Showing posts with label Havemeyer Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Havemeyer Street. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2019
Friday, December 7, 2018
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Monday, February 2, 2015
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Williamsburg 30-Second Mystery Theatre: Marone! Who Tore Down Our Old Italian Restaurant? 2/6
As night descends on the Williamsburg waterfront, Claudia Cardinale is approached at the soccer field of Bushwick Inlet Park and told a shocking story about her friend Rose's favorite old Italian restaurant on Havemeyer Street.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Saturday Afternoon in Williamsburg: Sixth Annual Bicycle Fetish Day at The City Reliquary
After giving a final exam this morning to our students this morning - we're in the midst of a lot of grading and teaching eleven days in a row (we started an intensive summer session class) - we were happy to get back home to Williamsburg so we could walk over to The City Reliquary's sixth annual Bicycle Fetish Day.
It's a block party,
poetically between Grand and Hope, on Havemeyer.
Scores of bicycles
were everywhere.
We watched some trick riding.
Scooters were around too.
And a unitary unicycle.
This geodesic dome
looked aphrodisiac.
Several fetishists represented the Puerto Rico Schwinn Club, but only one man had maracas.
A few ices fetishists took pleasure in this cart.
One boy on a bicycle provided all the power needed to light Williamsburg. Or at least the compact fluourescent lightbulb in our bathroom.
The DJs were not on bikes.
Time's Up!
It was a great day for Brooklyn bicycle fetishists.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Good Friday Afternoon in Williamsburg: The Way of the Cross Procession at the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Around 1:30 p.m. today, we were at the Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Metropolitan and Havemeyer (though the church is technically on North 5th Street) for the solemn Good Friday procession, the Way of the Cross.
A car with loudspeaker behind it played music as people filed out of the church.
Historically an ethnic Lithuanian parish since the early 20th century, the Church of the Annunciation still has Sunday masses in Lithuanian every week, in addition to the later mass in Spanish. (There are masses in English and Italian at Our Lady of Mount Carmel.)
As in other local commemorations of the Stations of the Cross today, children played a prominent role here. There were a lot of strollers in the procession.
Also a couple of bikes and at least one scooter.
As we were walking, we noticed this graffiti on the Metropolitan Avenue sidewalk.
Here's a video of a Williamsburg Good Friday procession in 2007:
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