28
Sep/13

ATLANTIC ANTIC 2013

28
Sep/13
Atlantic Antic

A huge crowd is expected at the annual Atlantic Antic festival, which this year honors Marty Markowitz

Atlantic Ave. between Hicks St. & Fourth Ave.
Sunday, September 29, free, 12 noon – 6:00 pm
www.atlanticave.org

The centerpiece of the thirty-eighth annual Atlantic Antic, a free festival of food, music, games, family-friendly activities, and more taking place Sunday, September 29, along Atlantic Ave., is a public farewell to outgoing borough president Marty Markowitz, who will be crowned honorary King of Brooklyn. More than a million visitors are expected for the party, which includes live performances indoors and outdoors, with the Windsor Terrors, the Black Coffee Blues Band, Strictly Belly Dancing, Les Sans Culottes, Liam the Magician, a domino tournament, Rolie Polie Guacamole, DJ Hard Hittin Harry, a book signing and reading by Melanie Hope Greenberg, teen jazz duo Octave Higher, Brandi and the Alexanders, Boricua Betty, the Get It, Junior Rivera and Son de Caney, the Dysfunctional Family Jazz Band, and many others. Among the participating establishments are the Chip Shop, the Waterfront Ale House, the Brazen Head, Pacheco & Lugo, Khamit Kinks, Last Exit, Gumbo, and Hank’s Saloon, and there will be local booths galore selling all kinds of items you won’t find at standard street fairs. And for the twentieth year, the New York Transit Museum is hosting the Bus Festival on Boerum Pl. between State St. & Atlantic Ave., featuring vintage buses, workshops, free tours, and other fun things, with admission to the museum only one dollar.