Eat Pie and Shop at PS29

On Sunday December 8th, PS 29 is hosting its fifth annual Eat Pie and Shop holiday event. It's a pie social, celebrity-judged pie contest, artisan gift fair, professional portrait studio and children's activity (face painting, kids' choice pie contest, batiking) wrapped into one awesome family event.  

Eat Pie & Shop @ PS29

Sunday December 8, 11am - 4pm

425 Henry Street, between Baltic and Kane

www.eatpieandshop.org

• Pie Social: Taste delicious homemade and premium pies for $5 a slice or 5 for $20. Both sweet and salty options, so come for lunch and desert. Plus frozen custard from Shake Shack. 
• Celebrity-judged pie contest:  At 1pm, Gail Simmons, judge of “Top Chef,” Melissa Clark, food columnist for the New York Times and other kitchen pros will name the best pie of the pie contest. Come toast the winner and taste the winning pie. 
• Artisan Holiday Gift Fair: Take care of your holiday shopping while the kids do crafts. More than 30 vendors from Brooklyn flea markets will be displaying and selling their handmade goods, including jewelry, clothing and beautiful paper products as well as books and classic toys from fork + pencil.
• Children's Crafts and Activities: Face painting, glitter tattoos, batiking and a Kids Choice pie contest of kid baked pies. Your kids will have a blast!
• Professional Portrait Studio: You can get a beautiful portrait of your child/children taken during the event. $30 for one high-resolution image which you can print, email, gift to grandparents, etc. 
• Toys for Tots:  U.S. Marines will be on hand to pick up all donations of holiday gifts. 

All proceeds go to PS 29 programs. For more information, contact ps29eatpieandshop@gmail.com or visit www.eatpieandshop.org.

Transforming Health Care in Brooklyn Town Hall 11/19 @ 6pm

With the ongoing efforts to save our vitally important local hospital, we are happy to share news of a Brooklyn Law School Town Hall Meeting entitled "Transforming Health Care in Brooklyn." The event is free and open to the public and could offer valuable insight for the #SaveLICH fight. See the flyer below from Karen Porter, Associate Professor of Clinical Law.

Atlantic Avenue Tree Lighting, Dec 3rd @ 6pm

Come join the Atlantic Avenue local development corporation's annual holiday tree lighting party. It will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 from 6-8PM at the Belarusian Church, 401 Atlantic Avenue. Full details in the flyer below.

Senator Squadron Town Hall, Monday Nov 18th @ 7:30pm

Next week, local State Senator Dan Squadron is holding another Community Convention that enables residents of our district to help shape his priorities at home and in Albany.

With a new mayoral administration on the horizon, there is an exciting opportunity for true change. Come out now and make sure its the change you want to see.

7:30PM to 8:30PM
Brooklyn Law School - Geraldo's Cafe, Feil Hall
205 State Street (between Court Street and Boerum Place)

RSVP by emailing squadron@nysenate.gov (please indicate which town hall you'll attend).

Pumpkin art gets some serious press

The beloved Jane Greengold Halloween art exhibit that is on display in Cobble Hill has not only caught the eye of local trick-or-treaters but also from the Wall Street Journal. Columnist Jackie Bischof quoted locals about the installation. Excerpts are copied below, as is the link to the full article.

"She takes what seems like a simple thing anyone can do and she elevates it to a higher level," said Dave Paco Abraham, vice president of the Cobble Hill Association....

Michelle Mannix, co-owner of nearby restaurant Ted & Honey, said Ms. Greengold's work is a must-see for a neighborhood that treats Halloween "like New Orleans treats Mardi Gras....Cobble Hill takes Halloween very seriously," said Ms. Mannix.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304073204579167801662345392

The always intriguing blog Lost City also wrote up a story, and contributed a pumpkin, for the display. Check out that article in full right here.
http://lostnewyorkcity.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-pumpkins-go-up-one-last-time-in.html

Halloween Parade, today @ 4pm!

Come one, come all to the 2013 Cobble Hill Halloween Parade. Meet at Cobble Hill park, parade around the neighborhood, & join the fun!

Cobble Hill Association 2013 Fall General Meeting

YOU’RE INVITED TO THE COBBLE HILL ASSOCIATION FALL, 2013 GENERAL MEETING!

Long Island College Hospital Update:
Where are we now?
A report to the community on what we know.
* Legal actions

* Timeline

* Possible Outcomes

Participants:
Toomas Sorra, MD, Concerned Physicians of LICH,
New York State Nurses Association and Local elected Officials
Jim Walden and Adam Cohen Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP,
Dr. Jon Berall, the court appointed "LICH Watchdog"

General Meeting: 7:30 PM
Date: Monday, October 28, 2013
Place: Cobble Hill Health Center,
Main Entrance: 380 Henry Street

Refreshments will be provided courtesy of Ted & Honey Cafe

UPDATE: Below is video of lawyer Jim Walden's message to standing room only audience at tonight's meeting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfCNUP_GNq8#t=95

Halloween-themed Save LICH rally

The Cobble Hill Halloween Parade is October 31st, but there's a chance to give your Halloween outfit a pre-holiday test drive with word from Brad Kerr, one of many locals fighting hard to keep our hospital open.

Halloween is scary. But it’s even scarier to lose your neighborhood hospital. This Saturday, join our Halloween-themed rally to protest Governor Cuomo’s truly frightening plan to close LICH.  Meet at the LICH playground at 10:30 a.m. — and dress up as a ghost or another scary thing that might happen if Cuomo succeeds and we lose LICH. 

WHEN: Saturday, October 19th
TIME: 10:30 a.m. – Noon
WHERE: LICH Playground
ADDRESS: Henry Street between Amity and Pacific

A lot of people aren’t sure what’s happening now with LICH. The good news is LICH is open for care, despite Governor Cuomo’s best efforts to close the hospital and sell the land for condos. Two court cases plus a lot of community and political pressure are keeping the hospital open.

But right now there is no operator to run the hospital in the future, because Cuomo wants to close it, and we need to keep up the pressure until a new operator is found. That’s why you should come to the Halloween-themed rally this Saturday, and forward this email to all of your neighborhood friends — we are winning and with your support we won’t lose our hospital.

Halloween Impalements—the Final Year!

The Cobble Hill Parade through the park is not the only Halloween tradition in our neighborhood. For years Jane Greengold has also made a site-specific, holiday themed public art display called Impalements. 

She writes

For years, with the help of friends and family, I have impaled 100 pumpkins on the spikes of the iron fence on the corner of Kane and Strong in Cobble Hill for Halloween. Every pumpkin is unique. The impaled pumpkins are left for months, to age as nature commands, into gnarly remnants of themselves.

This will be my last version of Impalements at this location. Next year, it may appear at a new location. Please join in for this final year, and help impale the most heads ever. Everyone can bring a head. There are 274 spikes so there is room for a lot of participation.

To join in choose the right size and kind of pumpkin – 4 ¾” - 5” inches in diameter, taller than it is round, and soft enough to carve; LEAVE THE TOP ON; cut a 3/4” square hole in the middle of the bottom (for the spike); carve a face; remove the innards of the pumpkin through the facial features; and bring the carved pumpkin to the corner of Kane and Strong between 3 pm and 7 pm on October 31, 2013. We will impale it!

Smith Street's 4th annual Festivale des Soupes

SMITH STREET’S 4th ANNUAL FESTIVALE DES SOUPES
Saturday, 10/19/13, 1-4pm

It's a "Soup Crawl" for a very good cause. The South Brooklyn LDC shares this fundraiser with a culinary arts program at local public high school, the School for International Studies. Unlike most courses where a textbook or two is the semester expense, in this case it is food... and these raw ingredients are costly. The Soup Crawl helps local students afford these expenses.

FOR YOUR TASTING PLEASURE -- 4 OZ SOUP SAMPLES ARE FROM:
Lunetta, Bar Tabac, Coco Roco, Cibao, Ceol, Hop Hap Thai Restaurant, Hunter’s, The H.S. for Int’l Studies, Stinky Brooklyn, Angry Wades, Pazzi Pasta, Jolie Cantina, Peoples Republic of Brooklyn, Shelsky’s Smoked Fish, Bombay Dream, Provence En Boite, Dassara Ramen, Cubana Café, Savoia, , VIP Thai, Zaytoons, Etons, The Jakewalk, Kittery, Seersucker/Nightingale9, Avlee Greek Cusiine

Listed in the order of a walk from Atlantic Avenue to 2nd Street.

A panel of Celebrity Judges will rate the soups and award Gold, Silver, and Bronze Ladles in three categories - Veggie, Meat/Chicken, & Fish/Seafood based. Compare your palate against theirs . Help us to give soup the respect it is due on the menus of New York!!

Purchase Tasting tickets from the High School students at tables on the corners of Smith & Bergen, Butler, and President Street starting at 1PM. Each ticket entitles you to a 4 oz tasting at the restaurants of your choice from the list above. F or G Train to Bergen or Carroll Street .

$5.00 for a 5 Tasting sampler.
$10.00 Couples/Gourmets for 12 Tastings,
$20.00 for Families - 25 Tastings.
www.smithstreetbk.com

Get Ready! Cobble Hill Halloween Parade 2013 is coming.

Calling all ghouls, ghosts and goblins!
the Cobble Hill Halloween Parade will be Thursday October 31st
TIME: 4:00PM
DATE: Thursday, October 31st
PLACE: Cobble Hill Park
MUSIC: Jah Pan Steel Drum Band

Bring noisemakers to help the Jah Pan Steel Drum band ring in Cobble Hill Halloween, and check out this video montage of photos from years past.

We need a crew of volunteers to help set up at 11AM and then another group of volunteers to help clean up at 8:00PM on the day of the parade. If you would like to volunteer to help, please email us at cobblehillassociation@gmail.com

Thank you to 76th Precinct Captain Schiff

For more than a year, Cobble Hill's safety has been in the hands of NYPD veteran, Deputy Inspector Jeffrey Schiff. Yesterday he passed along word of his reassignment to Queens' 106th precinct and we thank him for his service. Please read his message below in full and also be sure to soon welcome our new head of the precinct, Captain Justin Lenz.
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Dear Friends:

After an extremely productive year and a half as the Commanding Officer of the 76th Precinct, I must inform you all that I have been transferred from the 76th Precinct to the 106th Precinct located in Howard Beach/Ozone Park Queens effective midnight tonight. Being the Commanding Officer of this precinct since April 2012 was a wonderful and exciting experience for me, one that I shall never forget!

I feel privileged and honored to have served with the hard working men and woman of the innovative 76th Precinct. I also feel privileged and honored to have known so many people who obviously care about their community as evidenced by the great number of notable arrests that were affected because of direct community intervention, the number of Auxiliary volunteers that report to the precinct each day to help out with various needs and events of the community, and the number of Youth Explores that volunteer their time working in the community. Through this police-community cooperation, we were often able to arrest those persons who were responsible for burglary patterns, car break-in patterns, and those who committed violent crimes in our community.