ditmas Avenue, between E. 4th and E. 5th streets

(718) 435-9431

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/kensington

IN CONCERT: DANCE AND MUSIC OF THE SUBTROPICS

Get a jump on summer’s lazy vibe at a late afternoon concert of dance and song from subtropical countries, Sunday, May 20, from 4-6 p.m. at the Dome Playground stage. Dome is located on Dahill Road between 37 and 38 streets, off Cortelyou Road and McDonald Avenue.

Organized by Annie Ferdous, a Kensington dancer and the director of the BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS, the event will feature her 8-member troupe of 10-to-15-year-old girl dancers from local schools. In addition, students at Latin Fever, a dance studio in Ditmas Park, will show off their salsa moves. DVS, a Bangla rap group, and dancers from PS 230 will also perform. And there will be three singers: two Bengali—Bashma and Ashraf Rana—and a rock 'n' roller: Allen Guzman.

An assist from City Councilmember Brad Lander made this program possible. Friends of Dome Playground, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Dome-Playground/122549374516214, is co-sponsoring the concert which will showcase Dome’s stage, the playground’s major architectural feature.

Up until now, no outside theater, music, or dance troupe has appeared here. But this Sunday’s concert, one of the many events being held citywide this weekend at NYC parks in celebration of “It’s My Park Day”—which NYC Parks/Partnerships for Parks holds yearly—could alert Dome’s regular users and neighbors to its possibilities.

OFFICER AND GIRLFRIEND ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT

An off-duty NYPD officer who lives in the 66th Precinct was arrested for assault at 5:55 a.m. on Saturday. Police report that Officer Deevan Dyal pummeled his girlfriend, Nicole James, and she threatened him with a knife. They were in his apartment. He was charged with assault, and she was charged with criminal mischief, assault, and criminal possession of a weapon.

SPRING FLING AT P.S. 154

Spring Fling at P.S. 154

Saturday, May 19th, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

carnival games, crafts, food, fun

P.S. 154 schoolyard

1625 11th Avenue, at the corner of Sherman Street

Windsor Terrace

BROOKLYN PRIDE 2012 EVENTS

Brooklyn Pride 2012

Saturday, June 9th, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Celebrate the 16th Brooklyn Pride

at 

Bartel-Pritchard Square

15th Street and Prospect Park West, at Prospect Park

This year's theme is "Pride Links Us Together."

Event highlights:

• Pride 5K Fun Run: Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.; the run starts at 9:00 a.m. at Bartel-Pritchard Square.
• Multicultural Festival: from 11:00 a.m. or noon to 6:00 p.m., on Prospect Park West, from 9th Street to 15th Street
• Kids Space: from noon to 4:00 p.m.
• Pride Happy Hour: at participating restaurants along Fifth Avenue
• Night Pride Parade: from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Fifth Avenue, from 14th Street to Sterling Place or Union Street

For more information about Brooklyn Pride 2012, visit brooklynpride.org.

NO ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING THURSDAY

Alternate side of the street parking regulations (for street cleaning) will be suspended on Thursday, May 17th, for Solemnity of the Ascension. All other regulations, including those for parking meters, will remain in effect.

"GROWING WITHOUT DIRT: URBAN GREENSCAPING AND HYDROPONICS"

Naomi Donabedian at Cantaloupe Alone (http://cantaloupealone.blogspot.com) writes

Bob Hyland is an urban greenscaping professional with almost forty years of experience since his days running a leading interior plantscaping company in Los Angeles. He was a national industry organization speaker, writer and educator during those years. http://www.insideurbangreen.org

Gwen Hill is an urban farmer, garden educator and local food lover based in Brooklyn, NY.  She is a team member at Prospect Farm, and leads a gardening program at the Harbor School, a public high school on Governors Island.  She worked as the director of education and greenhouse manager at the Science Barge, a sustainable hydroponic urban farm and environmental education center in Yonkers for two years.  She holds a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies and is completing her MA in Geography at Hunter College, for which she is studying the diversity of NYC's urban agriculture movement. http://prospectfarm.org

Meera Bhat is part of the team at Prospect Farm, a neighborhood growing initiative in Windsor Terrace that is working together to grow food in a formerly vacant lot. She lives in Prospect Park South and works as a project manager at the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University.

Downstairs @ Sycamore Bar and Flowershop

1118 Cortelyou Road, between E. 11th Street and Argyle Road

(Q train to Cortelyou)

phone: (347) 240-5850
e-mail: sycamorebrooklyn @ gmail.com
website: www.sycamorebrooklyn.com

MEDITATION AND REIKI TUMMO SESSION

Open Heart Meditation and Group Reiki TUMMO Channeling

Saturday, May 12th, 1:00 p.m.

The Open Heart Meditation is for everyone who meditates, from beginners to advanced. It will be followed by a Group Reiki TUMMO channeling.

Offered by Reiki TUMMO & Open Heart Meditation of NYC & Lower CT.

Open to the public and free. Space is limited to about fifteen people; first-come, first-served.

To be held in the Windsor Terrace Library meeting room. (Turn right after passing through the two entrance doors.)

Windsor Terrace Library

160 E. 5th Street, corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway

718-686-9707

http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/locations/windsor-terrace

MEDITATION, PRACTICALLY FREE

Meditation

Fridays, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Join meditation leaders Walker and Angie Muraqba on Friday evenings at Namaste Yoga. Drop in anytime from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. for a few minutes, an hour, or longer. Learn how to meditate, release stress, feel, live better, and build a healthy sleep pattern.

You can bring a yoga mat with you, or you can rent one from Namaste Yoga for $2.00 (cash only).

Complimentary food and drinks (tea, coffee) served.

Fee: only $5 per person per three-hour session (cash only).

For more information, call Angie and Walker's cell phone at (718) 753-9826, or send them an e-mail at w1617r2000 @ yahoo.com.

Wilhyn Larsen, Owner
My Namaste Yoga of Kensington
482 Coney Island Avenue, 2nd Floor
(347) 533-6226

Enter On Church Avenue, Red Door/Red Stairs

www.mynamasteyoga.com

Info @ mynamasteyoga.com

GOLDEN FARM EMPLOYEE VOTE RESULTS

KARMABrooklyn has received this statement from New York Communities for Change:

"Local 338 of the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Union, United Food and Commercial Workers (RWDSU/UFCW) and New York Communities for Change are proud to announce that the workers at Golden Farm voted 13-8 in favor of Local 338 as their collective bargaining agent. The election still has to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board, which is expected in a week."

BLOCK PARTY: EAST 8TH AND NEWKIRK (NOT FOR COMPOSTERS ONLY)

Block Party

Sunday, June 3rd, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Compost for Brooklyn, a community composting project based in Kensington, will hold a block party where people can "eat, play, grow, learn, and dance in the street in celebration of summer."

Participants, so far:

• Primary Records will curate the music.
• Build It Green! NYC
• Agrowculture
• Cantaloupe Alone: learn about pickling and fermentation.
• Blooming Urban Design Scapes will host the workshop "All About Herbs," which will include a blindfolded contest to identify herbs by smell.

Also, 200 trees will be given away between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., in partnership with New York Restoration Project (NYRP). Register online once registration goes live. 

Compost for Brooklyn

Newkirk Avenue and East 8th Street

Kensington

A DOG TREAT DISPENSER IS ON ITS WAY

Supporters of Sean Casey Animal Rescue donated $300--in less than six hours--to buy a replacement for the dog treat dispenser stolen last month. The rescue set up a ChipIn fund on Friday afternoon. By Friday evening, the needed funds had been raised, and the order for the dispenser was placed today.

The dispenser that the rescue kept on the sidewalk during store hours was stolen soon after the store opened for the day on April 13th. Not just the dispenser and the treats were gone but also the quarters that people had fed into the machine, loose change that helped support the shelter. Soon, a new machine will stand at the ready to dispense treats for those deserving dogs.

A separate donation of $100.00 was given to buy treats to fill the new dispenser.

The Sean Casey Animal Rescue
153 E. 3rd Street (between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue)

on the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington
Phone: (718) 436-5163
http://scarnyc.org
On Sean's page on Petfinder, you can see photos and read about some of the animals available for adoption.

Sean Casey Animal Rescue on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22sean+casey+animal+rescue%22&search_type=&aq=f

                              SUPPORT LOCAL INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES!

CHANGE OF LOCATION FOR ALBEMARLE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

The site of the May and June community meetings of the Albemarle Neighborhood Association (ANA) will be University Place, the student dormitory across the street from Foodtown. That's instead of meeting at the usual venue, the Flatbush and Shaare Torah Jewish Center.

Community meetings are open to the public. You don't need to be a member to attend a meeting.

Refreshments will be provided by Foodtown and ANA.

University Place is wheelchair-accessible.

Meeting dates:

Thursday, May 24th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Thursday, June 28th, 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Location:

University Place

385 McDonald Avenue, between Church Avenue and Albemarle Road

Kensington

Topics:

to be announced

ANA doesn't meet in July or August. The monthly community meetings will resume in September.

COME HEAR UNCLE JOHN'S BAND

                                                               

                                                               Monday Night Vinyl Club
                                               Monday, May 21st, 8:00 p.m. to midnight

You might not hear "Uncle John's Band," but you're bound to hear other bands you'll like. Especially if you bring them. Be a DJ. Bring your vinyl records to The Double Windsor and play five songs on an excellent sound system.

Hosted by Chris and Amy.

Free.

If you're going to scratch, bring your own needles!

The Double Windsor

210 Prospect Park West, at the corner of 16th Street
Windsor Terrace

(347) 725-3479

http://www.dwbrooklyn.com

e-mail: http://www.dwbrooklyn.com/contact.html

MAYBE IT'S A PLANTER.

Beverley Road, near Walgreens

TOMORROW WILL BE A BUSY DAY

Events on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Click to see the blog posts about the events.

Green-woodstock: music, food, and vendors, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Safe disposal event: recycling electronics, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Flea market and bazaar: new and gently-used items, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Speech screening: for children, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Kensington Trash Mob: clean our sidewalks, 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Flatbush Jewish Center, Flea Market and Bazaar

ANTI-ISLAMIC GRAFFITI APPEARS AGAIN

The anti-Islamic message that someone spray-painted on the wall of a  Muslim-owned business on Beverley Road near Church Avenue in February (above left) reappeared this week on a newspaper box on McDonald Avenue near Church Avenue (above right). Both pieces of graffiti are shown here painted over.

In October 2010, the local mosque, Masjid Nur Al-Islam Mosque, on Church Avenue at the corner of Chester Avenue, was the victim of a hate letter. 

Enough is enough.

TRASH, BEGONE!

Return of the Kensington Trash Mob

Sunday, May 6th, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Neighbors:

Meet in front of Walgreens on Beverley Road, off Church Avenue, get a free pair of protective latex gloves and free plastic trash bags, team up with others and enjoy the camaraderie of picking up trash together, and then regroup after the clean-up for free refreshments. You'll also get free fresh air!

A free Kensington Trash Mob tee-shirt will be given to the first ten new Trash Mobbers to arrive.

See "The Joy of Cleaning Church Avenue" for a little more information.

REPLACE THE STOLEN DOG TREAT DISPENSER

The doggie treat dispenser in front of Hamilton Dog House/Sean Casey Animal Rescue was stolen, and money is being raised through ChipIn to replace it.

GOODBYE TO THE OAK AND THE IRIS

 The Oak and the Iris Cafe

Closing today

May 4, 2012

To enlarge the image: right click, open link in new tab,  use CTRL+ until it's readable.

GREEN-WOODSTOCK IS NEAR

Green-Woodstock: A Day of Peace and Music

and Tasty Treats and Bargains

Just two days away:  Sunday, May 6th, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Get ready to rock.

And country and jazz and pop. 

Everywhere will be song and celebration.

Performers

9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Merle Misty Jones croons country classics with his lonely guitar. http://www.gangstagrass.com

10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Bargainland. Brooklyn NY dwellers, 2 girls, 2 fellers, perform 99 cent specials from the Annals of American Popular Song.  

http://www.myspace.com/bargainland

11:00 a.m. to noon.

Debbie Deane sings lush, intelligent, and soulful songs influenced by jazz and soul.  

http://debbiedeane.com

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Cynthia King Dancers. Innovative progressive dance.

 www.cynthiakingdance.com

3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Paul DeCoster, rock balladeer, performs his rock and roll-influenced originals and rock classics.

www.reverbnation.com/decoster

Vendors

corico.etsy.com  Original designs in jewelry, clothing, and more.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/SOMAcraftmehappy?ref=si_shop  For the little ones.
http://www.Brookidlyn.etsy.com  Children's items.
www.lolaandolivia.com  Boutique items for infants, toddlers, teens, and adults.
www.thewondercity.com  The Wonder City: A Graphic Novel

Presented by Friends of Greenwood Playground 

E. 5th Street, near Fort Hamilton Parkway and Greenwood Avenue

Website: www.friendsofgreenwoodplayground.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Greenwood-Playground/223014854379847

Twitter: FOGP1

VEGAN SUPPER CLUB THIS MONTH AT BROOKLYN COMMUNE

Vegan Supper Club

Saturday, May 19th, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

At Brooklyn Commune's monthly Supper Club, the menu alternates between omnivore, vegetarian, and vegan fare. The March dinner--which was the first one--was omnivore, the April dinner was vegetarian, and this one is vegan.

Meals are served family style at the communal tables on the last weekend of every month. Because the last weekend in May is Memorial Day weekend, the Supper Club is scheduled for the preceding weekend.

Menu

Chilled Raw Green Vegetable Veloute with Young Ginger, Green Apple and
Sea Kelp

Wakame Salad Sushi Rolls with Almond-Wasabi "Mayonnaise"

Radish "Lo Mein" Salad with Mexican Culantro, Watercress, Compressed Watermelon and Chipotle-Horseradish Oil

Beet Lasagne with Tofu Cheese, Adzuki Puree and Carrot-Tomato Broth

Braised Tempeh with Wild Mushroom and Barley Ragout

Coconut and Chia Seed Pudding with Seasonal Fruit

includes coffee and tea with dessert

Price: $40 per person (excluding tax and tip).

Bring your own wine or beer, if you want to have any.

Click here to make a reservation.

Brooklyn Commune

601 Greenwood Avenue, at the corner of Prospect Avenue
Windsor Terrace
(718) 686-1044
e-mail: feedme @ brooklyncommune.com
http://brooklyncommune.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brooklyn-Commune/109783589077211?ref=ts&v=wall

DAVID BINDMAN ENSEMBLE BRINGS ITS MUSIC TO WINDSOR TERRACE LIBRARY

The David Bindman Ensemble

Saturday, May 19th, 1:30 p.m.  to 3:00 p.m.

The David Bindman Ensemble will perform a free concert of jazz and world music at Windsor Terrace Library in celebration of National Chamber Music Month.

The ensemble features David Bindman, tenor and soprano saxophones/composer; Wes Brown, bass; royal hartigan, drums; Art Hirahara, piano; Frank London, trumpet and flugelhorn; and Reut Regev, trombone, performing songs and extended compositions by Bindman.

Their debut CD, "Sunset Park Polyphony," was recently released and selections can be listened to here.

The concert is sponsored by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC), the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York State Assembly, and Brooklyn Public Library.

David Bindman Ensemble

www.davidbindman.com

dlbindman @ gmail.com

NEWS FROM SEAN CASEY ANIMAL RESCUE

"Sunset Park: Our second home!"

"Midwood Pit Bull Caught"

"Adoptable Pet of the Month: Timmy" 

Read all that and more online in the brand-new monthly

Sean Casey Animal Rescue Newsletter.

The newsletter will keep present and future customers, friends, and fans informed about the rescue's hectic and productive schedule and its many achievements.

Join the newsletter's mailing list

Sean Casey Animal Rescue

153 E. 3rd Street, between Fort Hamilton Parkway and Caton Avenue
on the border of Windsor Terrace and Kensington

(718) 436-5163
http://scarnyc.org

nyanimalrescue @ yahoo.com

http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/NY637.html

https://www.facebook.com/SeanCaseyAnimalRescue