John Marciano Argues Red Hook Chicken Better Than Fairway Turkey

Freebird offers free bird (courtesy of author John Marciano, who illustrated the picture above) and Greenpoint bookstore makes customers eat their Word

At Freebird we are tired of the Heights, Williamsburgh, and the Navy Yard getting in our way. On Sunday, November 15, we join hands with our friends to the north, Greenpoint’s WORD , in a post-Halloween / pre-Thanksgiving gesture of goodwill.

In simultaneous events featuring local food and local authors, WORD and Freebird celebrate Independent Bookstore Week NYC in classic Brooklyn waterfront fashion. Challenging residents in each community to go the distance, we encourage our patrons to pedal or bus between locations.

Events will take place at both stores on Sunday, November 15 from 2-4pm. The B61 bus stops directly in front of the store. WORD is located at 126 Franklin Avenue in Greenpoint. The B61 bus stops a block away at the corner of Manhattan and Greenpoint avenues.

While we host John Marciano, author and illustrator of Anonyponymous who will share stories as we roast chickens raised on his nearby Red Hook lot, WORDers will receive Randall and Peter de Sève (author and illustrator of the Duchess of Whimsey) and munch on grilled cheese sandwiches and sip milk from local vendors of the Greenpoint Food Market.

Currently linked by the B61 bus—though, according to the MTA, not for much longer—the Greenpoint-Red Hook corridor is one of the unsung wonders of Brooklyn, the future route of the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway, a landscaped 14-mile bike path now under construction.

“The idea is that people make a day of it – pick one of the two events to attend, and then either before or afterwards, take the bus or bike to visit the other store as well,” says WORD event coordinator Kelly Amabile. “We want to encourage readers to be riders too, traveling between literary locations for the sheer fun of it. We can promote shopping local and eating local all at once too!”

From the blue hard plastic benches of the B61 or your Schwinn banana seat, ride past Hasidim, hipsters, and Heights-dwellers in a cultural exchange of Marty Markowitz proportions. Prove that you don’t always need to make Manhattan your muse. Revel in the best your neighbors have to offer. Relish the contributions your indie shopkeepers make to the community.

And buy a fricking book for the holiday. It won’t give you swine flu and is cheaper than Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular.

For more information about the First Independent Bookstore Week NYC, see http://www.ibnyc.org/

ABOUT WORD
WORD, an independent bookstore located on the corner of Franklin and Milton Streets in the historic district of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, features a wide variety of new books: literary fiction, non-fiction, gift books, kids’ books, puzzles and more. We also carry a large selection of stationery, boxed notecards and journals. For more information about WORD or any of these events, contact us at 718-383-0096 or email kelly@wordbrooklyn.com. Check out our website at http://wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com/events/ and follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/wordbrooklyn (@wordbrooklyn)

DIRECTIONS: go to http://www.freebirdbooks.com/directions.html or http://wordbrooklyn.wordpress.com/map/