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NEWSMAN’S HOME HIT BY GRAFFITI VANDALS Just a few months after riffing on a local cash-checking store that did nothing to remove graffiti from it’s outside walls, vandals struck the Newsman’s home in Carroll Gardens. The vandals struck late at night and while I slept. They used thick magic markers to deface the inside front doors, which are usually unlocked. It’s a vestibule with mailboxes and two additional doors lead into the hallway to the four apartments in the brownstone. They didn’t try to break in. It appears as if they were just going around the neighborhood and splattering their graffiti on easy targets. The graffiti was easily removed, but it’s that sense of being violated that really gets to me. Right under my nose, in my own house and while I slept, some punks were just feet away from my bed intruding on my privacy. YANKEES PITCHER GETS DRUNK AND STUPID IN CARROLL GARDENS A waitress at the Red Room in Carroll Gardens didn’t want anything to do with the guy who said he was a New York Yankee. The 6’4 patron told everyone who was within listening range that HE was Steve Karsay, the $5,000,000 a year relief pitcher for the Yankees. He was even wearing a Yankees hat and offering up free tickets to a guy who would hook him up with the waitress. The Karsay look-alike even used such great pick up lines as: “kiss me I’m a Yankee.” The guy was hanging out with two friends, one of whom said he was Karsay’s lawyer and the other who claimed to be the son of the pitchers agent. He quietly left the bar and was last seen running down the middle of Court street trying to flag down cars and presumably telling anyone who would listen: “I’m a New York Yankee.” Karsay, by the way, often hangs out in Carroll Gardens at another nearby watering hole, PJ Hanley’s on Court Street. He’s also on the Yankees disabled list after hurting his shoulder.
Despite a valiant effort by local residents, Mayor Bloomberg followed through with his threat to close Engine Company 204 on Degraw Street. Several people were arrested during a protest on Sunday to keep city crews from taking the fire engine and all it’s firehouse equipment away. Actor Steve Bucemi, some local politicians and a handful of neighborhood activist tried blocking the firehouse doors, but to no avail. Later that day, city crews removed equipment and posted signs marking the demise of the over 100 year old single engine firehouse. Less than a mile away, residents in Park Slope are trying to save Brooklyn’s Propsect park zoo. The mayor doesn’t plan on closing the zoo, just eliminating the city portion of the funding, which is millions of dollars. Without it, the zoo will likely close. The zoo in Queens is also targeted. Once again, Noodles was sent to the doghouse for pooping in my house. If I’ve told him once, I’ve told him a million times, stop pooping in my house! COBBLE HILL POOL TEAM BEST IN BROOKLYN The motley crew that makes up the pool team at Angry Wade’s bar in Cobble Hill can now call themselves city champions. They beat every team in the city in eight ball and will now advance to Las Vegas to compete in the national competition. After the win against a team in Queens, the winning players retreated to familiar ground, Angry Wades. At last check, they were still drinking beer from their trophy cup and several members of the team were seen riding in an SUV on the back of flatbed truck, which had just towed them away. NEW BARS Just opened: Smithwitchs: an Irish pub with marginal food. Just feels a little too sanitized and doesn’t quite have that neighborhood feel yet. It’s run by the same people who run the very well done Eammon Dorans. Magnetic Fields: They turned a gay bar into a local joint on Atlantic Avenue near Henry Street. Pool table, jukebox and a local hipster crowd. Vegas: a trendy new place on Smith street near Dean with comfy seating and a pool table. Village 247: It’s at 247 Court near Degraw and the inside is done up like a small village with seating in the main room and a bar with outdoor seating in the back. DOPE SMOKING TEENS Just a note to the kids who are smoking blunts on the outdoor metal deck off of President street: I can see you firing up the doobies every day after school on the second floor. You’re my daily entertainment as I sit here typing the Carroll Gardens Cobbler and looking out my back window. Look for pictures in the next edition, unless a bag full of small unmarked bills shows up on my doorstep!
Once again, the merchants on Court Street hosted the annual Spring festival on Court street. For the life of me, I can’t think of the name of the festival. I usually refer to these types of events as “socks and sausage festivals.” I bought both and a true New York City street festival wouldn’t be complete without those two carnival staples. LETTERS: Here’s a letter in response to last month’s Cobbler headline: Local Arabs aren’t very patriotic
Here’s another letter in response to a story I did on WABC about some high school students at a Prom in New Jersey that did terrible things to a goldfish.
Another letter:
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