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Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. who are they? — Brooklynian

Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. who are they?

tk was me!
tk was me!
edited November -1 in Prospect Heights
Does anyone know what they do?

I went to their website but i am totally lost...
If any of you have any info, that will make me so happy.

Thanks in advance.

Comments

  • emily
    emily
    http://www.gothamgazette.com/community/39/news/563

    It's the tutoring center for 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers's project. Just some silly hipster posturing...
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: superhero supply store

    I was intrigued by it one day as I passed last summer, wandered in and asked. I found out it was a free tutoring center for kids. They also offer free field trips for NYC public schools. Being a teacher, naturally I was thrilled. A free field trip to excite my kids about writing! Sign me up. And I can only imagine the kids faces as we enter the Superhero supply store!
  • jamesondean
    jamesondean
    Hate on it all you want, the place is fun and geared toward a good cause. After all, there are only so many places that stock canned Chaos...
  • bluedove
    bluedove
    EmilyM wrote: http://www.gothamgazette.com/community/39/news/563

    It's the tutoring center for 826 Valencia, Dave Eggers's project. Just some silly hipster posturing...
    What's with the attitude?

    826 NYC provides a great free service that encourages local children's creativity. My husband has volunteered for them and had a great experience getting kids up in the Bronx excited about comic writing. And the Superhero Supply Store front? With the shelf that swings out to reveal the hidden entrance to the tutoring center? Brilliant! I would have DIED for a place like that as a kid.
  • sje
    sje
    I find it very hard to believe there could be anything negative at all said about this place.
  • emily
    emily
    Sorry, I just hate Dave Eggers and his hangers-on. I don't have anything against tutoring.
  • sje
    sje
    Understood, E.
  • rhodamine
    rhodamine
    EmilyM wrote: Sorry, I just hate Dave Eggers and his hangers-on. I don't have anything against tutoring.
    youre anti-tutoring?!? WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM? :lol::lol::lol:

    :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:
  • captain m
    captain m
    Fianlly a place to get the goods I need to spread peace and justice.
  • pennysmith
    pennysmith
    Just some silly hipster posturing...
    Not to snark, seriously, but 826NYC is not a "Dave Eggers thing." He had something to do with its beginning, but by this point it's way beyond that. They've got offshoots in San Francisco, LA, Chicago, Seattle and Michigan.

    It's a wonderful organization that teaches kids to love reading.

    That may sound sort of fluffy and hipsteriffic, but the public schools that taught many of us to love reading have long since been given over to the powers that push standardized testing. Kids and teachers are so overwhelmed with busywork right now that there's no time left to find joy in it.

    826 sets up three-hour one-on-one tutoring sessions for kids with enthusiastic, devoted tutors -- the first hour is for their homework from school, the second hour they work on their own creative work -- comic books, short stories, etc -- and the third hour they work on group projects with the other kids. For almost all of the kids that frequent the place, this kind of tutoring is something their parents could never afford.

    Go here and take a look around. http://www.826nyc.org/ I am a huge fan of this place and do whatever I can to help raise money for them. It makes me sad to see their work dismissed as so much hipster posturing.
  • stacey
    stacey
    pennysmith wrote:
    Just some silly hipster posturing...
    It's a wonderful organization that teaches kids to love reading.

    That may sound sort of fluffy and hipsteriffic, but the public schools that taught many of us to love reading have long since been given over to the powers that push standardized testing. Kids and teachers are so overwhelmed with busywork right now that there's no time left to find joy in it.
    I totally applaud the work you and the Superhero Supply Store provide but I dont agree about teachers not teaching the children how to love reading. My son has been in public school since pre-k and if there is one thing they did instill in him is a love for reading. Each morning the children (in all grades) sit down to a morning meeting in which they discuss the book they are reading or the book the teacher has read. After that there is usually a discussion about the book i.e., what was the genre of the book, who was the main character, what did the story tell, etc. I understand your point about pushing the standardized testing - they do have practice tests often - but these new batch of teachers, at least the ones that PS 9 has been getting, is fantastic and I dont want to sell them short.

    Please keep up the good work and keep volunteering.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    The store in SF is a pirate theme. Cool, but not as cool as the superhero store.
  • flute
    flute
    Hey, hey, hey !! I LOVE my Superhero T-shirt.

    But seriously, I think they have a very unique concept going on and the "retail" portion of the store is purely to provide funding for the tutoring they do (or so I was told and I believed them).

    I heard, as well, that last year or so David Byrne gave a small concert as a fundraising endeavor.

    I think they are GREAT and WAY COOL (or, in the terms of some of the bloggers here, "WICKED COOL").

    :P
  • flute
    flute
    rhodamine wrote: [quote=EmilyM]Sorry, I just hate Dave Eggers and his hangers-on. I don't have anything against tutoring.
    youre anti-tutoring?!? WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM? :lol::lol::lol:

    :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea: :idea:


    Noooo .... she said she had nothing against tutoring !!!
  • stacey
    stacey
    FLUTE wrote: I think they are GREAT and WAY COOL (or, in the terms of some of the bloggers here, "WICKED COOL"). :P
    FLUTE as a Grand Master you should know that its MAD HOT not WICKED COOL :lol::lol::lol:
  • tk was me!
    tk was me!
    FLUTE wrote: Hey, hey, hey !! I LOVE my Superhero T-shirt.

    But seriously, I think they have a very unique concept going on and the "retail" portion of the store is purely to provide funding for the tutoring they do (or so I was told and I believed them).

    I heard, as well, that last year or so David Byrne gave a small concert as a fundraising endeavor.

    I think they are GREAT and WAY COOL (or, in the terms of some of the bloggers here, "WICKED COOL").

    :P
    They just did a fundraising fashion show. Marc Jacobs, Zac Posen and other designers designed for Superheroes.

    I hope they raised good money so they could keep doing a great thing for kids.
  • flute
    flute
    stacey wrote: [quote=FLUTE]I think they are GREAT and WAY COOL (or, in the terms of some of the bloggers here, "WICKED COOL"). :P
    FLUTE as a Grand Master you should know that its MAD HOT not WICKED COOL :lol::lol::lol:

    :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

    I'll NEVER make that mistake AGAIN ...
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