Who would think to find love on an obnoxiously crowded subway? Well I’ve certainly been hit on during a morning subway ride which isn’t as flattering as one might think. If you’re going to be alone tomorrow for Valentine’s Day, maybe you should check out the New York Transit Museum. They are holding their second annual Love-in-Transit party, inspired by the “Missed Connections” section of Craigslist. Worker Marcia Ely hopes the party will celebrate the train’s “unique ability to bring people together.”

Brooklyn artist Sophie Blackall has been asked to showcase some of her illustrations from her book Missed Connections: Love, Lost & Found. They are her interpretations of the infamous Craigslist posts. She began her own drawings after suffering her own missed connection encounter. Now you can check out her work on her blog.

Without the worry of your future potential love getting off at the next stop, there is much more hope for us lonely New Yorkers at tomorrow’s party. Blackall comments, “It’s a fun idea to meet up there and not really go anywhere.” The party will run from 6-8pm tomorrow. Also enjoy the sounds of You Bred Raptors?, a cross between classical and heavy metal. It’s sure to be a good time and it’s better than sitting alone at home eating a box of chocolates you purchased for yourself.

Fans of Brooklyn news were devastated last year when Bushwickbk.com had to shut its doors for financial reasons. Bushwickbk.com had been the top source for Bushwick community news, culture and politics. It was written by Bushwick residents for Bushwick residents and covered all aspects of the neighborhood so many of us call home.

Thanks to the never say die attitude of Bushwickbk.com’s loyal constituency and staff, the paper is on the verge of making a comeback. Its Kickstarter page is in the process of raising $40,000 to bring the only newspaper worthy of Bushwick, Brooklyn back. If you live in and love Bushwick you should try to chip a few dollars in to revive the paper. You get great prizes and cool swag for donating.

I can think of few neighborhoods as dynamic as Bushwick. With so much going on its important that Bushwick residents (myself included) have a proper neighborhood news source. Who else is going to take the time to review every taco joint in the area?

Bushwick is a distant afterthought, if it gets a mention at all, in any other news souce. It’s time we reclaimed our neighborhood’s paper. Donate today and eagerly anticipate the triumphant return of Bushwickbk.com.

This weekend I had the pleasure of drinking. Sure, I have the pleasure of drinking most weekends but this past Friday’s binge drinking ended happier than normal. Some friends and I found ourselves in a random dancing/bar space somewhere on North 6th in Williamsburg. We spent some time there swigging Brooklyn Brown Ales and plastic cupped shots of Jameson. We went to Union Pool, the Target superstore of hip Brooklyn bars.

The end of the night however was the highlight. Usually we make our way to the Tex-Mex establishment San Loco but someone had a different idea. We hit up the Meatball Shop, a cool place that was loaded with customers even at the late night hour of 3am. We all dined on meatballs because that is just what this particular place serves. Just meatballs.

You can order meatballs made from a number of meat options dowsed in a number of sauce options. There are also great delicious sandwiches and meatball sliders. Everything though is meatballs! And they were delicious! Even my sober friends were shoveling these balls of meat in their faces like they had the cure to some disease. It mioght not be important Brooklyn news but you should be checking out the Meatball Shop soon!

The Meatball Shop’s Brooklyn location is at 170 Bedford Avenue.

Heading into Brooklyn?  You should definitely hop on a train to Coney Island to see The Great Coney Island Spectacularium.  This event takes a look back into the pre-cinematic 19th Century when live, weird, and sometimes outrageous live attractions were all the craze.

Though the event may not have wild events like a staged tenement fire featuring 2000 participants or an authentic replica village populated by genuine headhunting Bontac tribesmen, the Spectacularium has its own unique exhibits that are sure to please modern day audiences.  These include Body Worlds, a traveling exhibition of preserved human cadavers and body parts; Pompeii the Exhibit, which showcases many artifacts and genuine body casts that were preserved over 2000 years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted and borrowed the town in volcanic ash and other interesting attractions.

If you are looking to do something very interesting and very different from what you usually do on a typical weekend, The Great Coney Island Spectacularium is the place for you.  Take a trip to Brooklyn and head on over to the Coney Island Museum where it is being held.  The Museum is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12PM to 6PM.  Admission is $5 for all comers.

Take some time to check out and enjoy the many attractions the event is bound to have.

It’s hard to focus on any other Brooklyn news than the Super Bowl right now. Not only is all of Brooklyn aflutter, all of New York is excited to celebrate another championship for the Giants today. Instead of talking about robberies, murders, and other depressing Brooklyn news that seems to flood the Internet, I thought it would be much more interesting to recap the win.

The Patriots had a chance to redeem themselves after their last Super Bowl battle with the Giants four years ago. The last game was just as exciting as yesterday’s, and everyone has been commenting that these two teams should just play each other all the time. I certainly wouldn’t mind watching the Giants beat them every time…I would hope. But the game is just want you want it to be for a Super Bowl –constant back and forth scoring, overturns, the right amount of sacks, incredible catches, both amazing and terrible calls, and a game that literally went up until the last second.

Everyone held their breath as Tom Brady threw the football halfway down the field one last time, as the ball every so slightly slipped out of reach. It was intense to say the least. Expect at least one more day of nonstop football news here in New York.

It has been a long time since there was a clear victory for unionized workers in New York. It seems that over the last few decades politicians have vilified labor unions more and more, making  workers less and less likely to vote for unionization even as their wages have done a poor job of covering expenses and benefits have become increasingly scarce.

So any fans of labor unions would be proud of some local Brooklyn news coming in this week. This week Brooklyn Cablevision workers have voted to unionize. 282 workers mostly  technicians and dispatchers voted on Thursday to join the union the Communications Workers of America. The union is the largest telecommunications union in the world and includes 700,000 other workers. Cablevision of course released a statement that they were “disappointed” about the results of the vote.

The effort to unionize apparently began on December 2nd 2011 when more than 70% of the company’s workers submitted union registration cards. The results of this vote could reverberate throughout the cable industry and have an affect on customers prices. For the workers the results will be a leg up in contract negotiations.

With a wealth of non-native New Yorkers forever influxing to the five boroughs and especially Brooklyn etiquette that should have long ago been established as consistent and never wavering sometimes gets mucked up. Staying to the right on the sidewalk for example to allow the faster and crazier New Yorkers to jut around you is a pretty standard “rule” that gets ignored all too often.

More significantly though is the new New Yorker’s disrespect of bagel culture. It is not that they do not appreciate the greatest carbohydrate New York and Brooklyn have to offer, it’s that they do so all wrong. Some of these people do something that would have any self respecting Brooklynite feeling defeated and angry. They have the nerve to toast perfectly good bagels ruining their doughy softness and making them into just some regular old toasted bread.

A Brooklyn bagel is not the same as those dumb things you get in a frozen bag at your local supermarket and to toast one is a crime against culinary justice. A nefarious and vile act that should be grounds for sending people to some Brooklyn salt mine deep in East New York.

This might not be Brooklyn news but apparently it is to some.

The best place to find love these days isn’t at a bar. Apparently it’s not even online on websites like Match.com or OKCupid. It’s at Brooklyn Bowl on Wednesday nights. Brooklynites who are tired of the bar scene might want to try their hand at a singles bowling league. Jake Reuben, founder of Singles Social Sports, wanted to launch a winter league after the success of his softball league.

There are about 100 members divided into eight teams, four guys and four girls on each team. The league lasts seven weeks, giving you plenty of time to potentially find a mate, or at least some people who know how to handle large balls. But don’t feel ashamed if you need bumpers. No one is expecting you to be that great. Actually, the worse you are, the more adorable you look to others. Or at least that works to a woman’s advantage. Even if you don’t find your soulmate, the fee is only $100 which is much cheaper than going to Brooklyn Bowl on your own.

Get a cute pair of bowling shoes, because those ugly shoes are totally in, and see if you can manage a love strike –dorky pun intended.

Here's Leighton Meister sitting in a hallway.

Just before 9/11 many writers had contemplated what they called “The End of History.” We lived in relative peace and prosperity and progress be it technological or sociological had sped up so much that keeping track of it was no longer tenable. Of course now we know that those who predict the death of history are doomed to be rocked to the core by it.

Then there are slow news days. Lately, post #OccupyWallStreet, I’m feeling a bit of a lack of history locally. Of course am I asking for trouble simply by mentioning this dearth of eventfulness? Probably.

Brooklyn news these days can be tragic on a hyper local scale(a man was shot by the police in his own home last night) or almost about the fact that nothing is happening(have your heard the Nets are a thing that will eventually happen here). What it is not in the last few weeks is world changing important cultural, political and economic shifts. Where are those stories?

The last decade Brooklyn has played a big role in the collective consciousness. Perhaps we have now entered into a period of cultural insignificance. More likely though the sky will cave in in some way or maybe something huge and good will happen.

Monday the 16th is Martin Luther King Jr Day and Brooklyn will have a ton going on to celebrate this historical figure this weekend.

On Saturday the 14th, Habitat for Humanity is celebrating at  Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church with a reciting of  the famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A  commemorative poem will also be performed  by the NYCHA Youth Chorus. The event is free and is  happening at 2 pm.

The Brooklyn Children Museum will be celebrating from 2:30 to 3:30 where kids 6 and up can explore the ideas that Martin Luther King Jr spoke about and fought for. They’ll also be teaching the values of celebrating and joining together cultures and living in peace with each other.

On the holiday itself on Monday, the Brooklyn Art Museum (BAM)  with celebrate its 26th annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr with keynote speakers  and musical performances. It all starts at 10:30 am  and tickets must be purchased. It’s first come, first seated so get there early!

The Brooklyn Botanical Gardens will be offering free admission in honor of the holiday as well, so take that day off from work to go enjoy the winter flora!