PortSide NY Dinner, Tickets on Sale Now!

We blogged about the PortSide NY fundraiser dinner last week and we now have more news.  Tickets are now available for this July 30th event.  If you'd like to buy tickets click here! This event will begin at 6:30 at Fort Defiance, 365 Van Brunt Street. More info is below!

Tues 7/30/13 at Fort Defiance
365 Van Brunt Street

Red Hook, Brooklyn NY 11231 

6:30pm cocktails 

7:00pm dinner

Come join us as we rally the troops over dinner at the noted Red Hook establishment Fort Defiance, named for a waterfront fort which existed down the street during the Revolutionary War.  You will get a PortSide insider update, a cappella singing and fine dining.

  

To buy your tickets, donate if you cant make it, or donate on top of your ticket price, click here!     

From Manhattan, catch IKEA ferries from Pier 11, Wall Street:

• 5:20pm gets you here for cocktails
• 6:00pm gets you here for dinner
• 6:40pm gets you here fashionably 10 min late for dinner

We would like to thank our sponsors!

 

Fort Defiance and St John Frizell

Fish donated by Pagano Seafood 

Shuttle bus from IKEA to Fort Defiance donated by IKEA

Songs of the Sea performed a cappella by Ken Schatz, Frank Woerner, and Heather Wood

Graphic Design by Diane Painter Velletri of Design Diseno NewYork  

PortSide NewYork event at Fort Defiance.

Save the date for this event! July 30th, which falls on a Tuesday, PortSide NY will be having a fundraising event at Fort Defiance, 365 Van Brunt. There will be more information coming so keep an eye out on either this blog or you can check their site. Also, if you hadn't already heard about them winning the White House award for their Sandy Recovery Efforts you can read more about that here. 

Benefit Tonight for BGI.

You can still get last minute tickets for the News Views 2013 Benefit tonight supporting the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.  You can go here to purchase or buy one at the door at the supporter level for $175.  The event will be held at Liberty Warehouse at 260 Conover St, which is a great location with amazing views.  Here's what BGI has to say about what you can expect for the evening.

Open bar, live music, dessert and after-party at Hometown Bar-B-Que are included. Enjoy the hot-and-sweet music of The Michael Arenella Quintet! Festive summer attire suggested.

This year’s event will feature tastings of seafood and land-food from some of South Brooklyn’s distinctive eateries, including: Brooklyn Crab, Court Street Grocers, Fairway Market, Fletcher’s Brooklyn Barbeque, Hometown Bar-B-Que, Littleneck, Luke’s Lobster, Mile End, M.O.B., Petite Crevette, Robicelli’s, Steve’s Authentic Key Lime Pies, Watty & Meg, and more!

We'll also have a fabulous silent auction, featuring goods and services from local businesses, including: A Cook's Companion, Blue Marble Ice Cream, Chez Moi, Circa Antiques, Collier West, Columbia Street Crossfit, Consignment/Eva Gentry, Dodge YMCA, Dvir Salon, Fairway Market, Film Biz Recycling, Finetune Pilates Studio, Four & Twenty Blackbirds, Greenhouse, Jalopy, Kaight, Kittery, Littlefield, Michael Arenella, Néda Boutique, New Body Bootcamp & Wellness, NU Hotel, pok pok ny, Ride Brooklyn, Rolling Orange Bikes, The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club, Runner & Stone Bakery and Restaurant, Rico, Tres Belle Spa, Turnstile Tours, Twig Terrariums, Uncommon Goods, and Yoga with Rebecca!

We look forward to seeing you on June 26th in Red Hook! Get your tickets today!

Draw-a-thon for B.A.R.C. today and tomorrow only!

Orange You Glad, a website design and development studio at 423 Smith Street, is hosting a draw-a-thon today and tomorrow to benefit B.A.R.C (Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition).  They are 1/3rd away from their $6000 goal.  You can help the animals by clicking here then participating or donating.  You can get a drawing by donating $25 or more or, if you donate $1000 or more, an animation of your favorite animal.  Check it out!

PS 29 Carnival

May 31st, this Friday, between 5pm and 8pm PS 29 is throwing a carnival celebration in it's schoolyard to welcome a new principal, Dr. Rebecca Fagin.  The amount of activities at this shindig are too many to list.  You'll probably be able to make them out on the flyer above.  Just know they'll have all the normal festivities, such as face painting and bouncy houses, plus a whole bunch of more unique activities such as a hair coloring station, hacky sack demonstration, and a fortune teller.  And food, of course, BBQ and snacks.  Should be a good time!

Help our Neighborhood Trees, Buy a Plant!

The Annual Cobble Hill Tree Fund Community Plant Sale is happening very soon, Saturday May 4th actually.  It looks like it will be a beautiful weekend.  A perfect day for this event, which will be held at the gorgeous Cobble Hill Park.  This park is in full bloom right now with flowering trees and tulips.  All funds raised at this plants sale will go towards the care and planting of neighborhood trees.  Walk over between 10:30am and 3pm to browse the selection!

PS 38 Spring Carnival Tomorrow.

This spring carnival sounds like a lot of fun and it's for a good cause, of course, the PTA at PS 38.  The sign lists pony rides, an obstacle course and giant slide as just a couple of activities.  And there will also be food and raffles.  If you'd like to stop by it will all be happening at the PS 38 schoolyard, that's 450 Pacific Street between noon and 5pm tomorrow.

Levant on Lucky Ant.

Middle Eastern restaurant Levant, on Court Street near Degraw, has a posting on Lucky Ant, a website similar to Kickstarter.  They are trying to raise funds to make some repairs to their facade and interior.  They also would like to fix their gazebo that was damaged during hurricane Sandy.  They are offering some pretty great gifts, including a "Private Party for 30 with Belly Dance" with a $1,500 donation.  In the next 20 days they are hoping to raise $3500, which is very likely.  Last Exit on Atlantic recently raised almost twice that amount to revamp their interior and add some arcade games.  Check out this website for more projects.