Cobble Hill: Does building wetlands on a pier sound like a good idea to you? More than 100 Brooklynites at a rogue planning meeting led by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Defense Fund roundly jeered the soggy notion for Pier 6, near Atlantic Avenue, in the proposed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Instead, they brainstormed better uses for the jetty, including, but are not limited to, a dog run, a ferry terminal, a craft and farmers market, a rock climbing wall, etc. …
Park Slope: Naidre’s and Big Nose, Full Body held a memorial on Wednesday night for the mayor of South Slope, Whitey. Few knew his real name (it was John Glendenning), but everyone knew him as the guy who was quick to pull out a shovel to help people clear out their walkway. He’ll be missed. He’ll be buried on Saturday, May 17 at Green-Wood Cemetery. Friends will gather at Naidre’s at 11 am for a processional. …
Everyone’s raving about S’nice, the vegetarian sandwich shop on Fifth Avenue, but our meat-loving editor couldn’t believe their mock Cuban. Not only was the cheese unmelted, but what’s with the pickle wedge? It’s supposed to be sliced! …
Secular Daniel Radosh who wrote that great book about Christian pop culture, “Rapture Ready!” was at big bad Union Hall on Tuesday night spellbinding a quiet crowd. …
PS 107 is hosting a neighborhood-wide stoop sale in the Eighth Avenue school’s yard on May 18. Donate your old stuff and the school, which is at 13th Street, will sell it — for the kids! Questions? E-mail HYPERLINK “mailto:Stuart.Miller6@verizon.net” Stuart.Miller6@verizon.net. …
“Daily Show” resident expert John Hodgmen and friends entertained a throng in PS 107’s newly renovated Fourth floor library on Tuesday night. …
Our pal Diane Jacobwitz invited us to help Borough President Markowitz cut the ribbon on Danceware’s new center on May 5. We declined (we look lousy in Spandex), but Marty was there to christen the place, which is at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Dean Street. …
Bensonhurst: Assemblyman Bill Colton, last seen railing against a supposed cache of unexploded ammunition in Gravesend Bay, is pushing a trio of new bills that would require more recycling of debris from all those construction and demolition projects going on. …
Downtown: That possible mayoral candidate, Borough President Markowitz, will cross the river — again — but this time, he’s not doing it to get voters. On June 3, he’ll give the City Tech commencement address at Madison Square Garden. Stacy Cruickshank, from Trinidad and Grenada, is the valedictorian. …
Some sports teams tout their winning record, but the St. Francis College men’s water polo team called us this week to tell us that the Terriers had the highest grade point average of any water polo team in the nation. That 3.73 GPA outpraces Brown (3.40), Stanford (3.34) and Harvard (3.28). But it’s not all book smarts — Zoltan Danko can still out-swim and out-throw anyone!
Boroughwide: Just for fun, we offer this thought: Borough President Markowitz has one year, seven months and three weeks left in office. Councilmen Bill DeBlasio and Charles Barron are waiting in the wings. …
