This just in from Montague BID – the schedule for Sunday’s final Summer Space. Get ready the Heights Players will be performing and there will be volleyball and skateboarding.
Update: 9/27 Due to rain here’s the new schedule:
It’s raining! We’re shifting some of the activities for Montague Street’s Summer Space event to the late afternoon, when it’s supposed to dry out a bit. See below for a revised schedule:
12:00 volleyball (as scheduled)
3:30 Heights Players perform excerpts from “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”
4:00 all-ages parade of decorated bikes, trikes, scooters and strollers
4:30 kids yoga from Yoga People
All-day activities (skateboarding, drawing lessons, chess, basketball, face painting, outdoor lounge, sidewalk sales, etc.) will be offered from 3 to 5.
New times are, of course, weather permitting! Look for notice boards along the street with revised information!
Brooklyn Heights’ final Summer Space event will be held on Montague Street this Sunday, September 27th, from noon to 5 p.m.
Scheduled events include:
· 12 p.m.: street volleyball, sponsored by the Dodge YMCA
· 1 p.m.: an all-ages wheeled parade of bikes, trikes, scooters, and strollers. Kids and grownups can decorate their ride, then come join in a fancy promenade down Montague Street.
· 2 p.m.: free outdoor kids’ yoga, offered by Yoga People
· 3 p.m.: a performance from “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” by the Heights Players
Other great free activities will be offered all day, including:
· skateboarding lessons from the Brooklyn Skateboarding Academy
· face-painting by Ricky’s NYC
· a sidewalk-chalk community art project
· toys and games — hula hoops, jump ropes, and more
· a fire truck, courtesy of the Middagh Street firehouse
The timing of this event is quite insensitive to the Jewish Community. The Jewish High Holidays ( 3 days per year) are RoshHashana and Yom Yippur. The second day of this event was on Rosh Hashana and the third event is erev(right before )Yom Kippur. The planners of this event the merchants many of whom are Christian and Muslim need education in diversity training. As for me I will be taking my shopping elsewhere.
I would suggest that out of respect for the Jewish Communitty this event either be held on another day or conclude at 2pm this Sunday. It is a small price to pay for the oversight made by the planners. Can this be communicated to Chelsea
anon and anon, does the event interfere with your ability to celebrate the holidays?
yes i need to get my kids home to prepare and do not need them wanting to go to a street fair 2 blocks from my house.. How would Christians feel about a street fair held on Thursday before Good Friday or Saturday before Easter Sunday
wow god can’t compete with a street fair? maybe he (she?) should offer face painting and discount cosmetics?
I will not engage in this nonsence.. even the Montague St. Merchants.. repect their Jewish neigbors or they do not. You know there are other streets to shop on. Have a good day
I frankly think christians wouldn’t give a rat’s butt.
Anon – it is someone’s holiday practically every day. Should none of us be able to have fun because it’s the day before a holiday. I’m a Christian and if my family can’t attend a street fair because it’s the eve of a holiday, so be it. Heaven forbid the children should have to learn that sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
“…and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil….”
anon, try doing what I do when the high holy days arrive. I tell the kids that after 4 or 5:00, there will be no more (street fairs, television, football, etc.) Simple!
Oh, and I don’t think that anyone would mind a Saturday-before-Easter street fair. And why would there ever be a Thursday street fair?
@anon, why don’t you also complain about businesses not respecting the Sabbath by closing Friday afternoon until Sunday? In there interests of Christians and Muslims, they should really be closed every Thursday through Sunday to avoid offending anyone.
“…and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil….”
I’ve never quite understood this. Why would one ask a deity who might lead one into temptation to also deliver one from evil?
I mean, how capricious can a deity get?
But that aside, is the opposite of temptation “evil”? Shouldn’t it go, “…lead us not into temptation AND deliver us from evil….”?
As a Christian, I could care less what a street fair was on.
I have successfully kept my kids away from these street fairs without issue. Heck, I often dont know they’re even going on. And I would be very happy if you want to hold any of these kinds of things on Holy Thursday or Good Friday.
Sunset isn’t until 6:45….
I am so glad to see the spirit. of the heights is one of mutual respect and understanding You montague st. merchants and fellow antisemites should be proud.
Antisemites? Let’s not go there. We all have holidays. I just don’t think the world should stop because it’s someone’s holiday. I respect all religions and you should respect my right to attend or not attend any function I wish whenver I wish. If you want to have a fair or whatever on Easter go right ahead. I would never think of telling you to change the date because it’s a holy day for me.
Sunset isn’t till 6:45 and this is the second or third week in a row that the ‘Summer Space’ is going on. You’re being a little dramatic with the “anti-semitism” claims here. Jeez.
it is as mysterious to me how Jesus, the eggs and the bunny are related as how any of the comments here or a stupid street fair can be construed as antisemite.
Cranky…Rat…Heights…
Tell me what is the reason for holding the fair on the Rosh Hashana Holiday ?? This is not antisemitic- it is an insensitive orersight. Your nasty…reactions and lack of understanding reveal that you are in your heart of heart antisemities. Judy -oh I mean Heights your days of telling people where to go or not go are over.
The merchants and the Bha have more time to set this right.
It is my true hope they do the right think…..Montague St. is on life support anyway…your responses are just helping it along.
And to all a good night
Why was this streetfair planned for one of three Jewish High
Holy Days.. After all there are only 3
Rat that is exaclty my point-you and Chelsea are on another planet
i make sure i am not in the hood when these fairs are going on.
Could someone who is offended by the planned events define if the issue is one of feeling excluded from the event (because of pre-Yom Kippur have-to’s) or that a supposedly fun-filled public event is being held so close to the start of a somber holy day.
AEB: Wikipedia has a nice (short) deconstruction of the Lords Prayer that you might find interesting.
Whoa, this is not the same post that appeared yesterday, the one that explained that the Summer Events scheduled in July were re-scheduled to September due to “inclement weather”. Sorry JL, but you lost me on that decision.
I would like to go on record as disdaining all of your primitive religions equally. If humanity could give up its yearning for a Big-Daddy-in-the-Sky we’d all be a lot better off, and our street fairs could proceed without these ugly blog spats.
Wow, Hezekiah (by the way, that’s one snazzy name) — then there would be no more San Gennaro, at the very (very) least. Not okay at all.
hezekhia, I’d stoop to kiss your ring, but I’m just not that primitive. For some of us, it’s not about the big-daddy-in-the sky but the one on our streets.
Wow, I honestly don’t get what’s disrepectful about having a street fair on a Jewish holidays.
In fact, I’m wondering if, as an atheist I should be offended by you chosing to observe a religious holiday.
Summer Space is done by 6 pm, well before sun disappears into the horizon.
summer space had an event on rosh hashanah last week. so lets not parse this with the times of sunset. It was poorly planned, they were wrong ,and need to apologize to the Jewish community of the Heights END OF STORY
Oy vey !With all the comments on BHB about how much this Summer Space project sucks, why is there such tsoris? Top 10 Reasons this is a waste of energy:
10) Barely anyone attends
9) It actually makes the neighborhood quieter. (It’s a fact, I live on Montague)
8) Most of the “action” (what little there is) is over by 4.
7) Most of the city shuts down from sunset on, including schools. Isn’t that enough?
6) The merchants are far more ambivalent to “the Space” than they are to Yom Kippur
5) We Jews are a still a minority of the general population, even here in NYC.
4) I see no observance of Ramadan or Easter on Montague and even Christmas Day doesn’t seem to roll up the Montague sidewalks
3) We have enough religious strife in our world without being Holier Than Thou by insisting the world stops well before sundown on Yom Kippur.
2) Trust me, your kids think “the Space” is lame. Should we close the playgrounds at 4pm too?
1) Can’t we all just get along? I don’t hear any Christians complaining when the movie theaters and Chinese restaurants are open and crowded with Jews on December 24th & 25th.
Settle down people. Take your hands off the keyboard and keep them in sight or I am calling the ACLU, the Anti-Defamation League and the Jonas Brothers.
(Gotta entertain those kids!)
My friend do you think a carnival on Good Friday eve would be appropriate and more than that would the Montague St. BID plan it?
I am reminded of an old adage (ca. 1998)
“arguing on the internet is like competing in the special olympics. even if you win you are still retarded.”
Please proceed to flail me for my insensitive comment. But you will only be proving the adage true. The argument on this thread is one of the most pointless i have read on the BHB. And there have been many pointless arguments…(many of which i have participated in I admit). The high holidays fell on weekends this year. You were bound to miss out on something or other. Get over it. Such a kvetch you are, anon.
I think you anon should apologize for even suggesting I’m an anti-semite. You don’t know me or what my religion is, if I am or not part of the Jewish community of the Heights or whether I observe Yom Kippur or not, and it should NOT MATTER anyway because my disagreeing with your views does not make me or anybody for that matter an anti-semite. Your nasty and baseless accusation proves that in your heart body and soul, you are just a psycho.
How dare they schedule Yom Kippur OR Summer Space during a Yankee-Red Sox game? Or during Sunday Night Football?
Dear Miss RAT
Your protests that you are not an antisemite are over the top..by that as it may. Montague st is DEAD anyway and the Montague St. BID is just putting the finishing touches on it.
There are many other great, more interesting and more welcoming places to shop. I have even heard people say the Heights is over… Heaven forbid… I live here.
the “anons” sound like a certain former BHA governor that I know…
By this logic, I suppose they should not have had the San Gennaro festival last week.
So are ANONYMOUS, anon, anon too, and anon two all different people? Are they related? Are they multiple personalities all living in one person? Who is the original and which are the copies? I demand that all the other anons stop hiding behind anon. Be original, use a new name like: poster boy, joe, junior or stinky or mayor mike.
Or in some cases: incoherent or non-linear.
@anon: Miss? from where in my comments you inferred my gender? did you use the same logic which made you conclude I’m anti-semite? wouldn’t that logic make you a sexist? Your crazy rambling on the other hand, do shed some light on the kind of person you are. Get some help.
Anti-semetic is so over-the-top.
What is the logic? Is it a historical fact that Hitler started by tempting Jewish children away from their faith by offering face-painting at at street fairs?
The accusation is so absurd as to suggest this blog is being punk’d by a troll.
Our Lady of Lebanon is having a “mini food festival” on October 3 and 4th. Someone please tell them to cancel it. I’m sure it’s someone’s holiday or holiday eve.
Anon two – not sure who Judy is but it’s not me. Stop assuming you know, you don’t.