At least 3 to 4 times a day the Mikey’s Hookup in Dumbo is asked “Is this a real fire hydrant, can I park here?”
The real answer is Yes and No
I’ve seen NYC traffic tow trucks make round after round scooping cars up and coming right back for more. It hurts to watch . I’ve also seen traffic cops walk right by and don’t feel it’s right to ticket cause of it’s placement
It is a real live hydrant thats a fact.
The curb was extended 3-4 years back when Front st. in Dumbo Brooklyn was getting a face lift. The  city workers thought it was to much work to move the hydrant in a visible spot.
I’ve ask a number of different traffic officers and they all have different opinions about it.
-NYC parking violation code 40
Stopping, standing or parking closer than 15 feet of a fire hydrant. Between sunrise and sunset, a passenger vehicle may stand alongside a hydrant as long as a driver remains behind the wheel and is ready to move the vehicle if required to do so.-
The hydrant is over 9 feet from the curb. So does that mean you really only need to park 6ft from it? There is nothing in the violation code stating the hydrant must be 15ft from the front or back of the vehicle . It just says “closer than 15ft”.
Don’t worry though. I’m sure it’ll get fixed sometime in the next 15 years. So be careful next time visiting the Dumbo MHU

The Dumbo Hookup staff as well as E.T are showing the love. If we had a poster of Farrah Fawcett we’d be doing the same for her. They’ll both be missed.

“Hookup Staff,” people always ask me, “how can I attain your impressive level of knowledge and physical vigor?” Well, readers, there are lots of ways. Perhaps the easiest way to start on the path to enlightenment the Hookup way is by listening to The Quiet Storm, the staff-made and staff-loved radio station. It’s a great soundtrack for repairs, sales, or table tennis. And each an every time we cue it up, it goes out to all the ladies.

To listen at home, click this:
the quiet storm-pandora

pop a straw in an ice cold Camacho and hold a few IDE cables to really replicate the Hookup experience. You won’t regret it.

Last weeks lightning storm in Brooklyn decided to pay a visit to a Williamsburg Mac Pro. The lightning went through the cable modem and straight into the logic boards ethernet card of this expensive beast. A small hole was actually blown through the metal casing. Guess what? After hours of testing and cleanup by Phil, (Mikey’s Hookup Apple Service Manager) the Mac functions perfectly fine except for the ethernet card. Nothing a Sonnet PCI-e gigabit card couldn’t fix.

Mikey’s new favorite coffee drink which would usually be asked for as an iced americano with two pumps of chocolate has finally got it’s own name. Next time you’re at the Verb Cafe on Bedford ave. and you want this delicious beverage, save your breath and time by asking for a CAMACHO. Inspired by President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

Matt Kane (Dumbo Hookup Apple Technician) co-stars in this New York Times story about a failing hard drive . The Great Crash-By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN link to article

Cloth or plastic. Thats the big decision lately at both the stores. Customers are having a hard time choosing what might protect their prized possession the best. When pulling your laptop out of a bag the plastic shells might protect from the usual scratches but not from the accidental drop as much as a nicely padded sleeve.

Mikey’s Hookup has been carrying Spire padded Laptop cases since 2003 and they keep on making great updates to their line every year. We now carry the Speck and Macally hard shell cases as well. Call me old fashion but I love my Spire padded sleeve.

The Dumbo Hookup customers definitely have a more professional quality in their Ping Pong game. But Williamsburg customers are showing some sharp skills lately that might lead up to a Dumbo-Burg tournament.

A common service we do at Mikey’s Hookup is performing Data Recovery on Customers “Backup” hard drive. If it was really the backup hard drive then Data Recovery wouldn’t be necessary because it’s your backup. Most people are using their Hard drive as external storage and not for backing up. I know you might not want to buy another hard drive, but having one for external storage and one for your actual Backup is the safe way to go and will save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars in the future. Both Dumbo and Williamsburg Brooklyn locations stock a wide variety of portable to desktop size drives.  

Last week Apple announced the new line of  Apple Laptops adding Firewire 800 and an SD slot to the 13″ and 15″ Macbook Pro. The SD slot can allow DJ’s to carry their extra music on tiny 16gb or 32gb cards. Less crap to carry around when you DJ in a PBR filled Brooklyn bar.