We first told you about 3rd Ward’s shiny little food truck, Goods, back in October. Since we’re practically neighbors, we’ve noticed some activity in the lot over the past few weeks and had a chance to take a look. It’s classy! And with the rest of the lot, Goods should offer a fun little yard to grab some grub just steps from the Lorimer stop.

The food will be your standard American fare, although prepared by Alex McCrery, identified by the Brooklyn Paper as “former sous-chef at New Orleans’s legendary Commander’s Palace.”

The 25-foot 1946 Spartan trailer (they used to make airplanes in WW2!) from a junkyard in Ithaca will serve fare for all three meals. We’re looking at burgers, hot dogs, Brooklyn Lager-battered fish and chips, biscuits, sausage egg and cheese, hash browns, and Intelligentsia coffee. They will deliver, offer take-out, and host a 35-seat garden out back.

Opening day: June 9th.

Neighbors of “The Woods” took over a recent Community Board 1 Public Safety Committee meeting to stomp out a plan that would expand their backyard garden by like, seven stools.
Bar owners Dave Rosen and Matt Relkin “wanted to add seven stools in an adjacent backyard and have the area serve as a meeting place for community groups and the pick-up spot for a neighborhood community-supported agriculture group to grab its vegetables this summer,” but neighbors can’t handle any more noise.

Eyebeam just announced a really interesting show called Re:Group, which aims to examine “models of participation and participation as a model in art and activism.” It opens June 10th with a talk at 5pm and reception 6-8pm.

Re:Group features work by thirteen artists, designers, hackers, activists, and collectives exploring both the potential and limitations of participation, networked collaboration, and distributed labor. From the “crowdsourced” projects Ten Thousand Cents and White Glove Tracking to the tactical media art of The Yes Men and Ubermorgen, from the urban interventions of John Hawke and The Institute of Infinitely Small Things to the open platforms of Ushahidi and MakerBot – the exhibition represents a diverse range of critically and socially engaged work that rethinks the institutional practices within urban planning, civil engineering, transportation, industrial design and production, relief work, and the news media.

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A subway hero descends then vanishes:

After a woman fainted onto the tracks Monday evening at the Union Square station, the man jumped onto the track bed to try to revive her, witnesses told the police. Seeing the lights of an Eighth Avenue-bound L train, and probably realizing he was out of time, he hastily positioned her body in the trench between the tracks, then hoisted himself out as the train roared in, the police said.

The New York Times ran a trend piece yesterday on a pioneering population of hipsters who have chosen to live their fringe lifestyle in more the geographic sense. The story goes: settling young artist types, who used to take root in Williamsburg for its low rent-to-space ratio, have started falling even farther from the Big Apple [tree]. Rosendale, NY, just 90 miles north, sounds like it has everything an emigrant from the borough could want: a cafe/nightclub with an “eclectic menu” and a “Brooklyn feel”, copies of The Brooklyn Rail, and the occasional Maggie Gyllenhaal sighting. Williamsburg expats may feel right at home in Rosendale, which ‚”lacks a supermarket but has a surprising number of restaurants ‚Äî four on Main Street alone, including the¬†Rosendale Cafe, a stalwart¬†vegetarian¬†and folk-music institution.”
So hipsters are getting out of town! For the internet’s sake, I hope this rural hipster migration is real because ‚”hicksters” is just too appropriate of a neologism to go unused.
Pictured- the new “just over the river,” from the town of Rosendale’s website.
[Original Article - NYTimes]

A 26-year-old woman fell into the tracks at Union Square yesterday evening, creating a flurry of police activity and concerned commuters. According to Gothamist, CBS & the New York Post, here’s what happened: The woman fainted and fell onto the tracks after feeling “dizzy,” and was run over by an 8th Avenue-bound L train.
CBS: “Emergency Medical Technicians who first reached her were shocked to find nothing more than a few cuts to her head.”
Gothamist commenter: “I was there and saw the whole thing. The train DID NOT stop before hitting her, it went right over her. I don’t know why they would say that it stopped, but hopefully the part about her being OK is true.”
NYPOST: “Cops said the woman may have fainted and there was no criminality.”
Reports differ as to whether or not the train stopped, but either way, she must’ve fallen into the middle portion between the tracks as she didn’t suffer any serious injuries other than cuts on her head. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital. According to a witness who tweeted about the scene, “she may have lived cuz she was sort of lying down in the middle.”

Imogen Heap is playing this Tuesday, May 25 at Hammerstein, and we’ve got a pair of tickets just burning a hole in our inbox. Who wants ‘em? Head over here and leave a comment, or tweet as @freedubya, and you’re entered to win. We’ll announce a winner tomorrow morning!

Our friends at QuietColor are throwing a “magic wedding” party tonight at Monster Island Basement. They’re talking live bands, magicians, and an actual ordained minister performing an actual real-life wedding between Miss Katie Kristine Darling and David Randall Sherman! Bands include Project Jenny, Project Jan, Swimming In Speakers, Carnivores, and Sunglasses.
They write, “You may think you know the drill, you’ve been to weddings before, but we guarantee you’ll never be a part of one as magical as this. Live bands and magicians will entrance and engage you while love and refreshments abound! Your attendance makes you a member of the wedding PARTY, as we go all-out to send away the happy couple in truly sensational and jovial fashion.”

magic wedding from christopher mulligan on Vimeo.

Tonight @ Monster Island Basement (128 River St @ Metropolitan Ave) – 8PM | All Ages | $10 |

The City Reliquary (370 Metropolitan Ave) is throwing a block party this Saturday on Havemeyer b/t Grand and Hope St. for your bicycle! Bring ‘em, show ‘em off, win prizes, see music, party down.

Contests include: Best VINTAGE Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best, BMX, Best WORST Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike prizes donated by: Outlier Tailored Performance, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Affinity Cycles, including TWO FREE BIKES from TREK and NYCBikes!
Performances by: Heels on Wheels, Lucky Chops Brass Band, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, plus DJ Stacher & Dirtyfinger on the turntables all afternoon!

Block party is noon – 6pm, after party at the Reliquary is 6pm – 10pm.

Hey everybody! Quick, go comment on this FB post to enter to win one of two pairs of tickets to see the New York Dolls play at Warsaw Saturday night.