The Week
June 1
Neighborhood Stuff
Someone needs to start a business in the recently vacated Citizens Bank space at Bond and Atlantic. It’ll run you $18,500 per month1, so make sure that pro forma is buttoned up.
Official review of Lonnies: good. They’re still finding their footing (host stand is gonna move outside, right?), but clearly this will be a neighborhood institution. Lunch, brunch, and outdoor tables are all in process.
millions goods is bringing their shop/bar/vinyl concept to 201 Dekalb over by Fort Greene park. No word on if they’ll be serving thoughtful cocktails and playing lofi Japanese jazz during the next Soul Summit.
Over 10,000 signatures on this petition for the Alamo Drafthouse to reinstate their no phones policy. Sony is fumbling this so badly—the first movie studio to own a theater chain since 1948 and they can’t capitalize.
I was going to do a summary of all the new construction projects that I’d reported here, but Downtown Brooklyn Partnership put out this handy graphic. They still missed a few.
On Friday I posted some places in the neighborhood to go watch sports behind a paywall, and then emailed it for free to the subscriber list2. Apologies for multiple emails, I’m also annoyed. Substack is working on a “subscribe wall” feature that I’ll use to keep Bulletins free while discouraging content scraping by the enterprising and lazy. Notes on paid Boerum Bulletin content:
This weekly newsletter will always be free.
I won’t do any sponsored content, ever.
I’m glad people are using the classifieds, and it will stay free for my neighbors, but it has required slightly more attention than anticipated. I turned payments on to cover the domain, hosting fees, and to justify playing local newsman when I should be doing profitable, less-fun things.
If any content goes behind a paywall, it’ll be something that I’d be willing to pay for myself. At the very least, I’ll be talking a level of shit that I know is irresponsible.
Fun Stuff
Knicks v. Spurs. Wednesday at 8:30 PM on ABC.
You’ll have enough time before tipoff to catch Watching the Watchers: Surveillance, Power, and the Fight for Accountability at the Center for Brooklyn History. If you’re planning on saying anything negative about the Knicks owner in the vicinity of his MSG surveillance apparatus, you should check this one out.
The Brooklyn Greek Festival is running all week at Saints Constantine and Helen Cathedral on Schermerhorn. No church does fundraisers quite like the Greek Orthodox, and they know it. Here’s the menu:
The city has a portal to find free and cheap things to do this summer for the young and young at heart.
Repair your broken items! Repair Cafe at NYC Resistor. Hell yea. On June 13, you can attend their annual party and fundraiser. The theme of the interactive show? Machine Yearning.
Liberty at Barclays this week, Martin Garrix at Barclays thrice next week.
Events at Roulette every night this week.
Brooklyn Art Supply Swap on June 13 from Noon - 4:00pm. The Borough President’s office, Brooklyn Creative Reuse, the Community Board, et. al. are organizing an art supply swap at Borough Hall. Donate, exchange, or snag some gently used art supplies. All are welcome to participate: bring unwanted but usable supplies, and take some home for free.
The “new adult” book club at the Pacific Library is reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith.
Civic Stuff
We need a currently unemployed diplomat with a decades-long tenure at State to come in and resolve the beef between Charles Oakley and James Dolan before the first finals game at MSG. Please.
Fill out this form to tell arborists from Trees New York about a tree bed that needs expansion and/or repair. CM Restler’s staff is especially focused on beds near public spaces (schools, parks, playgrounds, libraries, etc).
If you prefer to get your hands dirty check out the Boerum Hill Green Team, a group of volunteers who are watering, weeding, cleaning, and planting in the tree beds. Contact them at: boerumhillgreenteam@gmail.com
The Community Board for Brooklyn Community District 2 is very organized, especially compared to other community boards. I suspect this is due in large part to District Manager Taya Muller. If you want more info about what is going on in the district or want to attend some meetings, subscribe to their weekly newsletter and check out their calendar.
Transit Stuff
Tonight from 10:30 PM to Tuesday at 5:00 AM: no G between Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Church. Trains will only run every 20 minutes between Bedford/Nostrand and Hoyt-Schermerhorn.
Tonight from 10:30 PM to Tuesday at 5:00 AM: no F between Jay St-MetroTech and 4 Av/9 St.
Tuesday to Friday 11:30 PM to 5:00 AM: No 4 between Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall and New Lots.
No G this weekend between Bedford/Nostrand and Court Square. Friday 9:45 PM until Monday at 5:00 AM.
All day Saturday and Sunday, the Coney Island-bound D runs local from DeKalb to 36th St.
All day Saturday and Sunday, the Coney Island-bound N runs local from DeKalb to 59th St.
All day Saturday and Sunday the 2/3 is only running every 12 minutes.
When commercial rents are pricing out banks, it’s a problem.
Most of them at least. I deleted “newsletterhoneypot@nymag” before I sent it out. Whoever you are, that degree of shamelessness can take you far. Until—one day—it suddenly won’t.
