The Interregnum Week

2025-2026

Neighborhood Stuff

• So, these guys are buying Montero via a Delaware LLC. I understand that adding a bar where real longshoremen and sailors drank is a cute fit with their whole nautical themed restaurant portfolio, but it is vitally important that they not fuck that place up. A faux-dive version of Montero would be heartbreaking.

• The snow sculpture on Atlantic Ave of King Mindaugas by area artist Henrik Lojka (who also sculpted the busts in front of the nearby Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church) got a lot of attention over the weekend as well as some good press.

  

  To whomever stole the nose: you are why we cannot have nice things.

Fun Stuff (you probably already know what you’re doing)

• Nets v. Rockets New Year’s Day at Barclays. WWE in town next Monday,

• Clipse and Robyn at the Paramount

• NYE and NYDay at Public Records.

• ABBA cover band for NYE at The Bellhouse.

• New Year’s Day craft night at NY Resistor.

Civic Stuff

• READ 718 on Atlantic is seeking Local Literacy Volunteers.

  READ 718 provides tutoring and literacy workshops for low-income students in grades 3-8. They are looking for reliable, caring, positive people who can commit to working with a child virtually twice a week for 10-20 weeks via Zoom, excluding national holidays. Tutors are provided training, simple lesson plans for each session, and access to reading specialists and literacy educators for guidance.

• You can mulch your tree at Fort Greene or Cobble Hill parks if you really want to make sure your tree waste stays local. Alternatively, huck it on the curb.

• The HRA Refugee & Immigrant Service Center is Moving Effective January 20. Communicating the move from the current location (32-20 Northern Blvd in Queens) to Downtown Brooklyn (25 Chapel St, 6th Floor, the building where that Labcorp and the traffic cops are) will likely require help from neighbors for the message to reach people seeking services. I still occasionally have to redirect someone lost on Schermerhorn to 785 Atlantic.

• 2026 Hoyt Open Street Feedback Survey Help out the Atlantic Avenue BID with feedback on the Hoyt Open Streets as they prepare for 2026.

• Get ready to clear out your mailboxes more frequently: 2026 is shaping up be just as politically contentious as 2025 was, if more dispersed among races all over the city and at all levels of government. We may even need a special election for Borough President depending on the NY 7th congressional race.

Transit Stuff

• Trains look surprisingly normal, probably due to maintenance staff being on vacation.

• We’re in freeze-melt-refreeze territory for the next week: just be careful out there.