This notice about the baseball and t-ball league at the Rec Center came over the transom this week. Seems like a great summertime activity for kids around the neighborhood:
Sunset Park Recreation Center has a baseball and t-ball league open for registration right now. Coaches are volunteers (if you’d like to help let them know that as well). The uniforms are also free. The only thing you’d have to pay for is the recreation center membership ($25-50). The membership includes axis to the gym, computer lab and other activities like yoga in addition to the baseball league.
The center is located in the park 7th ave and 43rd street 718-965-6533. The best thing to do, however, is go there in person rather than call.
A bit belated, but here’s another piece of community news that came my way. Sunset Park Community Supported Agriculture is now accepting new members. Below find a little info on what a CSA is, and how exactly you might go about joining the neighborhood group if this strikes your fancy. I know several people in the neighborhood have, including Sunset Parkour. From the press release:
CSA’s have been popping up in neighborhoods around the city recently and Sunset Park is no exception. Last year a handful of neighborhood residents got together and worked with Just Food to establish a CSA right here in Sunset Park. After a great first year with MimoMex farms the Sunset Park CSA is ready for their second year and is now selling shares for the 2010 season.
The Sunset Park CSA runs for 22 weeks from mid-June through early November. Members can choose either a Weekly or an Every-Other-Week vegetable share. Members pick up their shares on Wednesday’s from 5 to 7:30 at St. Michael’s Church on 4th Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets. The Sunset Park CSA is a volunteer organization and the members also set up and break down the distribution site each week.
Here are the share prices for the 2010 season. Note that there are two different pricing options based on household income – Plan A and Plan B – for the vegetable share.
Weekly Share
Veggie
Share
Fruit Share
Egg Share
Plan A
(household income over $30,000)
$475
$160
$110
Plan B
(household income under $30,000)
$315
$160
$110
Every Other Week
Plan A
(household income over $30,000)
$245
$80
$55
Plan B
(household income under $30,000)
$165
$80
$55
More questions? You can shoot an email to SunsetParkCSA@yahoo.com.
*Sunset Park Stills has a show! Photographs of “Sunset Park’s santos” by the Brooklyn local will adorn the walls of Taza de Oro on Eighth Avenue at 14th Street in Manhattan. Take a wander over to Chelsea this weekend (they say the weather’ll be fine), eat food, scope photos and see the other western waterfront.
*Sunset Park songstress Robin Aigner got some coverage on American songwriters. She is a part of a loose core of singers playing with contemporary lyrics over old-timey tunes, lines about the F.D.R. intermixed with calico dresses and strums on an acoustic guitar. You can listen in on her MySpace page.
*Dee the Dinosaur, dedicated to a friend who drifted off one night, disappearing under the Gowanus. Check out that track and others by Brian Bonz and the Dot Hongs at daytrotter.
*Glazer has shots of some new work on the Buendia Productions website. Take a look.
From the people who walk the streets to the sidewalks themselves, Sunset Park has serious texture. Out shooting the other day, I couldn’t help but notice the odd and fascinating variety of doors–oddly high from the ground, camouflaged in walls of color, and a bright spot in a field of gray. So here are a couple of shots with a common theme: unusual apertures.
Have any good “wallscapes” from Sunset Park? Send them along to sunsetparkchron@gmail.com with a note saying when you found it, where and the name you want to use as credit. I’ll put together a sideshow of some of the best looking shots.
After all that heavy stuff, I thought a little levity might be in order:
There’s a new dawg on the block in Sunset Park. ProspectBark, a Brooklyn pet-care business, is less than a year old, but it’s already making moves. It had a get-to-know the neighborhood last week, and now offers its services from dog walking to pet sitting in Sunset Park. You can check out testimonials, find out more, and contact ProspectBark on their web site.
When winter was in full force, Friends of Sunset Park gave a shout-out to the guys taking on the snow like it was their job.
The Center for Family Life’s Spark! blog keeps tabs on the goings-on of their blossoming cooperative network (stay tuned for a story on on of their groups to be published soon on Sunset Park Chronicled).
The Sunset Park Blog has notes on Chinese New Year, the shuttering of Ellie’s Bar and an opportunity for some part time work. Take a look!
Sunset Park Chronicled is overdue for a news update. Below are a couple of links to the latest news about Sunset Park, but it’s just a teaser. Stay tuned for more in the next few days:
*There has been talk for a while about the 14-mile Green way slated to connect Greenpoint to Sunset Park. The Department of Transportation this week announced that it will hold community workshops in conjunction with the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and the Regional Planning Association to educate the neighborhoods about the bike and pedestrian path. Sunset Park gets its own, which will take place Thursday, April 8 at 6:30pm at St. Michael R.C. Church on Fourth Avenue and 42nd Street.
*Images of the Sunset Park waterfront featuredin a show in February called Gentrification: The Pink Elephant Speaks, a recent art exhibit at The Museum of African Diasporan Art. You an read about the show at the Indypendent, and others that capture the lesser known sites in New York City.
*The New York Times took a tour around Sunset Park. Anything you didn’t know? Anything left out?
Something looked fishy along Sixth Avenue, a reader wrote in this morning. Bricks seemed perched precariously on the facade of 4405 Sixth Avenue in Sunset Park, and the sidewalk had been roped off. A little poking revealed that someone had filed a complaint with the Department of Buildings over falling debris. The Department on March 8 served the building with a “Failure to Maintain Exterior Wall” violation. It is not, apparently, the only issue. Records show the building also has an active boiler violation on file.
Seen anything around the neighborhood? Send a tip to sunsetparkchron@gmail.com
The weather meant business again today. Robert Aguilar sent in a picture of this shelter from the storm down on 56th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues. It looks like at least a few kids down in Sunset Park enjoyed their snow day. Sunset Park Stills also added another nice shot to its collection.
Sunset Park got nearly 15 inches, NY1 reported. This was the biggest storm this winter. Alternate side parking rules are suspended tomorrow, by the by, and no trash pickups for now, in case you were wondering…
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