LOL Cats confession

So Friday used to be the day I'd go look at the LOLCats. But it's turned into a daily habit. Here are a few favorites:











more cat pictures
- posted by Amy @ 5/09/2008 11:49:00 AM

 
Pelham on location at the Transit Museum

The remake of "Taking of the Pelham One Two Three" had taken over the Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn yesterday when I walked by.

The original conatins one of my favorite lines, uttered by a subway official when it appears all the subway passengers will die:

What the hell did they expect for their lousy 35 cents - to live forever?

Here's a thing I wrote for NewYorkology in 2005 about a Transit Museum exhibit on films shot on NYC subways and buses.
- posted by Amy @ 5/06/2008 07:40:00 AM

 
Ikea's Red Hook 'grand opening campout'

See the new Brooklyn Ikea webpage for news of its grand opening campout.

Customers can begin lining up at IKEA Brooklyn at 9:00 AM on Monday morning, June 16, 2008 – in advance of our June 18, 2008 opening. We are going to be doing something special for everyone on opening morning so you do not have to be the first, second, or third customer in line* in order to share in the fun. Keep checking for updates!

Oh, the Red Hook jokes just write themselves, don't they?

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And in other exciting neihborhood news, the B61 bus I was on this afternoon went down Columbia Street today -- in front of Pit Stop, Freebird, Sugar Lounge, Brooklyn Collective, Winkworth, etc. -- for the first time in a year or two. That said, the construction work still ain't quite done. They were digging up - yet again!! -- the intersection at DeGraw.

Earlier: Red light in front of Ikea Red Hook
Ikea Signange

Labels: brooklyn, nyc, red hook

- posted by Amy @ 5/05/2008 06:30:00 PM

 
Schmap test



Schmap asked permission to use a Brighton Beach picture I'd posted on Flickr. It should be in there somewhere. Posting here to see what their widget looks like. ...

- posted by Amy @ 4/27/2008 12:17:00 PM

 
'Floater Week' resurfaces

In November, I went to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to cover a book release event for Gabriel Cohen's new New York thriller "Graving Dock." He read a passage from the book that mentions "Floater Week" which he said is real, and normally happens around tax day.

Indeed, April 15 was last week. And from today's New York Times ... it's time.

Labels: books, brooklyn, nyc

- posted by Amy @ 4/24/2008 08:53:00 AM

 
Popemobile in Red Hook

OK, the pope helicopter and popemobile videos and commentary are posted at NewYorkology, but here are the other Popemobile pictures that aren't completely out of focus or obscured by the dirty windshield.

Labels: brooklyn, nyc, pictures, red hook

- posted by Amy @ 4/20/2008 10:51:00 PM

 
Papal flags flying at WTC site

On the way back from Jersey this evening, we passed by Ground Zero and noticed the pope's flags were still in place from his visit this morning. That's the Deutsche Bank building in the background.

Labels: nyc, pictures

- posted by Amy @ 4/20/2008 09:27:00 PM

 
Red light in front of Ikea Red Hook

Apparently I'm going to have to post my exciting evening in backward order. So first I give you ... a functioning stop signal in front of Ikea.

After we dropped off the steplad in N.J., we hit this light on the return trip.

Labels: brooklyn, pictures, red hook

- posted by Amy @ 4/20/2008 09:16:00 PM