16 NOVEMBER 8, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
Ridgewood club returns
with mobile sauna
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@CNGLOCAL.COM
Nowadays does not plan to close
its backyard for the chillier
months and will have a mobile
sauna run by HotBox starting in
November.
The drinking hole located near the
border of Ridgewood and Bushwick
at 56-06 Cooper Avenue will keep the
sauna open until 4 a.m. while off ering
fi re pits, space heaters and a 20-person
yurt to enjoy hot drinks from the bar.
“Winter is coming, but for us it
isn’t all bad news,” Nowadays posted
to Facebook. “Starting Friday, the
backyard is open for your shvitzing
pleasure with the welcome return of
HotBox Mobile Sauna. This year we’re
also throwing up a heated bell tent
with plenty of cushions for lounging.
Our outdoor bar will be enclosed and
we’ll also have fi re pits, blankets, and
of course, hot drinks.”
Nowadays also announced that the
planetarium is back and that every
Thursday starting Nov. 1 they will clear
the fl oor and “fi re up the sound system
and take a trip into the stratosphere,” with
a host of DJs including Stud1nt, Duane
Harriott, Hypnotic Spa and Josh Dunn.
The backyard portion of the club
will be free of cover charge.
Photo: Nowadays
all they’ve sacrificed to protect our freedom
Happy Veterans Day
CONGRESSWOMAN
GRACE MENG
Paid for and authorized by Grace For New York
Polish community
dedicated with city
holidays
BY MARK HALLUM
MHALLUM@CNGLOCAL.COM
With a strong Polish American
presence in both
the Ridgewood area and
close ties to Greenpoint, just south
of Long Island City, Councilman
Robert Holden passed three resolutions
in the City Council that
will commemorate immigrants
from Poland.
The first resolution will mark
the day Poland won its independence
1918 near the end of World
War I and make Nov. 11 an official
holiday across the city.
“I spent much of my childhood
with Polish-Americans living in
Queens and have kept many close
relationships with them to this
day,” said Councilman Holden. “It
is important that we honor the
selfless contributions of the Polish
throughout history, and I thank
my fellow Council members for
supporting these resolutions.”
Holden’s second resolution
establishes Oct. 11 as Casimir Pulaski
Day.
Pulaski was a freedom fighter
in Poland who joined American
Photo: Mark Hallum/Ridgewood Times
forces during the Revolutionary
War. The Pulaski Bridge which
spans Newtown Creek linking
Long Island City to the Polish
quarter of Greenpoint carries
his name.
Lastly, Tadeusz Kosciuszko Day
will be marked on Oct. 15 for the
Polish immigrant who also joined
Continental forces in the Revolutionary
War and served as its
chief engineer.
Kosciuszko Bridge along the
Brooklyn Queens Expressway is
currently undergoing a rebuild
with the southbound span progressing
quickly.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the
state Department of Transportation
cut the ribbon on what will be
the northbound span of the bridge
in May 2017 and demolished the
old steel bridge viewed as an aging
blemish.
Built in the 1950s, the old span of
the Kosciuszko Bridge was demolished
in October 2017.
Kosciuszko is remembered for
dedicating the proceeds from his
American estate to freeing and educating
African-Americans after
his death on Oct. 15, 1817.
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