The Week

January 5

Neighborhood Stuff

• Update on the “older sister” to Ingas Bar in process on Bond & Pacific. The restaurant will be incorporating the entire footprint formerly occupied by the Cafe Kitsune coffee shop, retail space, and bar. Lots of outdoor seating too!

  

• The building housing Eastville Comedy is up for sale. Catch a feature or open mic while you can!

• Lots of news making the rounds about businesses closing, a reminder to support the people who make a neighborhood what it is. Dvir of Dvir Salon has now been cutting hair for 20 years in Brooklyn.

• These guys are moving up from Industry City to fill the Colonie void on Atlantic.

• Reopening Hank’s Saloon will cost you at minimum $4.7 million.

Fun Stuff

• Tonight is trivia night at the Brazen Head, 7:30pm. Happy hour 4-7.

• Nothing public at the Paramount until An Evening with Annie Leibovitz on the 13th.

• Winter programming for kids is open at the Dodge YMCA. Spots still available!

• WWE RAW tonight and the Nets host the Magic and Clippers this week at Barclays. Saturday night is the WBC Super Lightweight title fight. Ringside seats still available for $$$.

• Unsolicited* Recommendation: if you’re reading this yet not already reading Rob Stephenson’s The Neighborhoods, you should check it out.

• A drinking game/live reading of Legally Blonde at The Bellhouse on Friday.

• For shiftless teens: video game and lofi relax/study events at the Pacific Library.

• Happy hour is still 5-7 at Grand Army.

Civic Stuff

• The Department of Small Business Services is hosting a day of networking and support services at the Barclays Center on January 14 from 9-5 for small business owners seeking to do business with the City of New York. RSVP here.

• Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) is seeking public comment on key aspects of the redevelopment of Atlantic Yards to help inform the development plan. Feedback due by the 16th, I’m sure it will be considered wholeheartedly. ESD is also hosting its third public workshop on the Atlantic Yards Redevelopment, featuring a presentation by ESD and the development team followed by a public Q&A. Register here.

• The Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ) seeks to develop the City’s first comprehensive Environmental Justice Plan, they have launched a short survey to hear about citizen’s environmental justice concerns in their local communities. I’ll give you an idea to get started: electrical fires bursting out of manholes.

Transit Stuff

• The train is $3 now, reduced fare is $1.50. The bus, Metro-North, and LIRR are all more expensive as of the new year.

• Monday-Friday the overnight (11:30-5:00am) 2 will not be running between Chambers and Atlantic-Barclays. This weekend the 2 won’t come our way at all past Chambers. The 3 won’t be running at all overnight until next Monday at 5:00am.

• The A and C are going to be messy this weekend. Lots of express to local and vice-versa, and no C stop at High Street all weekend.

• No overnight G between Bedford-Nostrand and Church this weekend.

*there are no solicited recommendations.