“Footsteps. Nothing but footsteps, loud and clear, walking the length of the brownstone apartment above. A constant pacing that started near the front door, walked to the opposite end of the house, turned and walked back to the door.”–Deep in the Heart of Brooklyn

For this week’s Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, we turn to jury duty. We don’t know what’s going on at the courthouse downtown, but we found not one, but two, ads posted within a couple of hours of each other. There was this one:

jury duty brooklyn bumblefuck – w4m – 26
you had to move over so i could plug in my laptop, and we chatted before you were dismissed. later i noticed you walking in front of me at fulton mall and i turned into a bumbling fool.

well, sir, i found the G train after all and i keep wishing i had given you my number. if you want it, it’s yours.

And this one:

jury duty brooklyn – m4w – 28
We were both waiting to be called in, you got the call, I didn’t. You were striking with brown hair and a tan sweater over a striped shirt. I had a beard, glasses and a tie. If only that court house didn’t seem so creepy…

So, possibly, they could get with each other if they don’t find their respective jury duty missed connections?

Park Slope’s Community Book Store on Seventh Avenue has many friends, including six people that have invested $10,000 each to help keep the store open. one of the investors is actor John Turturro.–NYT

Once a week we highlight some comments left behind during the previous week by GL readers. Here are some selections from the last seven days:

Williamsburg Loft Tenants Get $35,000 & $65,000 Con Ed Bills “another sensationalist story about injustice served up over in wburg by our good forthright friends at GL, who never fail to pass along any whisper that might advance their anti-developing brooklyn agenda.” [Anonymous]

Columbia Street Housing Discussion to Become More Vocal “I think that this area desperately needs new housing. The little business nearby can last much longer on the bums that live on that block currently. Seems like a good thing in my opinion *and I live 3 blocks away.” [Anonymous]

Park Slope Dog Beach Dachshund Attack Update “Maybe… it was just a horrible accident. Accidents happen. There doesn’t always need to be someone, or something, to blame. Instead of directing anger, try feeling compassion for how upset the dog walker and dog owner must feel, how upset the attacked dog is and how unstable the dog that attacked was. Everything these days is blame, blame, blame. Try understanding and compassion and you’ll be amazed at how much better you feel.” [Red Hook]

Dog Attacks Another at Park Slope Dog Beach “‘i wonder if you got permission from the posters on [Park Slope Parents] to reprint their messages on your blog? It’s illegal to do so if you have not.’ enlighten us. what law is being broken?” [Anonymous]

• Ask a Greenpointer: The Homeless Question, Part I [New York Shitty]
• Many Burg Openings All at Once [A Test of Will]
• Grandma Beauty Pageant in Brighton Beach [NYT]
• Bay Ridge Bakery Bakes Final Loaf [Bay Ridge Rover]
• Dumbo Weekly Links [Dumbo NYC]
• Residents Welcome on Brooklyn College Campus [Brooklyn Junction]
• New Brooklyn Insult: Go Back to Park Slope [Ditmas Park Blog]
• Court and Bryant Street [Seriously Excited]
• Brooklyn School Parents Worried About Staph [NYP]
• Slab Night [Brit in Brooklyn]

Given the season, a few YouTube Brooklyn Halloween-related vids seem appropriate today.

Here are some Sunday Halloween events, which are especially compelling because the weather is much nicer today. For a really good list of events in Brooklyn, see A Child Grows in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Ghouls and Gourds. Noon-6PM. They’ll have children’s bands, thai pumpkin carving, costume making contests and more. There will even be a parade for kids with a band and banners.

Dumbo: Fourth Annual Halloween Parade. Starts at 4PM. It’s the annual parade around Brooklyn Bridge Park. Adults, kids and pets in costume (or not in costume) accepted. There’s a Halloween Party from 4:30-6:00PM Toro, which is at 1 Front Street.

Greenpoint Town Square’s Kids Halloween Parade + Party. From 4PM-7PM. It kicks off at 176 Java Street (Manhattan Ave. & McGuinness) at 4 PM. The parade goes down Manhattan Ave with the NYPD Jazz band. There’s a party afterward at 176 Java Street with arts and crafts, food, drinks, games and music. The party is $5 admission for children.

North Flatbush Halloween Spooktacular. From Noon-4PM at the Brooklyn’s Bear’s Garden. There will be a Scary Garden, facepainting, scarecrow making, pumpkin decorating, apple bobbing, storytelling and more. Free.

Mother Cabrini Park 6th Annual Halloween Bash. 10AM-Noon. In Mother Cabrini Park, which is at President and Van Brunt Street. Costumes, games, face painting and a lot more.

Eighth Annual Fort Green Park Halloween Festival including the Great Pupkin. (Postponed from Yesterday.) 12 noon to 4:00 pm. The Festival will feature hayrides, face-painting, inter-active children’s music and dance, games and prizes plus live entertainment, culminating in a children’s costume parade. At 12:15 Cirque Boom Stilt Walkers and Jugglers will herald the event as The Great Pupkin Dog Costume takes place at top of the park near the monument. 12:15 Pumpkin Patch opens. 12-4 Hands on children’s art activities- decorating pumpkins and reusable canvas bags.12:15-3:15 “Haunted House Hallway” (incorporated into back of the stage) Open. Face painting 12:30-3:30. 12:30- “Games of Skill” and sack-races will commence- We have lots of prizes to give out. 1:00 The Haywagon will begin circling the main lawn. 3:30 Children’s Costume Parade and Contest. ON STAGE: Inter-active music with Fusha Dance Company 12:30-1:30 OpusDitty and the Hoedown Gang 1:30-2:30.

There are only a few more days to get your sushi on at Inaka Sushi House on 7th Avenue. Reader reports say it’s closing at the end of October. Another victim of change.–OTBKB

This is not a Brooklyn story, but it is a deeply bothersome story: The Mayor’s Alliance for NYC’s Animals thinks the Port Authority is lying when it says the feral JFK cats it is trapping won’t be killed. The Alliance’s s Jane Hoffman says it is “lying to the public by saying these animals will somehow be miraculously adopted.”–Gothamist

The owner of the dachshund that was attacked and nearly killed in Prospect Park at the dog beach this week by another dog left a comment late last night on one of our posts. We think it’s worth sharing here:

I am the owner of the dachshund. He is a mini wirehaired named Wolfgang with a gentle and sweet nature. He obviously wanted to live and is alive today. I want to thank, very specifically, Manny Cabezas, who had the skill, wherewithall and passion to run with him when it seemed that all was lost, to the nearest vet. Also, to stay with him and help et him on to the next step, Animalkind and Dr. Patil, who helped to stabilize and keep him going until we got him to the Manhattan Animal Center in Manhattan.

He will probably never go to the park again because I can’t take the chance that he will be put in such a vulnerable position. For all the innocent animals, children and others this is a travesty.

Thank you all for your concern and your best wishes

We’re glad to know that Wolfgang survived.

(The photo above is not Wolfgang, but is a mini wirehaired dachshund.)

We just got an email from Eugene Patron at the Prospect Park Alliance, who always keeps us up to date about goings on in park. He writes to say that “as of 9:30am we’re still on. Even if some activities end up get scaled back there is still events at Audubon, Lefferts and the zoo.” The main issue in question is the Haunted Walk, but it is going forward. So all the information is one place, here’s a recap of today events, which run from Noon-3PM:

The Haunted Walk is free and is suitable for young children accompanied by parents/guardians or older siblings. The Haunted Carnival takes place on the the Nethermead and features games, music, hay and pony rides and performances. Enter the Park at the Prospect Park Southwest and 16th Street entrance. Plus, on Saturday and Sunday: Haunted Carousel, 12-5 p.m. Chilling music, ravens, bats, and spiders make a spin on the Carousel the perfect Halloween treat. $1.50.Plus, there will be Scary Stories from the Past at 2PM and 3PM at the Lefferts Historic House as well as Skeleton Cut-Outs from 1PM-4PM. The Audobon Center will have “Creepy crafts, live critters and hands-on experiments.” and there will be activities at the Prospect Park Zoo including “Boo at the Zoo” from 10AM-5:30PM: “Go batty for Halloween with activities like face painting, craft making, encounters with “spooky” creatures and a trip through the Zoo’s legendary haunted barn.

The events at toward the bottom are the ones that won’t be as affected by the weather. You can see the full schedule by clicking here. And, once again, the best guide to Halloween activities in Brooklyn is available here at A Child Grows in Brooklyn. You might want to check with the sponsors of any outdoor events scheduled today. The weather was an issue last year on the Saturday before Halloween too.

The new “no menu” and “no fliers” signs that are going up around Boerum Hill and Carroll Gardens are certainly noticeable. We can’t wait to use them.–Pardon Me for Asking

[Green Street Time Machine courtesy of chicapoquita/flickr]

Images:

• A Girl and Her Father in Prospect Park [Blue Jake]
• Neptune Afternoon [Atomische]
• Crates [Lex’s Folly]
• Sleeping Beauty on Manhattan Avenue [New York Shitty]
• Late Night Filming at Cobble Hill Cinema [BK 11201]
• Moon Over Brooklyn Bridge [Self-Asbsorbed Boomer]

Not Images:

• Port Authority Trapping Cats at JFK [Gothamist]
• Group Say Port Authority Lying About Not Harming the JFK Cats [Gothamist]
• Park Slope Psycho Geographics [Brownstoner]
• Lambda Independent Democrats (LID) Take Stand Against Atlantic Yards [No Land Grab]
• Great Pupkin at Fort Greene Park Moved to Sunday [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Reminder: Electronics Recycling in Bay Ridge This Weekend [Green Brooklyn]
• A Blogged Week [Bay Ridge Rover]
• Coney Island at Christie’s [Kinetic Carnival]
• Bed-Stuy Haunted Houses [Bed-Stuy Blog]
• Pervy Polka for the People [New York Shitty]

BONUS RETAIL/BUSINESS RUMORS: Interestingly, when we posted this at Curbed yesterday, one commenter noted that Commerce Bank‘s website notes that it will be opening a branch on Bedford Avenue at N. 4th Street. Another commenter said that Corcoran will be opening a big office in roughly the same spot. All very interesting. So, perhaps the Door of Death will eventually morph to the Door to the ATM or the Door to Pricey Real Estate for Sale.

We heard from the local sponsors of a Step It Up Day 2007-National Day of Climate Action event, who are trying to get word out about their banner painting event for kids here in Brooklyn, and we’re glad to help. The email says, in part:

Please join me and tens of thousands of others across the country for the second Step It Up Day on Saturday, November 3rd in continuing our call for action from our leaders and presidential candidates…Join the Green Guide for Kids in Stepping It Up and taking action against global warming. All ages are welcome to this event to ask Who’s a Leader? Togetherwe will create a banner and display it at Grand Army Plaza infront of thousands of passerbys. Please spread the word to everyone you know and please come! There will be treats.

This event will take place on Saturday November 3 at 12:00PM at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, NY.

This is not a Brooklyn item, but it is a very upsetting story that you may have seen yesterday. You can contact the Port Authority to tell them what you think of their roundup of the feral cats at JFK and the fact that they could very well be put to death. Please help.–Gothamist