Weekday Events
Home Buying for Hipsters Home Buying for Hipsters is back. Attend the meeting for free home buying 101 information as well as a lively discussion about the current state of the housing market. Speakers include Eve Levine, licensed real estate agent, Rob Slifer, mortgage broker, and Matt Rogers, real estate attorney. Wednesday, January 28. 6-8…
Home Buying for Hipsters
Home Buying for Hipsters is back. Attend the meeting for free home buying 101 information as well as a lively discussion about the current state of the housing market. Speakers include Eve Levine, licensed real estate agent, Rob Slifer, mortgage broker, and Matt Rogers, real estate attorney.
Wednesday, January 28. 6-8 p.m. Free. The Gibson, 108 Bedford Avenue.
MTA Budget Hearing
We all know about the proposed cuts and fare hikes the MTA has planned. Attend the MTA budget hearing and get a chance to voice your views. If the budget cuts go into effect, the B23, B25, B37, B39, B51, and B75 buses and the Z train will be eliminated. The hearing is open to the public.
Wednesday, January 28. 6-9 p.m. New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams Street.
Brooklyn Bridge Park Meeting
The Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation (BBPDC) has announced that it will release its revised cost and revenue projections. This meeting will discuss this information along with other concerns.
Thursday, January 29. 6 p.m. Dibner Auditorium at NYU-Polytechnic University, 5 Metrotech Center.
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Public Hearing on Dock Street Project
Recently, Community Board 2 voted to approve the Dock Street project. However, not all that was promised will happen. So express your opposition to this project at Marty Markowitz’s public hearing.
Tuesday, January 27. 4-9 p.m. Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon Street.
13th Annual Plant-O-Rama
Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Metro Hort Group present the 13th Annual Plant-O-Rama, a horticultural trade show which features the Northeast’s leading specialty nurseries, wholesale growers of unusual plants, and garden suppliers. There will be lectures, panel discussions, and home catalogs from native and ornamental seed and plant growers to take home. The event is free for MHG members, BBG staff, and BBG volunteers, while others are $40.
Tuesday, January 27. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue.
‘Sponge Park’ Presentation
The Boerum Hill Association will hear a presentation from landscape architect Susannah Drake on the Sponge Park, which is expected to result in a cleaner and more pleasant environment along the Gowanus Canal. The park would use water remediation strategies to reduce storm water runoff into the canal.
Tuesday, January 27. 7 p.m. Belarusian Church, 401 Atlantic Avenue.
Clinton Hill Karaoke Night
Two blogs, Clinton Hill Blog and Clinton Hill Chill, have set up a karaoke night for people to meet fellow readers and neighbors.
Wednesday, January 28. 7:30 p.m. Mirrors on Grand, 284 Grand Avenue.
New York State Bar Association Panel Discussion
The New York State Bar Association will assemble a panel of real estate, legal and economic experts to discuss “The State, Federal and Title Industry Response to the Subprime Mortgage Crisis” and “Rights and Remedies on Defaults in Single Family Residential Contracts of Sale.”
Thursday, January 29. 8:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. New York Marriott Marquis Hotel in the Empire Room (7th Floor), 1535 Broadway.
Mmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmm! The MTA people are so COOL and smart! What a together organization! I’ve decided to bring a bouquet of flowers to the fun meeting on Wednesday.
Yes, wine lover, we know….
we know there aren’t hipsters in Brooklyn, just posers.
settle down people. apparently, the home buying for hipsters series is really really good and helpful. the name is totally tongue in cheek anyway.
wow, humorless and negative – is this curbed??
I’m so glad to see that I am not the only person who considers “hipster” to be an insult. It means a vapid wanna-be who desperately takes on the outter trappings of a cool, artsy, intellectual–but who is actually none of those things.
I’d be more likely to attend an event called “Home Buying for Idiots”
BRG, do you have the meeting details?
Next weeks seminar:
‘Home Buying for Bitter Renters’
“Recently, Community Board 2 voted to approve the Dock Street project. However, not all that was promised will happen.” Are we missing a sentence or two here? What promise is not happening?
I clicked through to the Cobble Hill Association thread and didn’t see any more information there. Comparing the bulkheads on top of the building behind the old Independence Savings Bank building and the school proposed for Dock Street seems like apples and oranges to me. For one, the city has already put $40M in the budget for the school. Municipalities don’t tie up that kind of money as a bluff.
…and that rendering on the Cobble Hill site looks bogus.
Rob, agreed. Something called “First-time homebuying” would be much more appealing. Nonetheless, I think it could be useful. As someone who’s never bought before, I have a lot of questions about the process.