Come celebrate summer at the market by getting a basket full of sweet, juicy tomatoes. Stop by the information tent to pick up lots of tomato recipes that are simple but will impress your friends and family. And one lucky Greenpointer will win a bag full of produce from the monthly raffle!
Come celebrate summer at the market by getting a basket full of sweet, juicy tomatoes. Stop by the information tent to pick up lots of tomato recipes that are simple but will impress your friends and family. And one lucky Greenpointer will win a bag full of produce from the monthly raffle!
It’s that time again! GBA‘s Last Saturdays is this week and it just keeps getting better and better!
The GBA has simplified the Greenpoint shopping experience – NO PASSPORT! Just SHOP, DRINK and DINE From 12 – 7PM on July 31st at any of the participating GBA member businesses (where you see this poster) and get great discounts and perks! Be eligible to WIN METS tickets for the August 10th Mets vs Colorado Rockies game courteous of GBA member Metro Fuel.
There’s free Black Rabbit lager for the 1st 150 folks, a shuffleboard biathalon at Diamond Bar, Word is hosting a book swap to benefit the Greenpoint Public Library and so many sales and specials it’ll make your head spin.
Check out the LONG list of participating shops, bars and restaurants!
It’s that time again! GBA‘s Last Saturdays is this week and it just keeps getting better and better!
The GBA has simplified the Greenpoint shopping experience – NO PASSPORT! Just SHOP, DRINK and DINE From 12 – 7PM on July 31st at any of the participating GBA member businesses (where you see this poster) and get great discounts and perks! Be eligible to WIN METS tickets for the August 10th Mets vs Colorado Rockies game courteous of GBA member Metro Fuel.
There’s free Black Rabbit lager for the 1st 150 folks, a shuffleboard biathalon at Diamond Bar, Word is hosting a book swap to benefit the Greenpoint Public Library and so many sales and specials it’ll make your head spin.
Check out the LONG list of participating shops, bars and restaurants!
This is some AMAZING news and quite the accomplishment for the dedicated folks involved with McCarren Tennis!
Yes, you read that correctly. The courts at McCarren Park were one of only 3 sets of public courts to be part of the “Fresh Courts” initiative sponsored by American Express and the USTA.
“For New York, American Express’ Fresh Courts program will work with tennis courts located in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. The 35-acre park services the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods and currently contains seven full-sized tennis courts, one of which was recently resurfaced through the efforts of the McCarren Tennis Association and park volunteers. As part of the Fresh Courts program, the remaining courts will be completely resurfaced and renovated, and upon project completion, McCarren Park will contain six full-sized, 78-foot courts, and two permanent 36-foot courts for the QuickStart play format.”
Read the full press release here:
http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=533I’d like to thank AMEX, USTA, Stephanie and Julia at OSA and the OSA Comm Comm, Commissioner Spiegel, Gerald Esposito and the CB1 board, Rami Metal and Stephen Levin, and the other McCarren Tennis Association members: Sean Hoess, Aron Malkine, Meng Ai, Jessica Glorieux & Monika Chmielewska. Hope I didn’t forget anyone – I’m so excited I can’t think straight.
Dan @ McCarren Tennis
I receive a lot of emails about people hoping to volunteer and clean up the neighborhood, here’s a great chance to do just that!
Playground Clean Up Day – July 31st
Saturday, July 31, 2010, 9-11am
Hosted by: Park Moms & the Open Space Alliance
Meet at your closest playground, pick up trash, weeds and help us make a better park! Come anytime, help support and make our parks beautiful!
If you would like to be a park leader, please email the Park Name and Contact info to: jessicaglorieux@gmail.com
This is some AMAZING news and quite the accomplishment for the dedicated folks involved with McCarren Tennis!
Yes, you read that correctly. The courts at McCarren Park were one of only 3 sets of public courts to be part of the “Fresh Courts” initiative sponsored by American Express and the USTA.
“For New York, American Express’ Fresh Courts program will work with tennis courts located in Brooklyn’s McCarren Park. The 35-acre park services the Greenpoint and Williamsburg neighborhoods and currently contains seven full-sized tennis courts, one of which was recently resurfaced through the efforts of the McCarren Tennis Association and park volunteers. As part of the Fresh Courts program, the remaining courts will be completely resurfaced and renovated, and upon project completion, McCarren Park will contain six full-sized, 78-foot courts, and two permanent 36-foot courts for the QuickStart play format.”
Read the full press release here:
http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=533I’d like to thank AMEX, USTA, Stephanie and Julia at OSA and the OSA Comm Comm, Commissioner Spiegel, Gerald Esposito and the CB1 board, Rami Metal and Stephen Levin, and the other McCarren Tennis Association members: Sean Hoess, Aron Malkine, Meng Ai, Jessica Glorieux & Monika Chmielewska. Hope I didn’t forget anyone – I’m so excited I can’t think straight.
Dan @ McCarren Tennis
I receive a lot of emails about people hoping to volunteer and clean up the neighborhood, here’s a great chance to do just that!
Playground Clean Up Day – July 31st
Saturday, July 31, 2010, 9-11am
Hosted by: Park Moms & the Open Space Alliance
Meet at your closest playground, pick up trash, weeds and help us make a better park! Come anytime, help support and make our parks beautiful!
If you would like to be a park leader, please email the Park Name and Contact info to: jessicaglorieux@gmail.com
I was alerted to this by The Diamond‘s newsletter and I thought it was worth passing on. While I can sympathize with people living in the immediate vicinity of a bar with a backyard, the truth is most of these spots are pretty low key. And in the case of the Diamond, the owner is absolutely correct in the fact that it’s mostly industrial near them. No one to wake up.
I’m of the opinion that bars should be able to police themselves and settle any issues with their neighbors on a case by case basis. While there are always going to be exceptions to the rule, I think most local bars aren’t having an issue with their yards. And how much will it suck to not have that al fresco drinking experience in the prime time hours? Plus, as a smoker, the ability to drink my beer and smoke my cigarette at the same time again is one thing I DO NOT want to give up. Again.
State Senator Joan Millman has introduced legislation to curb backyard and roof usage at bars and restaurants. This legislation prematurely ends your evening by enforcing mandatory close times of 10pm Sun-Thurs and 11pm Fri-Sat. It also hurts small businesses by requiring us to have waitstaff in the yard at all times.
Please demonstrate your support of NYC bars and restaurants by giving this Facebook page a thumbs up!
We disagree with the legislation as we believe that businesses should be able to police themselves and settle individual grievances with neighbors. We set our own close time out back based on the density of neighbors in our vicinity. Since much of the space behind the Diamond is non-residential warehouse, a 10pm close time is not appropriate. Enforcing this random rule on everyone is a lazy approach and does not consider the variety of unique situations.
As always, check out our webpage. We are in the midst of an overhaul and the look will be continuing to change over the coming weeks. Notice a couple new items: pictures of the bar and some sweet artwork from a good friend of ours. We have finally updated the beer list and you can even make comments on it!
The Diamond
43 Franklin Street
btwn Quay & Calyer
I was alerted to this by The Diamond‘s newsletter and I thought it was worth passing on. While I can sympathize with people living in the immediate vicinity of a bar with a backyard, the truth is most of these spots are pretty low key. And in the case of the Diamond, the owner is absolutely correct in the fact that it’s mostly industrial near them. No one to wake up.
I’m of the opinion that bars should be able to police themselves and settle any issues with their neighbors on a case by case basis. While there are always going to be exceptions to the rule, I think most local bars aren’t having an issue with their yards. And how much will it suck to not have that al fresco drinking experience in the prime time hours? Plus, as a smoker, the ability to drink my beer and smoke my cigarette at the same time again is one thing I DO NOT want to give up. Again.
State Senator Joan Millman has introduced legislation to curb backyard and roof usage at bars and restaurants. This legislation prematurely ends your evening by enforcing mandatory close times of 10pm Sun-Thurs and 11pm Fri-Sat. It also hurts small businesses by requiring us to have waitstaff in the yard at all times.
Please demonstrate your support of NYC bars and restaurants by giving this Facebook page a thumbs up!
We disagree with the legislation as we believe that businesses should be able to police themselves and settle individual grievances with neighbors. We set our own close time out back based on the density of neighbors in our vicinity. Since much of the space behind the Diamond is non-residential warehouse, a 10pm close time is not appropriate. Enforcing this random rule on everyone is a lazy approach and does not consider the variety of unique situations.
As always, check out our webpage. We are in the midst of an overhaul and the look will be continuing to change over the coming weeks. Notice a couple new items: pictures of the bar and some sweet artwork from a good friend of ours. We have finally updated the beer list and you can even make comments on it!
The Diamond
43 Franklin Street
btwn Quay & Calyer
