Food & Drink
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Ladies' night, and the feeling's right. Mo's photo via Yelp.
“Ladies Drink Free” sounds like the best idea on paper, but as some of us learn the hard way, it doesn’t always pan out. So I was jazzed to discover that Mo’s, one of Fort Greene’s oldest bars, holds weekly free drink hours for ladies. And they don’t involve tacky Spanish-speaking frogs or an unknowing pledge to dance in the window (the aforementioned ”hard way”). The happy hour applies to cocktails only: 8-9pm on Wednesdays and 11pm-midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. The bar recently re-opened under new owners with a sleeker design, while still paying homage to its previous namesake (Moe’s). How did “Ladiesss niiiight!!!!” get left out of this?
Food & Drink
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Greene Hill Food Co-op, opening Saturday.
Just because you’re getting public assistance doesn’t mean you’re stuck at Pathmark. The Greene Hill Food Co-op in Clinton Hill officially opens this Saturday much to the delight of locals or anyone caught up in work shift purgatory at the Park Slope Food Co-op. In true food co-op fashion, they’re offering discounted memberships to low-income residents enrolled in some form of public assistance (SSI, Medicaid, SNAP/Food stamps, etc.) under the ecologically themed “Apple Plan.” If you qualify, you save $20 on your administration fee and can pay off the $150 member fee over five years, instead of six months. Fresh, local food, now even fresher for your wallet. 
Food & Drink
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
This is the 27th in our series on the venues featured in the second Brooklyn Beer Book. This week we’re going back to Clinton Hill for Beer Book newcomer, Rustik Tavern.
Photo via ultraclay.
RUSTIK TAVERN
471 Dekalb Ave., Clinton Hill
What it is: All that it’s name implies, plus more: a cozy neighborhood watering hole and food joint framed by rich oaks, exposed brick, antique wall hangings, and red velveted seating, with patrons and bar staff as warm as the decor.
Sales & Deals
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Rare is the Brooklyn apartment that actually qualifies as “affordable” that doesn’t involve subletting from a fraternity of bed bugs or living somewhere at the end of a train line you didn’t even know existed. A Child Grows in Brooklyn tells us about a new Fort Greene apartment complex now accepting applications that actually count as “affordable” to people who don’t have tidal pools of money collecting in their backyards: If you make just the right amount of money, monthly rent on a studio at 45 Clermont is just $461; a one-bedroom will only run you $493. There’s only 100 available so don’t wait too long!
Careers
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Even these guy's had to start somewhere.
While some of your kids’ friends are camping this summer with future-MBAs or prep pre-pre-pre meds, you could instead send them off to one near and dear to our own hearts that’s a hell of a lot more fun than endless woodworking: journalism camp! The Local, the New York Times/CUNY hyperlocal blog collaboration, is hosting a completely FREE three-day workshop for high school students interested in learning about reporting, blogging, photography and video starting July 25. The teens pick up reporting skills in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill neighborhood, and get a chance to walk away with some clips. Sure, journalism isn’t the most profitable career path, but if there’s one skill it teaches you that’s of immeasurable value in this city, it’s learning how to call people on their bullshit.
free stuff
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Tomorrow’s agenda: pick up a free flowering cherry tree in Clinton Hill then hoof it to Park Slope to recycle our vintage electronics. Here are the details on the tree giveaway:
NY Restoration Project and MillionTreesNYC have announced the species of the trees that are going to be available for FREE at the Putnam Triangle in Clinton Hill (Fulton Street at Grand Avenue) for the Free Tree Giveaway on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10 a.m. They are:
Food & Drink
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Greene Hill food co-op, opening soon. via Flickr user Thomas Chen
Have you heard? There’s a (another) new co-op in town! And Brownstone Brooklyn is partnering with the soon-to-open Greene Hill Food Co-op to help them secure enthusiastic members. For the month of February only, anyone who joins as a new member of the Greene Hill Food Co-op gets a $20 coupon at iCi restaurant in Fort Greene! Interested? Read on.
Food & Drink
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
This is the second entry in our series on venues featured in the Brokelyn Beer Book 2. Today we feature one of our new entries: Hot Bird, a new addition to the Clinton Hill bar scene and the site of Brokelyn’s Pre-gift/Re-gift holiday party. See the whole list here at the Brokelyn Bar Guide.
Hot Bird, photo via ultraclay
HOT BIRD
546 Clinton Ave. at Atlantic Ave., Clinton Hill
What it is: An adorable, old timey bar inside a 1930s gas station with the look and feel of Brooklyn at its finest.
Why we love it: Awesome music (all pre-1979), a great rotating selection of craft beers on tap, delightful bathrooms and friendly bartenders.
Sales & Deals
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
You can be in BAM's social network
We’re big fans of BAM, and the Fort Greene institution’s been pretty good to us too. And now, for the next 10 days or so, they’re running a deal to win over more loyal fans. As part of a membership drive, until Oct. 31, BAM is offering an extra month on all of its year-long BAM Cinema Club memberships. The memberships run from Movie Buff, where you get $5 off every ticket for one person (previously $4 off), to Movie Mogul II, where two people see every movie free (of course, for $700, you have to see A LOT of movies). Whatever you buy, do it in October, and get 13 months for the price of 12. And along with the deal, comes your entrance into BAM’s raffle for a chance at a membership upgrade for a year of free movies. If you’re already a Mogul, well then… maybe they’ll give you a seat plaque or something. Here’s where to sign up.
Outings
Bed Stuy/ Bushwick,
Clinton Hill/ Fort Greene
Emily Gould is reading Saturday night at Brooklyn Fireproof in Bushwick. Photo by Elinor Carucci for the NY Times.
Maybe you thought Brooklyn’s literati would still be regrouping after last month’s festivities, but no—the organized reading continues. On top of the always-solid line-up of bookish happenings in BK, a couple new free offerings this week caught our attention. Tonight, Oct. 19, at Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore, a few well-known authors (Sheri Holman, Rick Moody and others) will be reading from their work to celebrate National Reading Group Month. The 6:30 event (with refreshments) is also being used to promote Greenlight’s in-house reading groups, beginning in January. Then Saturday, Fireside Follies, a new monthly reading series with some heavy-hitters, is kicking off at Brooklyn Fireproof in Bushwick.
