Sure, it’s no Phu King Restaurant, but the new Ka Ka Bakery at 1505 Avenue U gets high marks for unintentional humor. We’re not sure exactly why the establishment, formerly Kingsley Bakery, decided to denigrate itself, but it provided a few good laughs on a recent stroll. That being said, they serve a decent pork bun and were friendly enough on a recent visit.
So… how many puns can we make from this photo?
Weiner is requesting money to implement long term solutions to Plumb Beach erosion
United States Congressman Anthony Weiner requested $35,000,000 for waterfront and marina maintenance projects in the Sheepshead Bay and Plumb Beach area, including dredging of the bay and long term erosion defense.
Weiner is asking that the requests be included as part of the 2010 Water Resource Development Act, which federal legislators began piecing together in August. WRDA a is biennial comprehensive water resources law that authorizes studies and projects within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mission areas, including navigation, flood damage reduction, hurricane and storm damage reduction, shoreline protection, and environmental restoration.
Allison Musacchio (Courtesy of Daily News)
With an ongoing investigation into two teachers allegedly caught naked together on school property, a third teacher at James Madison High School is now also being investigated for inappropriate behavior with a student.
In what Daily News is now calling “Horndog High,” Madison High School is the scene of two shocking revelations in as many days. Today it was revealed that social studies teacher Allison Musacchio, 31, was caught with more than 200 calls and texts to a male student on her cell phone record. Musacchio denies the allegations.
More from the Daily News:
School sources said they learned of Musacchio’s alleged antics in March, after a female James Madison student saw her ex-boyfriend’s phone number on the tenured teacher’s cell phone.
Officials found more than 200 texts and calls between the teacher and the male pupil and yanked her from the classroom, sources said. They said the amount of contact was inappropriate.
Musacchio, 31, was also investigated for having a fling with a former student but the probe was dropped because the teen was of legal age and no longer at the school, school sources said.
Attempts to reach Musacchio at her home were unsuccessful Wednesday, but she has told a neighbor the allegations were untrue.
“She said, ‘Absolutely not,’” the neighbor said. “She said, ‘Are you crazy? With my Greek background, I would never do something like that. I have morals and respect.’”
Meanwhile, Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro, the two teachers caught naked by a janitor during a school recital, appear to be getting a Facebook following. At least two groups have popped up with a combined 800 members.
One group, “Stand Up For Mauro & Brito,” seems to be started by students looking to dispel some of the out of control rumors in the media and defend the well-liked instructors. That group has a little over 400 members, with present and past students swapping fond memories of the teachers, and expressing support.
On the flip side, “We Demand Justice (and pics) for Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro!!” has almost as many members, but is largely filled with desperate men demanding more photos of the duo, and token revocations of the janitor’s “man card.”
Your kids can have a little fun at the library that doesn’t involve books. This Thursday, December 17, 2009, there will be an arts and crafts session at the Homecrest branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.
Here are the details as we received them from the Media-Newswire:
Holiday Arts & Crafts for Kids
Brooklyn Public Library’s Homecrest branch, 2525 Coney Island Avenue, Brooklyn. Thursday, December 17, 4:00 PM. FREE
Call the library, which is located between Gravesend Neck Road and Avenue V, for details: (718) 382-5924
Brito, left, and Mauro, right, were caught naked in a classroom. (Photo courtesy of Daily News)
Two female teachers at James Madison High School were caught naked in a classroom while students enjoyed a talent show down the hall, Daily News is reporting.
The romance language instructors were placed on administrative leave while the Education Department investigates for misconduct.
According to Daily News, Cindy Mauro, a 33-year-old Spanish teacher, and Alini Brito, a 29-year-old married French instructor, were caught by a janitor “undressed” in an empty classroom. Rumors had been circulating among the students for some time, but school administrators kept the relationship under wraps for fear of controversy, some students say.
Teachers and administrators at the school have refused to comment.
Here are what some students and others told the Daily News:
The changes to Coney Island Avenue intersections as proposed by DOT
Local leaders are looking for ways to put the brakes on what they say are dangerous and complicated changes around the Coney Island Avenue Belt Parkway overpass being proposed following a Department of Transportation study.
The changes are part of the Coney Island/Gravesend Sustainable Development Transportation Study, a proposal seven years in the making that aims to clear up roadway confusion and improve safety at major intersections between Sheepshead Bay, Coney Island, and Bensonhurst.
The changes proposed for Coney Island Avenue between Guider Avenue and Neptune Avenue are as follows:
But the plans have sparked anger from civic group leaders and Community Board 15 for overlooking simple solutions and instead embracing complicated changes that are dangerous to drivers and threaten businesses.
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, a charitable organization that works to reduce the burden on the poor and needy around the city, is organizing a greeting card design team. They would like volunteers to help them design and send greeting cards to senior citizens who are homebound. Remember, Hanukah begins at sundown on Friday, December 11, 2009, so if you’ve got a Hanukah card you’ve been dreaming of, you’ll need to hurry.
Here is the blurb from the Media-Newswire:
Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty
Design greeting cards for birthdays, holidays, and friendly greetings to be sent to homebound seniors. There are currently 83,000 Jewish seniors in the New York region that live alone, 25,000 of them have no adult children living in the area.
You can contact the main office of the Met Council at (212) 453-9500 or (212) 453-9619. Through its office at 1707 Avenue M, the Council has been helping lower income Southern Brooklyn residents with various needs. You may want to get involved with local volunteer opportunities (i.e., visit a senior, soup kitchen, contributions) where you can help out in Sheepshead Bay, Midwood, Madison, etc.
Our local politicians are putting your tax dollars to work by organizing various community events and happenings to help increase to quality of life for residents. Two such events will be occurring on Friday, December 11.
Senator Marty Golden with JASA (Jewish Association for Services for the Aged) will be providing a trained geriatric social worker at his office at 3604 Quentin Road between the hours of 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. The social worker is open to all Marine Park and Community Board 15 residents. If you have questions contact the senator’s office at (718) 238-6044.
Assemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz will be hosting a traveling community office by way of traveling van in front of the Kings Highway Library, 2115 Ocean Avenue between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
From left to right: Elysa Hochman, Chris Howard, and Jason Hochman
Thanks to Jason Hochman and his performing partner-slash-wife, Elysa, Sheepshead Bay now has its very own incarnation of Rodrigo y Gabriela mere feet from Emmons Avenue’s piers, harking to a blossoming music and art scene on Brooklyn’s south coast.
Brooklyn Guitar Academy opened its doors in October, specializing in Spanish flamenco and rumba, alongside a rhythmic range from classical and rock to funk and reggae. Familiar faces at local venues, the Hochman’s now offer beginner to advanced classes and private lessons from their 2770 East 16th Street location, and they have separate classes for kids, teens, and adults.
Courtesy of Lisanne via Flickr
No, you didn’t lick a toad and forget about it. This is actually what a storefront on Avenue U and East 8th Street looks like. And it’s absolutely heady…
According to Lisanne, the sidewalk tiles date back to the 1950s. Somehow I’ve never seen this place, so I couldn’t say if the store’s most recent tenant was still, in fact, the tile store. But whatever it was, this rainbow room is up for rent. So… maybe this will be Senator Carl Kruger’s next office? (Oomph! Cheap shot. Sorry.)
