Syfy presents Brooklyn Bridge Park’s 11th Anniversary Season of Movies With A View summer 2010, this year on the newly opened Pier 1. The first one begins tomorrow, Thursday, July 8. The full schedule is below. Ditch Plains will sell prepared meals from the Pier 1 Gatehouse on Thursday nights for Movies with a View, and will be open full-time later in July.

Note: Movies start at dusk. Chairs are not permitted on the lawns and alcohol and glass bottles are not permitted in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Thursday, July 8
Feature Film: Annie Hall (PG) 1977, 93 min
Short: Abbie Cancelled by Dumb Bunny
DJ: Ursula 1000

Thursday, July 15
Feature Film: Monsters vs. Aliens presented in 3D (PG) –2009, 94 min
(no short this night)
DJ: DJ Lupe Loop

Thursday, July 22
Feature Film: The Big Lebowski (R) – 1998, 117 min
Short: Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No by Christopher Isenberg
DJ: Cosmo Baker

Thursday, July 29
Feature Film: Rear Window (PG) – 1954, 112 min
Short: Sketches from Great Gull by Nicholas Laviola
DJ: DJ DRM

Thursday, August 5
Feature Film: Brokeback Mountain (R) – 2005, 134 min
Short: Last Address by Ira Sachs
DJ: Soulstatic

Thursday, August 12
Feature Film: Dreamgirls (PG 13) – 2006, 130 min
Short: S From Hell by Rodney Ascher
DJ: DJ Conquerrah

Thursday, August 19
Feature Film: The Blues Brothers (R) – 1980, 133 min
Short: Mr. Okra by T.G. Herrington
DJ: Soulstatic

Thursday, August 26
Feature Film: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (PG 13) – 1989, 127 min
Short: Jerrycan by Julius Avery
DJ: DJ Emch

Thursday, September 2
Feature Film: Public Vote! Check back at brooklynbridgepark.org for details.

The temperature hit 102 degrees today, breaking the old record of 101 set in 1999 in NYC (ref. Gothamist). According to the AccuWeather “RealFeel,” it actually feels like 109. Just think of the above photo from February when you’re outside today. Brrrr… That photo was taken just over 4 months ago.

Anyone at the Jacques Torres ice cream store or at Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory today? How are the lines there?

(Photo by jonathansegura)

The following are selected links from this past week on blogs and websites with discussion about Dumbo (and its neighboring areas):

• Featured Brunch: Vinegar Hill House, 02July10, City
• Spend a Day in: DUMBO, 29Jun10, Metrowize
• Grimaldi’s 1 of 10 most persistent lines, 29Jun10, Eater
• Hip-hop Fest Starts 7/5, 28Jun10, BK Paper
• Movies with a View Starts Next Week, 29Jun10, NYP
• NYC Food Film Festival, 30Jun10, Foodista
• Red Hook Lobster Pound Best Entrepreneur, 29Jun10, Inc
• Dumbo Clocktower for Lebron James, 30Jun10, NYDN
• Rob Kalin of Etsy, 29Jun10, Inc
• Sam Lessin and Darshan Somashekar of Drop.io, 29Jun10, Inc
• New Playground Equipment at Pier 1, 01Jul10, BHB

We saw this earlier this week on Pearl Street in Dumbo (between Halcyon the Shop and Dumbo Muffin (the cafe). This could be good news for men who are looking to get a haircut in the neighborhood. Salon de Quartier is the other hair care option in Dumbo, and caters to both men and women.

Also, the Dumbo Muffin cafe is moving to the space a few doors down to expand once the renovations are completed. According to a tip from a reader, they plan on acquiring a license to operate a bar and may rename it to “Archway Cafe”.

Barber Shop (Unnamed at this time)
59 Pearl Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

1st Thursdays DUMBO Gallery Walk is tonight. A few other events in the neighborhood:

1)
Gelf’s Varsity Letters sports reading series returns tonight, July 1, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Hyman, Elias Altman, and Will Leitch will read from and talk about their work. Hyman will examine youth sports and their dangers. Altman will bring stories from the latest, sports-themed issue of Lapham’s Quarterly. And Leitch will discuss father-son relationships around baseball.

Doors open at 7:00.
Event starts at 7:30. FREE!

Visit reBar, around the corner, afterward; attendees of Varsity Letters and other Gelf events get discounts on food and drink.

2)

Digital DUMBO #17 IWNY Wrap Up
July 1, 2010, 6:30-8:30pm

Did you miss out on Internet Week NY? Or maybe you had so much fun networking and crashing parties that you want to re-live it all over again?

Join us for a summary & wrap party Digital DUMBO style where we will showcase some of the work done for the event by Dumbo’s finest. We’re heading back to Galapagos and we hope to see you there to toast to another Internet Week NY event gone by!

Galapagos Art Space
16 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201