Saturday Linkage

It's been a hot, humid, lazy week. Just a few links.

The Voice finds an rarity at Fei Long Market.

Sunset Park is a tourist destination. (Or someone's trying really hard to make it one.)

Sunset Park man honored with Spanish citizenship for fighting Franco.

A Couple of Links about Sunset Park for (possibly) Rainy Weekend Reading

The Brooklyn Eagle went to Wednesday's Re-Zoning Public Hearing.

Here's a little something about Sunset Park's Chinese immigrants helping Brooklyn keep its Borough of Churches name.

And here's the most obvious complaint I've heard in a while. It has to do with illegal postering on 8th Avenue. How is this not just a constant blip on the radar?

And here's one local man's ire about the illegal postering.

Make sure to also read the third comment to this article about street vendors staying on (or off of) 5th Avenue.

Links for a Sunset Sunday

Counterfeit Operation Bust

Rezoning of Sunset Park up for Public Comment

New Charter School Recruiting

Brooklyn Food Conference
from the Brooklyn Eagle article:

Worrisome indicators about the state of the borough’s health highlight serious systemic shortcomings. Conference literature sites a “Supermarket Need Index” created by the Department of City Planning, which determined that three million New Yorkers live in neighborhoods with a high need for grocery stores. In Brooklyn, those neighborhoods are Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, East New York and Sunset Park.

Gleaned Sunset Links

Here are a few links of Sunset interest lifted from sites much more diligent than this one:

via Brownstoner Savings in Sunset Park [NY Daily News]
- The most interesting thing about this list of places is the information about Tony Garofalo, the owner of Tony's Barber Shop. He's such a nice guy. The weirdest thing is the "savings" at the 5th Avenue C-Town. Sounds pretty standard to me.

from Gothamist: Brooklyn Sex Club Shut Down By Judge!
- Lots of good links to get the background in case you missed the hullabaloo when the NYT got kinky with the club.

And because you can't get enough about sex clubs on a Wednesday:

via Curbed · Sunset Park sex club closed six weeks after NYT profiled it [NY Law Journal]
- I thought this place was considered Greenwood Heights, but maybe I'm getting my swinger/sex clubs mixed up. Or maybe it's just another case of the really good stuff being considered Sunset Park.

Wednesday Links: Opinionated Food Blogs in a Sunset Park State of Mind

These two links will save you a lot of trial and error. If you enjoy trial and error, let us know about what you found was excellent, mediocre, or truly awful.

The Search for a Good Noodle Soup - Fine Furious Life

The Search for a Good Taco - Writing with My Mouth Full

The Meat Market and What to do With What They've Got - Fein Dining

Monday Links: Positive Stories about Sunset Park

Sunset Park's "Mother Teresa" is Honored - Rocco Basile

The Journey of a Mural at Charles O. Dewey - We Are Here: MS 136 Community Mural

New Blog from Friends of Sunset Park

And Why Not: Another Feature about Banh Mi that mentions Sunset Park (Three times!)