Mailboxes of Park Slope

As many of you now know, Mailboxes of Park Slope has shut down.  If you had a box there and are looking to retrieve your mail, then the next and last opportunity to do so is this Saturday November 1st from 9am -12pm at the Adelphi Post Office located at 950 Fulton Street (cornder of Fulton and Cambridge Place).

Nets Hemorrhaging Dollars

Via Realgm.com

The Daily News reports that Bruce Ratner recently explored selling the Brooklyn bound Nets basketball team because the franchise “hemorrhaging Dollars.”

Is this really the kind of operation we want coming to Brooklyn?

Jump here for the article

Steal Back Your Vote

The Fort Greene Film Society; Raw Fusion NYC; Rare Form; KeiStar Productions; Herbert Holler; Wonderwax; Kilo International; Fusicology; Diamond Girl; Liquid Sound Lounge

Would like to invite you to a critical film screening (and afterparty)

An opportunity to learn more about how they are planning to steal the
election (again)!

We’ll be screening 2 documentary films on the topic:

“Steal Back Your Vote”

by Greg Palast (BBC) & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

http://www.gregpalast.com/sbyv/

and “Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections”

http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/

Followed by a reception/social information session

With the city’s favorite DJs: Spinna, Moni, Herbert Holler, Scribe,
Blu Jemz

and surprise guests!

Get your own copy of the “Steal Back Your Vote” comic book guide for
free!

Doors open at 8:30PM

Screening starts at 9:00PM

Tribeca Grand Screening Room

Reception in the lounge

** This Event Is FREE! **

Did you know…

In the 2004 election:

-Over three million votes cast were not counted at all

-Over half a million absentee ballots were received but not counted

-Black voters absentee ballots were over 3 times more likely to be
rejected than White voters’

-Black voters votes were 9 times more likely not to be counted overall

-Latino voters votes were 5 times more likely not to be counted

Subsequently, using new regulations developed under Bush’s “Help
America Vote Act”:

-California rejected 40% of all new voter registrations in 2006

-The GOP Secretary of State of Florida plans to drop 85,000,
predominantly African-American, voters from the rolls before this
election.

-The former GOP Secretary of State of Colorado dropped almost 20% of
all registered voters from the state’s voter rolls. that’s one out of
every five. Now she’s the Chairman of the US Election Assistance
Commission for the entire country!

What you can do:

-Come to this event, see the screening, tell your friends (especially
press, “celebs” who will lend visibility to the issue, and anyone
with an audience to share the info with)

-Go to http://www.stealbackyourvote.com to find out more

Not Eating Out in NY

Neighborbeeblog recently ran a feature on Cathy Erway.  Erway is a blogger living in Crown Heights who is currently writing a memoir chronicling her dedication to eating in in New York.  Her blog, Not Eating Out in NY (NEOINY) features recipes and other musings about her experiences cutting down on consumption while eating more.  Jump here for the profile and here for NEOINY

Brownstoner’s 50 Most Influential Brooklynites

Brownstoner is rolling out their list of the 50 Most influential Brooklynites this week.  They’re 2/3 of the way there and haven’t cited us yet, so we’re rather excited here at Crown Heights Blog because it means we’re moving on up.  Jump here for 21-30

Umoja

Legacy Awards: Food and Clothing Drive for Haiti

Legacy Awards

Legacy Awards & 511 Films
Relief for Haiti!
Clothing, Shoes, Non-perishable food and bottled water accepted
at
Legacy Awards
October 21st-October 25th
10:30am-6:00pm

Greetings!
In the aftermath of the tropical storms that Haiti experienced in the past few months, hundreds of people are dead and thousands left homeless. Haiti is almost deforested and the land is incapable of absorbing the torrential rains.  In many parts of Haiti, food and shelter are sparse and have left people on the brink of starvation, eating mudcakes in hopes for sustenance.

Legacy Awards and 511 Films are collecting clothing, shoes, non perishable foods and bottled water in hopes of providing some form of relief to our brothers and sisters in need.

Items will be accepted at
Legacy Awards,
October 21, 2008-October 25, 2008
Tues-Sat from 10:30am-6:00pm.
Let us take the time to lift up our brothers and sisters in Haiti!

“Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.  For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.”
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Eklezyas – Liv Filozòf la 4:9-10:
9Lè ou gen yon lòt moun avèk ou, li pi bon pase lè ou pou kont ou, paske ansanm nou bay pi bon rannman nan travay nou.     10Si yonn tonbe, lòt la va ba l’ men pou l’ leve. Men, malè pou moun k’ap viv pou kont li! Si l’ tonbe, p’ap gen moun pou ba l’ men.
Good Times Barber Shop

sponsors the
Unity for Haiti Relief Concert
October 26, 2008 at 6:00pm
at the
Cortelyou Road Church of God
1085 Flatbush Ave Brooklyn, N.Y. 11226
Bring your family, friends and donations for Haiti and enjoy this FREE concert!

Prospect Place

Panamanian Day Parade

IMG_1567

Originally uploaded by ultraclay!

ultra clay dot com posted an entry from Saturday’s Panamanian Day Parade. Jump here for more on the parade and go here for more photos

Book Court Expands

Maybe Crown Heights will have our own independent bookstore one day.  Until then, BookCourt in Cobble Hill is a great option to have.  Brownstoner posted an entry today about their expansion.   Jump here for BookCourt’s website