{"id":6479,"date":"2009-08-28T10:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T14:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=6479"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:25:17","slug":"water-taxi-free-us-open-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/6479\/water-taxi-free-us-open-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Roundup: Eat Lobstah for a Good Cause, Celebrate MJ&#8217;s BDay, Free US Open Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets for the 3rd annual Taste of Red Hook fundraiser are now available; go for Red Hook Lobster Pound\u2019s lobster, Baked <a title=\"Baked Cupcakes article\" href=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/2007\/10\/08\/baked-brooklyn-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cupcakes<\/a>, Ikea, The Good Fork, stellar silent auction, and so much more. [rhicenter]<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Transportation is reviving \u201cWeekend Walks\u201d in Brooklyn Heights for the last three Sundays in September; dismayed at this year&#8217;s shorter schedule, some locals said the streets should be car-free every weekend. [<a title=\"Brooklyn PAper news item\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/32\/34\/32_34_rv_montague_street_plaza.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BKPaper<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>E.L. Doctorow will read from his latest book, &#8216;Homer and Langley,&#8217; at the Book Court on September 22. [<a title=\"Book Court\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bookcourt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BC<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the King of Pop&#8217;s 51st birthday at the Spike Lee-produced block party in Prospect Park. [NYT]<\/p>\n<p>Powerade Zero and Venus Williams have teamed up with NY Water Taxi to provide <em>free<\/em> ferry rides to the US Open Matches (August 31 to September 5). Sure beats the 7 train. [NYWaterTaxi]<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of free ferries, take the Governors Island one when the rain finally stops on Sunday to picnic and admire the art installation: \u201cPlot09: This World &amp; Nearer Ones.\u201d [NYMag]<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Courtesy <a title=\"Time In The Kitchen\" href=\"http:\/\/timeinthekitchen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">timeinthekitchen.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tickets for the 3rd annual Taste of Red Hook fundraiser are now available; go for Red Hook Lobster Pound\u2019s lobster, Baked cupcakes, Ikea, The Good Fork, stellar silent auction, and so much more. [rhicenter] The Department of Transportation is reviving \u201cWeekend Walks\u201d in Brooklyn Heights for the last three Sundays in September; dismayed at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,320,271],"tags":[38,213,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-6479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-news","9":"tag-brooklyn-heights","10":"tag-governors-island","11":"tag-red-hook"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}