Tuesday Links
Voices From the Boroughs: Bay Ridge [NY Times] Photo: Bloomberg Bakes at Cakeman Raven [NY Times] Tish James’ Republican Opponent for Council [NY Times] Beat-trial defense blames Orthodox rivals [NY Post] Housing honcho beats corruption rap [NY Post] Crown Heights Woman Monitors Leaves [NY Daily News] Fixers Collective Meets Weekly in Gowanus [NY Daily News]…
Voices From the Boroughs: Bay Ridge [NY Times]
Photo: Bloomberg Bakes at Cakeman Raven [NY Times]
Tish James’ Republican Opponent for Council [NY Times]
Beat-trial defense blames Orthodox rivals [NY Post]
Housing honcho beats corruption rap [NY Post]
Crown Heights Woman Monitors Leaves [NY Daily News]
Fixers Collective Meets Weekly in Gowanus [NY Daily News]
Photo by emilyshu
If anyone wants cakes better than Cakeman Raven’s, at better prices, I have someone for you. Her prices and her cakes, including her Red Velvet cakes, are amazing. She is also an excellent caterer, and a lovely person. She’s located in Canarsie, but it’s worth the trip, and delivery arrangements could possibly be made, especially for a large order.
Lucy’s Cakes and Catering
1033 East 92nd St.
Brooklyn
718-493-9198
Tell her the folks at the Crown Heights North Association sent you.
I think it’s because of the ACORN connection and the CBA. I haven’t bothered to check to see if FCR has actually funded the WFP directly.
Ah. Thanks babs. I didn’t realize WFP was supporting Atlantic Yards.
Actually, I may only have to write-in for City Council (40th district). I think the Green Party has people for all the others.
I don’t think Tish wants the WFP endorsement, considering their support of Atlantic Yards and their relationship to ACORN. If not for their AY support I would vote for their candidates but purely because of that I’m not, including Bill Thompson and Bill DiBlasio. I know I will continue my only once broken (Obama) string of never voting for a winning candidate but isn’t that part of what it’s about? This is the only time I may actually have to resort to write-ins however as all the candidates pretty much disgust me in one way or another.
Anyone know why Tish James was listed only on the Democratic line, not Working Party? I thought she was first elected as Working Party? Thompson, De Blasio, Liu, Hynes, were all listed on both.
Cakeman Raven (featured in piece on Bloomberg baking a cake) needs to focus less on his tireless, narcissistic, celebrity-obsessed self-promotion and more on running a business. I love his cake, got my wedding cake there, but that place is so badly run it’s a joke. Recently a friend of mine spent a month simply trying to place an order for a cake. It’s her favorite cake, she wanted it for her birthday, and they literally would not take her order. It was Kafkaesque. You can’t actually talk to anybody when you place an order, you call up and are told to leave a message and somebody will call you back. Only nobody does. She did that a few times then went there in person. She left her order with a guy who promised to personally bring the order to the place where the cakes are baked in another location. Then when my friend called to follow up closer to her birthday it turned out the guy never did that and the order was never placed. Is Cakeman Raven really so successful one has to beg him to take some money? Somehow I doubt it; I read last year some former employees sued him for not paying salary or overtime or something.
Joe, as much as I love my new home in Brooklyn, Manhattan is still the Center of the Universe, without which Brooklyn would not exist in its current state.
Posted by: daveinbedstuy at November 3, 2009 8:56 AM
Yeah but I didn’t say “Brooklyn is better” I said “manhattan is a borough.” Many people, some of whom have lived in Manhattan for years do not know/believe that Manhattan is a borough. Obviously Manhattan is where most Brooklynites make their living but it is a borough and a county, not a “city” as it was was before it gobbled up the other boroughs.
Joe, as much as I love my new home in Brooklyn, Manhattan is still the Center of the Universe, without which Brooklyn would not exist in its current state.