With the public hearing coming up on those NYPD rules that would define two or more pedestrians or bicyclists as a parade subject to ticketing or arrest under certain circumstances, a “People’s Forum” will be taking place tomorrow night (8/17) at St. Mark’s Church on 10th St. at 2nd Avenue at 7PM. The public forum is co-sponsored by the NYC Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Transportation Alternatives, Times-Up!, the NYC Bicycle Coalition, FreeWheels and other groups.

To recap: The NYPD is planning new rules about who and when people can use sidewalks and streets. (For a full rundown see AssembleForRightsNYC, a site to which we link.) Under the new rules, any group of two or more cyclists or pedestrians traveling down a public street, who violate any traffic law, rule or regulation can be arrested for parading without a permit. In addition, any group of 20 or more cyclists must obtain a permit and approved route from the NYPD or would be subject to arrest, and any group of35 of more pedestrians must obtain a permit and approved route from the NYPD or face arrest.

There is a public hearing on August 23 at 1 Police Plaza at 6PM. AssembleForRightsNYC also urges letters, calls and emails to City Council Members and the Mayor and has contact information.

A week before the big August 23 public hearing on the massive Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement, a range of civic and community groups along with elected officials will hold a press conference on the steps of City Hall calling for more time for public review and comment. The groups and officials will urge the Empire State Development Corporation. A number of officials–including Democratic Gubernatorial frontrunner Eliot Spitzer and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn have already called on the Empire State Development Corporation to either delay the public hearing or extended the review period or both. Among those that are scheduled to be on hand or invited to take part are State Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, Assem. James Brennan, Assem. Roger L. Green, Assem. Joseph Lentol, Assem. Joan Millman, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, City Councilmember Bill DeBlasio, City Councilmember Letitia James and City Councilmember David Yassky. (Yassky supports the Atlantic Yards project.) Members of Brooklyn Community Boards 2, 6 and 8 will also be there. Organizations that are participating include Citizen’s Union, Community-Based Planning Task Force, Council of Brooklyn Neighborhoods, Municipal Art Society of New York, New York Industrial Retention Network, New Yorkers for Parks and the Women’s City Club.

Quickly, we were shown how to hold the steel pole you use to blow glass, how to get glass from the furnace with it, how to use tools to shape it and how to add color to the glass. We learned about the cooling fountain that keeps the steel pole cool so you can hold it, and the “glory hole” that you use to re-warm the glass. We also learned that glass cools by about 100 degree a second once it’s “gathered” from the furnace, so you don’t have much time to work with it.

As as student, Gowanus Lounge probably earned a C–we let glass drip a couple of times coming out of the furnace–and had to be reminded to keep twirling the tube. Twirling the tube is to glass blowing as chewing is to eating. On the other hand, it seems we did pretty well with the blowing part of the glass making. (Yes, the blowing is key to making the object of your choice.)

So, with a lot of help from Kevin, who’s been working in glass for 25 years, we created a tear-drop shaped vase with swirls of yellow, orange and red. We’d have photos of the finished creation, but it went right into a big, hot box where it has to sit and cool slowly for a while.

GL offers major thanks to Mary Ellen–who opened one of the first “arts” businesses in the Hook in the early 90s–and to the very talented and patient Kevin for an enjoyable “glass experience.”

Shaping hot glass with a “jack.”

It’s orange because it’s glowing hot.

Look Really, Really, Really Hard:

• Shrill of the Week: Weeds [Dope on the Slope]

Look Really, Really Hard:

• Fort Greene’s Fight for Livable Streets [streetsblog]
• Parade, Permits and the Right to Protest [Gotham Gazette]
• Two Maps of Blight [AYR]
• New York Magazine Letters About Ratnerville [No Land Grab]
• Debating Health, Education and Atlantic Yards in Central Bklyn [Gotham Gazette]
• A Half Million New Immigrants in Six Years [NYDN]

Look Really Hard:

• Seventh Avenue Store Closings [OTBKB]
• Flight 101 Comes to Brooklyn [A Brooklyn Life]
• Ocean Parkway Bike Path Facelift [NYPost]
• The Cooper’s Tale [New Yorker]
• From the Sidewalks of Greenpoint: Dog Crap Map [Curbed]
• Clinton Hill Wrestle Mania 2006 [Brooklyn Record]
• Brooklyn Blogs [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
• B61 Does Sonic Youth/Yeah Yeah Yeahs at McCarren Pool [B61 Productions]

18th Senate District:
Velmanette Montgomery opposes the project.
Tracy Boyland supports the project, and Forest City Ratner Forest City Enterprises supports her.

57th Assembly District:
Bill Batson opposes the project.
Hakeem Jeffries supports the project.
Freddie Hamilton supports the project and signed the “Community Benefits Agreement.”

11th Congressional District:
Chris Owens opposes the project.
David Yassky supports the project.
Carl Andrews supports the project.
Yvette Clarke supports the project.

10th Congressional District:
Charles Barron opposes the project.
Ed Towns supports the project.
Roger Green supports the project and was involved in forming the group B.U.I.L.D.

Governor:
Tom Suozzi opposes the project.
Eliot Spitzer supports the project.

Attorney General:
Sean Patrick Maloney opposes the project.
Andrew Cuomo supports the project.
Mark Green supports the project.
Charlie King supports the project.

Looks like AYVG will be reporting relevant Atlantic Yards political stories, which is a good and helpful thing.

The hyping of the neighborhood may threaten the features much touted (new hip venues and artists). What she would have said, if she could sound bite better, was that artists have begun moving out, and the pace of new storefronts on Van Brunt has slowed the past year, most likely due to high rents. Barbara Corcoran announced in the New York Times last April that she’d pay for her new $1.075 million Van Brunt building with rents that included $2,000 for a 600 square foot store. Asking prices for storefronts rose immediately. Her storefront remains empty.

As do many others, no doubt because there is no way that businesses can cover the new “hot Red Hook” rents with what remains a modest level of traffic.

Meanwhile, Steve McFarland the Red Hook resident who brings us the always superb and engaging B61 Productions, and who was quoted in the New York Times story on the Yale plans, notes that the creations were not entirely positively greeted by some community members at a forum on Saturday. Steve will have a report up soon.

We’ve already offered our opinion about their esoteric and unhelpful nature, even though a lot of work clearly went into them. In any case, we photographed some of the drawings and present a handful here.

The Gowanus Holiday Inn is now open and accepting guests, but Holiday Inn continues to say that its new Holiday Inn Express on Union Street in Gowanus is really in Park Slope. Specifically, the following verbiage from an item at Hospitalitynet:

“We chose to develop a Holiday Inn Express in Park Slope because of its proximity to downtown Brooklyn,” said Robbie Wilson, city manager, Magna Hospitality Group, LC. “There is also a shortage of hotels in this area and because we have had such great success with Holiday Inn Express hotels, we decided to develop another in Park Slope.”…Guests at the eight-story Holiday Inn Express Brooklyn will experience a comfortable and smart environment with innovative preferred guest upgrades to ensure a productive stay while traveling for business or leisure. The Express Start® breakfast bar, a complimentary café-style breakfast bar features a proprietary cinnamon roll and Smart Roast® coffee as well as other morning favorites. The SimplySmart™ shower incorporates a proprietary Stay Smart™ Kohler showerhead, upgraded 100 percent cotton terry towels and a new line of cinnamon-scented bath products…

We have already noted with amusement that an early guest told the New York Times that early one morning one of the first things he spied out his window was someone urinating on the newly boarded up apartment building across the street. Next, we suspect, will come a perplexed tourist from Wyoming that somehow ends up on Union Street between Third and Fourth avenues, who looks around and says, “Boy, Park Slope is a lot of media hype, huh? Where are the stroller moms?” (Not to disrespect this stretch of Union Street. We’re just saying that we don’t think it’s Park Slope.)

We love Gowanus. Gowanus is a friend of ours. But Gowanus, you’re no Park Slope.

Dear Concerned New Yorker:

Since the MAS announced its five principles to make a plan for the Atlantic Yards site work for Brooklyn, hundreds of people like you have told us they agree. It’s gratifying to know that the MAS and the local community are not alone in advocating for proven planning principles to determine what gets built on one of the most important sites in Brooklyn. To learn more about the principles, click here.

Unfortunately, the latest news is not good. The state government agency leading the project, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC), released the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on July 18 and scheduled a public hearing for August 23 – in the dead of summer, when the local Community Boards are in recess and many New Yorkers are on vacation. Sadly, this is further evidence that the state is not committed to conducting a fair, open and transparent public process for deciding what gets built at Atlantic Yards.

Recently, the MAS joined gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and several local officials and residents in calling on ESDC to allow more time for the EIS to be reviewed, and for hearings to begin after Labor Day. Read the MAS letter to the ESDC here, our letter to The New York Times here, and an op-ed in City Limits which discusses the public process here.

Some people wonder if the current Atlantic Yards proposal is a done deal. I can assure you that this project is not a done deal. But the MAS and local communities cannot win the fight for sound planning alone. We need your help. If you haven’t done so already, go to our Atlantic Yards webpage and add your name to our growing list of people who support development in Brooklyn that works for Brooklyn.

Please forward this e-mail to your friends and neighbors. Widespread civic awareness and activism is the only way we can demonstrate to the decision-makers that the current plan for Atlantic Yards is not acceptable.

Feel free to contact the MAS staff members working on this project – Vanessa Gruen and Jasper Goldman – with your reactions, feedback and suggestions. And we’ll stay in touch with you with more news and action steps.

Sincerely,
Kent Barwick, President
Municipal Art Society

Despite appeals from NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and others, the big Atlantic Yards public hearing is still scheduled for August 23.

• Zoning Fight Leaves South Slope Group with $100K Legal Bill [Park Slope Courier]
• Skyrocketing Brooklyn Homeownership Costs [Carroll Gardens Courier]
• Mag Calls Atlantic Yards ‘Defining Moment’ in NYC Development Politics [AYR]
• Community Groups Fear ‘Toxic Stew’ in Water from Waste Plan [Bay News]
• Eliot Spitzer Calls Brooklyn Bridge Park Plan ‘Very, Very Desirable’ [Ft. Greene Courier]
• Spitzer Open to Bridge Park Condos [NYDN]
• Vacant Lots Disappear, Illegal Dumping Gets Harder [NYPost]
• Historic Williamsburg Waterfront Views [imnotsayin]
• Williamsburg Waterfront Park May Improve Safety [imnotsayin]
• Show Celebrates Depression-Era WPA Pools [NYT]
• Dead Ends and Water Views [Runs Brooklyn]
• Rice to the Occasion [Dope on the Slope]

“They opened the windows, so the plant don’t smell as much,” a security guard at the gate was telling a stinking plant-seeking visitor. (In actuality, the plant only gave off its trademark rotting corpse odor for about eight hours Thursday into Friday.)

Said AP of the event:

It was the first time in 67 years that the odoriferous Amorphophallus titanum bloomed in New York City. The plant began blooming around 2 p.m. Thursday at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. By that evening, it was giving off its signature pungent odor, a smell akin to rotten eggs or garbage left out overnight, that emanated well into Friday morning. But by Friday afternoon, visitors had to get right next to the unusual flower to take the dreadful whiff.

As for catching a whiff, a BBG employee explained that they had been busy pollinating the plant so that they can grow more.

Maybe next time.

Look:

• Manhattan Avenue is Blowing Up [justiNYC]
• Southside Rooftop Freeze [justiNYC]
• Prickle [Lex’s Folly]
• Greenpoint Terminal Market Ruins [f.trainer/flickr]
• Brooklyn Heights Promenade [your pal matt/flickr]

Read:

• Gowanus Holiday Inn Now Open [NYT]
• Yale Students Imagine Future of Red Hook [NYT]
• Green-Wood Cemetery Bike Ban [NYT]
• Park Slope Mom Says Drink Tap, Not Bottled, Water [Brooklyn Papers]
• Yankee Stadium Project Got Twice as Long for Review as Atlantic Yards [AYR]
• McCarren Park Bathroom: Imitation of Gentrification [newyorkshitty]
• Sunset Park Classroom Feminine Hygeine Fracas [Sunset Parker]
• Volleyball Tournament at Coney This Week [NYDN]

This week’s Brooklyn Papers has a good column written by former Assemblyman Joe Ferris, who used to represent Park Slope. He compares the original Battle of Brooklyn, whose 230th anniversary is almost upon us, to the the current one raging around Atlantic Yards. We will quote in part and encourage a click so you can read his entire column:

On Aug. 27, 1776, the Battle of Brooklyn, the first and largest in the War of Independence, was fought right here in what are now the streets of Gowanus, Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery.

All too few Brooklynites are aware that their fate — and the fate of our fledgling republic — hung in the balance on that historic day. General Howe and Lord Howe had brought the entire British Army and Navy to New York and were determined to crush the American rebellion.

Thirty thousand well-trained and equipped troops of the superpower of its day were arrayed against Washington’s army of 11,000 colonial soldiers, state militiamen and ordinary citizens who believed in the ideals of individual liberty and political freedom.

The irony is that today, we are truly engaged in the Battle for Brooklyn.

The very liberties and political freedom that the Declaration of Independence proclaimed and the blood and sacrifice offered in the Battle of Brooklyn by patriots are now being trampled and sullied by the tyranny of a distant state government and its unelected representatives.

The Atlantic Yards project is an attack on our civil liberties, political freedom, our neighborhoods and our environment.

The seizure of private homes and businesses, under the hammer of eminent domain, for the purpose of benefiting another person, makes our Bill of Rights null and void.

To impose this megalith of a monstrosity upon Brooklyn’s brownstone neighborhoods, without the normal city public review process, makes a mockery of democracy.

During the 1960s and 1970s, with the inspiration of Jane Jacobs, citizens fought and stopped Robert Moses and his urban removal and destruction of our city neighborhoods.

What is the Empire State Development Corporation? Who is Charles Gargano? Who elected him and gave him the power to forever pollute our air, choke our streets and subways, steal our sky and Manhattanize the low-rise residential character of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods? Where are our elected representatives?

Good questions all.

The wonderful drawing above was located here and posted by Lumi at No Land Grab.

Look:

• BHB Photo Makes Brooklyn Papers [Brooklyn Heights Blog]
• Grand Army Plaza from the Arch (Daily Pix) [OTBKB]
• Public Pool Outside Reykjavik [Blue Jake]
• Sunset Park Gem [Sunset Parker]
• Gowanus Canal Sheen [Joe’s NYC]
• Closing or not [Lex’s Folly]
• Van with Tires and Mini Me [Joe’s NYC]
• UPS Express [justiNYC]
• Reflections of Hip [justiNYC]
• Carroll Street Bridge [f.trainer/flickr]

Read:

• Eliot Spitzer Likes Atlantic Yards, But Needs Primer [AYR]
• Stinky Plant Blooms at BBG [NYP]
• Smoking Up with the Kids in Fort Greene [Brooklyn Record]
• Full McCarren Pool Schedule [Free Williamsburg]
• Summer in Brooklyn [Coney Island Shortcakes]
• This Weekend: Outdoor NYC [Brooklyn Ramblings]
• Brooklyn Flavored Wallpaper [3 Bikini]

One of the more interesting things about those bootleg Coney Island drawings that were released without authorization is the news that the flashy firm Arquitectonica of Miami is working on Coney Island Plans for the Coney Island Development Corporation (CIDC). Arquitectonica has, in fact, been “quietly working” on Coney redevelopment plans for the CIDC since March.

The CIDC is the entity that has jurisdiction over Coney Island redevelopment projects in an area bounded roughly by the boarwalk, Surf Avenue, W. 24th Street and the Aquarium. (You will recall the story in the Sun a couple of days ago that broke the news that drawings that had been posted were “unauthorized.”)

The only big development that has been announced so far in Coney Island is the one that would be built by Thor Equities between Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk on both sides of Stillwell Avenue. The main features of the plan as posted, were a movie theater, shopping complex, kiosks shaped like the Parachute Jump that say “Coney,” a new pier with a big ferris wheel, an indoor water park and two-three highrises (which in the “unauthorized” renderings appear to be as tall as 30-40 stories).

Who’s on first? We’re not sure.

It is unclear what, exactly, Arquitectonica is working on, except that it’s responsible for non-Thor parts of the project. The firm did not tell the Sun what it was doing and deflected questions to the Department of City Planning.

As we understand the process, Ehrenkrantz Eckstut & Kuhn has been working on the Thor designs and plans and, then, running them through the CIDC with input presumably coming from Arquitectonica, which is the firm that designed the 45-story Westin Hotel on Eighth Avenue and has designed some of the highrises at the Queens West development in Long Island City. Without getting into a long discourse about Arquitectonica, let’s simply say that the firm’s work in New York City has not been without its controversies or been without detractors.

The interesting part of this is that the CIDC, which has been so publicly invisible and silent that one might suspect a public information blackout, or at least, a comatose PR staff, has made no mention of Arquitectonica’s involvement. Look at the CIDC website, and you will look in vain. (Look at CIDC’s website for anything and you will look in vain; the only thing available is a handful of press releases, some bromide-laden bloviations about its mission and some other uninformative pap. It is a virtually information-free site, either by design or accident.) Google Coney Island Development Corporation and Arquitectonica and you will likewise find zip (other than the Sun article).

So, here’s the punch line: If Arquitectonica has been working on the Coney Island redevelopment project since March, why has it taken until August for this to become clear? Or, as a GL reader put it, “Isn’t it kind of a huge deal, considering their reputation and record in NYC?” We don’t know, but it certainly seems that it would have been worth mentioning before now. And, of course, now that we know Arquitectonica’s been put on the payroll, what in blazes are they doing?

We understand that shutting the public out of the decision-making process has a long and glorious history in New York City and other places, and that planners like nothing more than to hold an event and unveil their plans so that everyone can ooh and ahh. Nevertheless, a little bit of light and openness is not only good for the community–and, well, democratic–it can sometimes result in a better plan and better projects.

Perhaps we are reading too much into this or trying to make a sand castle where there is nothing, but it would seem that CIDC and Thor and (now) Arquitectonica and who knows who else–maybe Frank Gehry or Santiago Calatrava will step out the shadows–are trying to get their planning done in private so they too can become charter members of the Fait Accompli School of Brooklyn Development, also known as the Done Deal School, Brooklyn Campus.

Face it: Getting community input–at all stages of the process–is a messy thing, especially in a place like Brooklyn where opinions tend to be strongly and widely held. The end result, though, is public buy-in, a sense of fairness and a better built environment.

Now, can someone please tell us what the heck Arquitectonica is doing in Coney Island?

Hard News:

• A Night Out with Jim Stuckey and His Entourage [Queens Ledger]
• Yale Red Hook Visions Go Over Like Lead Balloon [Brooklyn Papers]
• Hillary Clinton Slams Brooklyn Bridge ‘Park’ Condo Scheme [Brooklyn Papers]

Easy News:

• Biking for Kebabs and Italian Ice [Brooklyn Ramblings]
• Is Monteleone’s Gone for Good [Brooklyn Record]
• Big Chance to Sniff Rotting Corpse Flower in Brooklyn [NYDN]
• Brooklyn College’s Fish Farm [NY1 via Brooklyn Record]
• Guest Blogger Chandru Murthi: Moving to Park Slope [OTBKB]
• Why I Could Not Be a Guest Blogger at OTBKB [newyorkshitty]
• Hungry Cabbie Chows Down at Convivium Osteria [Gothamist]

We were taking in the latest details about how Forest City Ratner is being gobbled up by Forest City Enterprises in a complicated little financial transaction and restructuring that will work out as significant cash for developer Bruce Ratner, when we came across a description of Atlantic Yards that made us stop reading for a moment. The story, which was an AP item that ran in Crain’s, noted the details of the Forest City deal and said:

Together, Cleveland-based Forest City and Mr. Ratner have interests in 30 retail, office and residential properties, certain service companies and numerous developments in the New York metropolitan area, including The New York Times Co.’s new headquarters in Times Square and the embattled Atlantic Yards development in downtown Brooklyn, N.Y.

Maybe it’s just Gowanus Lounge, but when the Associated Press starts putting “embattled” before the name of a development, it would seem to be a clear sign that the lines in the battle for the hearts and minds of Brooklynites (and reporters) have shifted slightly.

Addendum: A commenter notes that the story above identifies the project as being in “downtown Brooklyn,” which is where the developer places Atlantic Yards. For those unfamiliar with the site, it sits adjacent to Prospect Heights, Fort Greene, Park Slope, Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens. Downtown Brooklyn is somewhat to the west and south on Flatbush Avenue.

Do these students know that Red Hook’s population is largely African-American and Latino? Are they are that two-thirds of its residents live in public housing and that the median income is slightly above $10,000 a year?

Now, whose neighborhood exactly do these Yale students want to pave and turn over to lions and tigers and bears?

Oh my. Listen hard, and you can hear the Political Correctness SWAT Team Strapping Up.

“Wow, is that what they’re teaching at Yale?” Craig Hammerman, district manager of Community Board 6 told the Brooklyn Papers’ Dana Rubinstein. “I can’t imagine worse public policy.”

We have had our share of fun with these drawings and ideas. The broader point is that they embody everything that is wrong with the architecture and planning professions. Neighboroods are flesh and blood communities populated by real people. They are not blank canvases or backdrops for abstract academic exercises. Red Hook has real issues that are in need of real solutions. Too bad these Yale students couldn’t apply their talents to them. Or, maybe, it’s a good thing.

Professor Edward Mitchell and his students will be on hand on Saturday, Aug. 12, at 4 pm for an “artists’ talk.” (The location is the Beard Street Pier site of the BWAC Summer Art Show at 499 Van Brunt Street, by the water.) Gowanus Lounge hopes that they’re shown some Red Hook love.

Who says Atlantic Yards opponents don’t have a sense of humor? No Land Grab caught our attention with the, um, headline “BRUCE JOINS BANDWAGON, CALLS FOR MORE TIME FOR PUBLIC REVIEW.” Specifically:

Developer Bruce Ratner stunned Atlantic Yards supporters and critics alike when he held a press conference yesterday on the steps of City Hall, calling on the Empire State Development Corporation to allow for more time for the public to review of the Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement. The do-gooding liberal developer stated, “Fair is fair. We’ve had over two years to produce two-thousand pages explaining why Brooklynites will barely even notice that Atlantic Yards is there. The public needs more than two months to read the sucker and figure out we’re right.”…Only Brooklyn Borough President and Cheerleader in Chief Marty Markowtiz remains as the sole supporter of the current review schedule. Markowitz has publicly stated (this is no joke folks!), “Extending the public-comment period to 66 days — more than double the required 30 for a DEIS — and holding two open public sessions, including one in September, instead of the required one, represents a fair attempt by ESDC to address the concerns of some in the community regarding a summer hearing.”

Thanks for the chuckle, No Land Grab, but Dear God, Marty, you’re killing us.

BONUS: Also of note is Dope on the Slope’s wonderful examination of the word “shrill,” which he decides to call “Shrilljoy.” It starts like this:

“I’m shrill.

Some of my best friends are shrill.

As the tastemakers and trendspotters might say, “shrill is the new black,” and I’m proud to be on the cutting edge.

Absolute required reading.

[Photo courtesy of Newington on flickr]

Extremely Required Reading:

• Shrilljoy [Dope on the Slope]
• Bruce Joins Bandwagon, Call for More Time for Public Review [No Land Grab]

Required Reading:

• August 23 Atlantic Yards Hearing to Cover a Lot of Ground [AYR]
• In Need of Some Restraint [Brooklyn Views]
• Editorial: Carl Andrews for Congress [Jewish Press]
• Hillary Kicks Off Campaign in Sunset Park [Sunset Parker]
• Hillary Cool on Brooklyn Bridge Park Condos [NYPost]
• Heightened Security on the Brooklyn Bridge [Brooklyn Record]
• Crime in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill [A Brooklyn Life]
• Bushwick! [NYDN]
• Weiner and Towns Say Feds Letting Canarsie Pier Languish [NYDN]

Required Eating:

• Weekly Food Roundup [Brooklyn Record]
• Prospect Heights Restaurants [Daily Heights]
• Ditmas Park’s Farm on Adderley [NYT]
• Keur N’Deye–Delicious Senegalese [3Bikini]
• Storm the (Veggie) Castle [NYPress]
• Sanaa, New Yemeni on Atlantic Avenue [Village Voice via Eating for Brooklyn]
• Famous Shortcakes? [Coney Island Shortcakes]