EVENT: Tonight's Downtown Third Thursday seems promising. Pete Hamill, author of Downtown: My Manhattan, will be on hand at 41 Broad Street, a "Classical Revival style building designed by Cross and Cross Architects completed in 1929 as the headquarters of the Lee-Higginson Bank. The original grand banking hall with its marble mosaic columns now houses the Broad Street Ballroom." The NY Times has more on the rarely seen space.

6pm // 41 Broad St // Free

DRINK: Vintage Beer Night '08: Barcade is busting into their stash and sharing 10 kegs of some of their rare vintage beer, including two from NYC's own Sixpoint Ales that are no longer in production. Taste the likes of 2006 Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA, which packs a whopping 21.0% alcohol, or the 2005 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. - Laren Spirer

6pm, Barcade [388 Union Ave, Brooklyn] // Free

MEETING: Tonight join in on the "Town Hall" meeting sponsored by the Greenpoint Waterfront Assocation for Parks & Planning. From their email: "The neighborhoods of Greenpoint/ Williamsburg are at a point of crisis and opportunity. Crisis because rampant development threatens what little open space and parks we have. Promises of additional open space made in the 2005 rezoning have never materialized. However, opportunities abound. We have promises made for terrific park facilities all over the neighborhood. We just have to make it happen." More at Metro.

7pm // Warsaw [261 Driggs Ave, Brooklyn] // Free

MUSIC: We just heard about this band Land of Tomorrow, so we can't vouch for their live show -- but what we've heard sounds pretty interesting. Listen to some songs at their MySpace and if you like what you hear, they're playing at Cake Shop tonight with Mike Bones, The Ages, and Tulipss. They even made a sci-fi video flyer for the show.

8pm // Cake Shop [152 Ludlow St] // $6

THEATER: The gory 1963 movie Blood Feast is considered by some to be the first slasher flick; the ludicrous plot concerns an Egyptian caterer who kills people so he can have ingredients for his meals and perform sacrifices to the goddess Ishtar. For tonight only, you can sample Richard Toth’s theatrical mash-up of the movie. Called Foodstable, the show “takes a hatchet to the film’s contents” in the spirit of William Burroughs's cut-ups. Using samples of Blood Feast’s dialogue, raucous song and zany dance, Foodstable serves up what one critic described as “a combination of slapstick merriment, blank verse, puppetry, high drama, improvisation, fairy tale, magic and romance.” – John Del Signore

8:30pm // HERE Arts Center [145 Sixth Ave] // Tickets cost $15

COMEDY: There's a new comedy night at a fairly new bar in Williamsburg this eve. Hugs Bar, anyone been? Gabe & Jenny are throwing down the funny with a bi-weekly event there called "A New Experience." Tonight they welcome Max Silvestri, Eugene Mirman and Cracked Out.

9pm // Hugs Bar [108 N 6th St, Williamsburg) // Free