Tribeca Film Festival just ended, but Greenpoint Film Festival is returning for its sixth year, from May 4 to 7. Just like Tribeca, GFF features documentaries, narrative features, experimental and animated shorts, but it also boasts a category that’s unique to the neighborhood. Among the six environmental films are local pieces like Robert DiMaio’s Waterways of Hope, about cleanup projects along Newtown Creek, and director Coleen Fitzgibbon’s five-minute documentary, Bushwick Inlet Park.
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A New Gallery With Epic Views of Shit Creek Will Host the Next Wild Torus Event
(Photo: Nicole Disser)
I’m not gonna lie, when I heard Wild Torus— the aggressively psychedelic Bushwick performance art duo– would be hosting their “most ambitious event yet” this weekend, I imagined a sweaty, gyrating orgy of disembodied tentacles coated in globs of indecipherable goo, or “Torus Juice” as it’s known (it’s actually corn syrup). Not exactly gallery material. When I first encountered Wild Torus’ cult-like “digital spirituality” rituals at their Bushwick home base, Torus Portus, I had never seen anything like it– and I haven’t seen anything to match it since.
This Halloween, Step Outside For Canoe Rides, Bike Jousting, and Medieval Rituals
If you’ve taken a gander at our rundown of Halloween parties and decided that sweating into your Babadook costume at a bar or warehouse rave is literally your worst nightmare, consider one of these action-packed outdoor throwdowns instead.
Greenpointers, Hold Your Nose Up High and Learn About Your Hood’s Polluted Past
Sewer overflow near the the Boat Club. (Photo courtesy Newtown Creek Alliance)
Just a few days after CUNY social journalism fellow Aaron Smith launched his blog “The Brooklyn Memory Project” with an unsettling video of a retired Greenpoint NYPD detective recalling all the cancer deaths he’s witnessed (possibly due to the area’s oil spill), Greenpoint Waterfront Association for Parks and Planning is launching a series of forums about North Brooklyn’s environmental issues, starting with a discussion tonight about Greenpoint’s polluted past.
10 April Fool’s Day Jokes That Played Brooklyn For Lulz
Crochet art installed in Bushwick by London Kaye. (Photo: londonkayecrochet on Instagram)
Bushwick Spam wasn’t the only April Fools’ Day ruse that tested the limits of Brooklyn absurdity in order to pull the local alpaca wool over everyone’s eyes. Here’s the rest of today’s faux news reports, from most believable to least believable.
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Sign Up For These Nifty Sewage Alerts and You’ll Never Be Up Shit’s Creek
Sewer overflow near the the Boat Club. (Photo courtesy Newtown Creek Alliance)
Want to know when to avoid Newtown Creek like the plague? Just text 646-576-SHIT. (No, this is not a belated April Fools’ Day joke.)
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Stomach It: 5K New Units Means ‘Gigantic Sandwich Landing On Greenpoint’
Proposed Commercial Street Expansion (Photo: Natalie Rinn)
“Yes, there is a gigantic sandwich landing on Greenpoint,” said Ward Dennis. “The question is how can we make it better?”
During a community workshop last night at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (an invitation to a water treatment plant? how could we say no!?), the co-chair of Neighbors Allied for Good Growth managed to make us super hungry while talking about two housing developments – known as Greenpoint Landing and 77 Commercial Street – that already have full approval to add over 5,000 apartment units and more than 170,000 square feet of public open space to Greenpoint’s northern shores. Construction begins next year.
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