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10th Annual Tree Lighting At Fulton Park

December 11, 2009
7:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

Large snowflake decorations were hung on the tree Thursday afternoon in front of the Fulton Park pavilion.  This all leads up to the friends of SoLA (The Shops of Lewis) gathering tomorrow for the 10th Annual Tree Lighting – Friday December 11th at 7PM. The festivities continue with caroling and refreshments at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church (265 Decatur Street, between Stuyvesant Ave. and Malcolm X. Blvd.).  For more information, contact Brownstone Books at (718) 953-7328.

The Exclusive VIP Blaq Party – Introduction For Upscale Fridays

The Exclusive VIP Blaq Party
Doors open at 10:00 p.m.
Friday December 11th
Denim Lounge
1223 Bedford Avenue (Between Halsey & Hancock Streets)
(646) 508-9794
charlimoevents@gmail.com

UPDATE: Brooklyn Food Coalition Bed-Stuy Action Alert! + Winter Party

December 10, 2009
6:30 pm	to	10:30 pm

Hello Bed Stuy community,

Here’s  information about our Bed-Stuy Farm Action Alert, the Brooklyn Food Coalition Winter Party, and the details of our next Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Council meeting.

BED-STUY FARM ACTION ALERT
You can help save Bed-Stuy Farm!  Please spread the word!

Bed-Stuy Farm has Greenthumb status and is a working farm that produces over 7000 pounds of produce per year and feeds 3000  people a month. Once a vacant lot & dumping ground, it is now a magnet for the community; an educational center offering courses in farming and nutrition and supplies the emergency food program & farmers markets. ¨

It is now in danger of being sold by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to developers to repay a debt incurred by Neighborhood Partnership Housing Development/Direct Building Management.

Bed-Stuy Farm has received community support with over 1200 petition signatures and local and national press.  They have presented 1200 signatures to elected officials and received favorable responses, but need written letters of support!

The loss of Bed Stuy Farm will also begin the encroachment of other community gardens that provide a place for seniors,young people & other community members to grow their own fresh food!

Help take action and call, email, write or stop by the office of the following elected officials.  Tell them you’re a constituent and you want them to write a letter of support to HPD to save Bed-Stuy Farm:

Velmanette Montgomery
30 Third Avenue, Room 1100, 11th Fl.
Brooklyn, NY 11217

Phone: (718) 643-6140
E-mail: montgome@senate.state.ny.us

Darlene Mealy
1757 Union Street, 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11213

Phone: (718) 953-3097
E-mail: darlene.mealy@council.nyc.gov

Annette Robinson
360 Fulton Street, Room 417
Brooklyn, NY 11216

Phone: (718) 399-7630
E-mail: RobinsonA@assembly.state.ny.us

Ed Towns
186 Joralemon Street, Ste. 1102
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Phone: (718) 855-8018
E-mail: Jonathan.Noble@mail.house.gov

Al Vann
613-619 Throop Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11216

Phone: (718) 919-0740/1
E-mail: avann@council.nyc.gov

Helen Foster
1377 Jerome Ave.
Bronx, New York 10452

Phone: (718) 588-7500
E-mail:foster@council.nyc.gov

BROOKLYN FOOD COALITION WINTER PARTY

Please represent our neighborhood and come celebrate BFC’s 6 months of organizing on behalf of Food Justice!  We hope to see you there!

Thursday, December 10 (tomorrow)

388 Atlantic Ave. (bet. Hoyt & Bond Sts.), BROOKLYN

Hoyt-Schermerhorn (A/C/G), Bergen St. (F/G)

6:30pm-10:00pm

$5-$50 donation (pay what you can, no one will be turned away)

Learn more and RSVP here:

http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com/events/bfc-winter-party

BED-STUY NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL

Our next meeting will be held in mid-January at Brooklyn Rescue Mission.  Date and time TBD!  Much to discuss and get moving forward for the new year! Stay tuned for details in the upcoming week.

If you haven’t yet, please become an organizer at our Ning site to stay up to date with our neighborhood and the BFC’s happenings: http://brooklynfoodcoalition.ning.com

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Yours in food democracy,

Allyson Lynch
Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Council Delegate

Phone: 718.864.9304
E-mail: missalboogie@gmail.com

New Tree Life and Tree Loss

The MillionTreesNYC initiative continues!   You may have seen some new street tree plantings around Bed Stuy this week.  To report a couple of sightings, a Japanese Zelkova that was planted on Van Buren Street at Throop Avenue…

…and a row of Bald Cypress trees now serve a purpose on Madison Street between Ralph and Patchen Avenues, where trees were scarce on that side of the street.

There’s also a Zelkova tree that was planted in front of Bridge Street AWME, on the corner of Stuyvesant Avenue and Jefferson Avenue.  You’ll also find a few new trees on Hancock Street, between Lewis and Stuyvesant Avenues.

I’m a huge tree zealot!   As I travelled around the hood, I was proud to see the youngins.  Yet within minutes my celebration of tree life turned into sadness.  I noticed that four healthy Ginkgo trees that were planted earlier this year were removed.  They were planted along side of a recently built corner home on Putnam Avenue at Patchen Avenue. 

I can only conclude that the homeowner had them removed.  I recall in the late summer, the owner removed some shrubs and an Ailanthus tree (you can see the tall stump on the property towards the left).   Homeowners do have the right to choose whether they would like a tree planted around their property.  Wishful thinking is that the trees were safely uprooted and planted elsewhere (sigh).  Anyone else spotted a new tree planting or two?

ARChive Holiday Record and CD Sale

December 10, 2009
6:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

I don’t normally post about events going on in Manhattan; I usually try to limit the blog to posts about Bed-Stuy or at least about Brooklyn neighborhoods that are nearby.  Today I’m ignoring this rule, because this post is about records and, well, when it’s about records, the rules change. You don’t listen to records, you say? Well you should. Everybody’s already doing it. 

The ARChive of Contemporary Music is a not-for-profit archive, music library and research center that collects, preserves and provides information on the popular music of all cultures and races throughout the world from 1950 to the present. (They’ve got Youssou N’Dour, David Bowie and Jellybean Benitez on their board of advisors!) The ARChive is preparing for their holiday sale with a pre-holiday sale/party tomorrow from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. If you can’t make the pre-sale, you can visit them everyday from December 12th to December 20th to pick up some cool records (or CDs, if you listen to those).

ARChive Holiday Record + CD Sale
December 10th 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
December 12th-20th 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
The ARChive of Contemporary Music
54 White Street
New York, NY
212.226.6967

Former Companion of An NBA Star Shot Dead on Clifton Place & Bedford Avenue

Various news sources have reported that 51 year-old Audrey Johnson, who was once a companion of former NBA Star World B. Free, was shot and killed in front of her building while checking on a dispute.  In sarcasm – after reading the New York Times blog of the story, I like how some of the comments focused not on the actual tragedy or crime, but whether the incident occurred in Bed-Stuy or Clinton Hill.   The neighborhood border battle continues.

Flipping Out On Halsey Street

Looks like this brickfront Colonial styled home located on Halsey Street and Malcolm X Boulevard is just about finished,  but it didn’t always look like this.  Check out the house before the flip, thanks to Google Maps.   Anyone know more information – interior features, asking price?

Open Mic at La Table Exquise

December 6, 2009
1:00 pm	to	5:00 pm

New Beginnings and Fluid the Likewater Movement Present “Dancing in Brooklyn”

December 4, 2009 10:00 am

to

December 5, 2009 4:00 am

Imhotepstudio, a new gallery and event space, is having a party tonight! There will be music by DJ Pookey and DJ Juanita, with Boyd Jarvis on keyboard.

Imhotepstudio
1050 Bedford Avenue (Corner of Greene Avenue)
10pm-4am
$5.00 ALL NIGHT LONG

2nd Annual Communitree Day at the Hattie Carthan Community Garden

December 6, 2009

10:30 am

10:30 am

On Sunday, December 6th, the Hattie Carthan Community Garden will be having its 2nd Annual Communitree Day. Here’s your invitation:

Dear community,

Happy brown leaf season!

This message is for all of you who care about trees or simply love to get dirty in the garden. Please spread far and wide to tree and Earth lovers everywhere!

Only the hardiest veggies are growing now, but there is still a lot to do in our gardens. Our trees must be cared for and pruned, our gardens must be cleared and this is the time for fall planting. We will also be adding a double layer to our hoophouse as we found out during our hoophouse winter experiment last year that one layer of film is just enough to warm the plants during February and March. Season by season, we are learning through doing and observing.

The Hattie Carthan Community Garden invites you to join us at our 2nd Communitree Day on December 6, 2009 honoring the green majesties of our garden. Breathing and garden logistics start at 10:30 am in the vicinity of the gazebo. Join us in acknowledging, pruning, and clearing away dead limbs from the trees who call our garden home. The Hattie Carthan Garden in Bed-Stuy is home to well over fifty trees which provide clean air, sweet shade and fruit to all who visit our garden. Our garden is the home to spruces, black locusts, maple, mulberries, pears, pine, ornamental plums, peach, cherry and magnolias and more.

Earlier this summer, the bad weather caused some of our old trees to fall in the new market area, providing us with good logs for mushroom cultivation. We have two innoculating kits on hand for those who are interested in cutting and innoculating those logs with fungi. If you are interested in learning these valuable skills at Hattie’s Urban University of the Wild, please join us with your saws and tools. We need your help to keep the space tended and healthy.

A warm cider and nutritious soup will be prepared by community food educator/tree lover Yonnette Fleming. Please call 718-638-3566 or email hattiecarthangarden@yahoo.com so that we can know how much food to cook.

The Hattie Carthan Garden is located on Marcy and Lafayette Avenues. GG-Bedford Nostrand B38 to Marcy and Lafayette Aves.