It's actually on 11th street between 3rd Avenue and 4th Avenue. It's a pretty block....both of those houses were renovated and painted within the past 4 years. They did a really nice job on both. The yellow house used to have the fattest, biggest cat I've ever seen...his name was Boss and he was the sweetest thing. I miss that block!

Posted by: SBK at December 9, 2008 6:16 PM in response to Tuesday Blogwrap

The name of the free car service is called Right Rides.

www.rightrides.org

"RightRides organizes volunteers to operate a fleet of up to 6 cars that are donated by Zipcar. Driving Teams can only drive women, transpeople and gender queer individuals home. RightRides is currently available every Saturday night from Midnight - 3 AM late night Saturdays (aka early Sunday morning)."

It's a great service, I wish more people knew it existed. They are always looking for volunteers and donations to sustain the service, since it's free.

Posted by: SBK at December 8, 2008 12:12 PM in response to Violent Mugging on South Elliott Place

Wait, didn't there used to be a Dee&Dee on 5th Avenue around 13th or 14th streets a few years ago? Maybe I'm losing my mind....

Posted by: SBK at November 11, 2008 3:38 PM in response to Streetlevel: Closeout Shop for the Slope

Voted at PS 56 in Clinton Hill this morning....the line was wrapped all the way around the block at 8:45 when we got there. It took an hour to vote, but everyone was in good spirits and the people at Choice Market were handing out cookies and cakes to everyone on line. It went surprisingly smooth once we made it inside the building. Definitely worth the time and effort!

Posted by: SBK at November 4, 2008 11:16 AM in response to Long Lines, Everywhere

101wins has an updated article that says it was the barbershop at 692 Fulton but they're investigating two locations:

Five Shot, One Fatally, at Brooklyn Barbershop

NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Five people have been shot, one fatally, at a barbershop in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn.

The shootings occurred Monday afternoon, authorities said.

Police and EMS are on the scene at two locations located at 692 Fulton Street.

There are unconfirmed reports that an off-duty police officer was is among the wounded.

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Posted by: SBK at October 27, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Breaking: Shooting in Fort Greene

This is on 10th street between 3rd and 4th, right across from the MTA yard under the 9th street station...I lived around the corner from here for 6 years, so I walked past this house every single day. The house is owned by a little old man who is a Vietnam War vet. He lives in the house alone and has the fattest, nastiest Jack Russell Terrier that I've ever encountered.

His front yard is a constant work in progress - he was out there everyday adding new "pieces", sweeping, pruning his half-dead bush. Despite how it looks in the picture, he would actually go through it quite frequently and remove older pieces that had faded or been blown apart by the wind/weather. I think he just refuses to throw anything away - pack rat mentality or something. He would tie pieces of used tinfoil around the bushes, like tinsel. He would cut up empty dog treat bags and put them on top of each spike on the fence. There are tons of empty prune juice bottles laying around. There was an entire shrine devoted to pictures cut out of magazines of attractive female celebrities with their dogs at one point in time. Plenty of Jesus statues/pictures/figurines as well.

He's not the friendliest guy on the block, but it was always interesting to look at, to say the least. I always wondered what the inside of his house must look like....

Posted by: SBK at October 23, 2008 1:16 PM in response to Wednesday Blogwrap