Here’s what google has to say:

1895 book titled “Nickerson’s illustrated church musical and school directory of New York and Brooklyn” calls it the “Bethel Chapel of Plymouth Parish” which is confirmed by a 1880 map showing “Plymouth Church Bethel” and a 1898 map that shows “Bethel of P.C.”

At some point later the church was acquired by the Jehovah’s Witnesses in their early days here (when they called themselves the People’s Pulput Association), and called the building the Brooklyn Tabernacle: http://www.biblestudents.com/htdbv5/r4395.htm

Apparently the Witnesses sold the property after a crackdown on pacifists during World War I, which included a raid on this building. This July 1918 New York Times headline sums it up: “RUSSELLITES SELL HOME; No Use for Headquarters Since Leaders Went to Jail for Sedition.”

A book titled “The Iron Age” says in August 1918 the site was bought the Cameron Machine Co. on 61 Poplar Street to be used for an extension of its manufacturing.

Christopher Grey, handicapped mightily by a lack of the Internet but still performing well, came up with this in the September 10, 1989 edition of the New York Times: “Q. Before World War I, there was a big red brick church at 13 Hicks Street, in downtown Brooklyn. It was later converted to a machine factory, which expanded its plant to eliminate a little alley in back. The entire complex was razed in the late 40′s for highway construction. What was the church and what was the name of the alley? . . . Manuel T. Murcia, East Greenbush, N.Y. A. It was the Romanesque-style Brooklyn Tabernacle, a Presbyterian Church. A 1912 land map identifies the alley as both Poplar Place and Buckbees Alley.”

I will one-up Grey because I happen to know that Buckbee’s Alley is the original name, later changed to Poplar Place. Buckbee ran a grocery at the corner of the alley and Fulton Street in the early days of the Village of Brooklyn (c. 1816). Here’s what Henry Stiles records for posterity about Buckbee: “Buckbee sold very poor liquor, and himself and customers were no ornament to the society of the village.” I can’t remember the source (perhaps also Stiles) but I recall reading that Buckbee was a nasty SOB who was shot and killed by his own son.

Not necessarily an overreach. You can still say what you want but sign your name. When you speak face to face, we can be seen to make your comments, so why shouldn’t you sign your name?

The majority of the kids we hire perform very well and of those that remain at the company for 3 years or more, there is virtually no difference in performance between the local kids from the less prestigious schools and the ones who graduated from Ivy league or other more prestiguous institutions. Those that don’t make it run the gamut from all kinds of schools.

I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that most Packer students don’t aspire to St. Francis, CUNY, or IONA type schools. I’m not even saying that they should, but the notion that your life is over because you didn’t get into Princeton or wherever is ridiculous. The only discernible difference is that the grads from more prestigious schools definitely are more self absorbed and have a much greater sense of entitlement, and complain more when things don’t go there way. Personally I’d hire a smart kid from CUNY or Marist than some brat from Tulane or Villanova any day of the week but that’s just me.

To put things in perspective, the most prominent criminal defense attorney in our city went to Brooklyn College and Northern Ohio College of Law. Granted, he probably wouldn’t have been hired by Sullivan & Cromwell by my point is well taken. You don’t even have to be a college grad, let alone a law school grad to be a practicing attorney in th State of New York. You just have to pass the bar.

You have captured the lives of single girls of all ages.

Love this show — & I am not a TV person.

Congratulations.

Knishes is wrapping in September, holler if you have an accent :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aedes_albopictus

Their bites are super itchy and often leave dark red spots which take a very long time to go away. It seems over the years it just gets worse and worse. I suspect it doesn’t help that there are bird baths in people’s backyards, a park with a sprinkler, blocked gutters, etc for them to breed. It just is very interesting how that area seems to really have a problem with these mosquitoes. Maybe there is some secret breeding ground that we don’t know about.

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Seems like my every day starts with this sweet serenade.

Just a curious question? Does the below EVER get enforced?

N.Y. PEN. LAW § 240.35 : NY Code – Section 240.35: Loitering

A person is guilty of loitering when he:
1. Loiters, remains or wanders about in a public place for the purpose of begging; or

anybody have ten cent or a quarter?

anybody have ten cent or a quarter?