Posted in Bushwick, Civil War, Downtown, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Hamilton, Irish, Literature, Music, Navy Yard, New Utrecht, politics, Red Hook, Sex, Williamsburg on Jul 22nd, 2010
As a man in the 12th Alabama wrote, “we were into it hot and heavy. I thought I had been in hot places before— I thought I had heard Minnie ball; but that day capped the climax.” Once in position the Alabamians stubbornly kept up a steady fire of their own, but they could not advance […]
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The boy leaps from the slippery edge of the pier out toward the scow tied up alongside it. He’s done this dozens of times over the past few years, timing the slow heave and slide of the clumsy vessel as the swells carry it toward the pier and then away from it, but this time […]
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Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, Kensington, labor, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, New Utrecht, Park Slope, politics, Transportation on May 4th, 2009
Salvador Hassan O’Leary, alias The Shoe Store Kid, alias Wrong Way Marv, alias After Birth Leary, alias Slunky Pete, alias Placenta Juan, alias K.Y. Ahmed, alias El Chinche, alias El Culito, etc., etc., for fifteen solid pages of dossier, first tangled with the law in NYC where he was traveling with a character known to […]
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Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Coffee, Coney Island, Dial J For Jewish, Literature, Manhattan, New Utrecht, Our Italian Friends, politics, Religion, Sports, Transportation on Dec 17th, 2008
Everybody say sh’ma! In the midst of city, state and federal affairs of unpleasant tiding, there came this Sunday at least some good news. Suzanne Wasserman, historian and filmmaker, wrote a piece about her father, Edward, for the New York Times, “A Bensonhurst Boyhood, Unlocked At Last”. I might have more to say about family, […]
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The boy leaps from the slippery edge of the pier out toward the scow tied up alongside it. He’s done this dozens of times over the past few years, timing the slow heave and slide of the clumsy vessel as the swells carry it toward the pier and then away from it, but this time […]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Boerum Hill, Boro Park, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, Downtown, Drugs, Dumbo, Dyker Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Highland Park, hip-hop, Kensington, Literature, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, politics, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Subways, Sunset Park, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, Windsor Terrace on Jul 11th, 2008
Drunk on Albemarle. Drunk on Bond Street. Drunk on Cortelyou. Drunk in Ditmas Park. Drunk on Evergreen— Bushwick stand up! Drunk on Force Tube. Drunk in Gravesend. Drunk on Hinsdale. Drunk on India Street. Drunk on Jamaica Ave. Drunk in Kensington (they will get the services their property values demand). Drunk on Avenue L (the […]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Boro Park, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, City Line, Coney Island, Crime, Cypress Hills, Drugs, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatlands, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, graffiti, Highland Park, hip-hop, Homecrest, Kensington, Latino, Literature, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, politics, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Transportation on Jul 2nd, 2008
WWIB Transportation Editor, Swan, explains: Ya’ll can check the record, we went for Barry early— who the hell wouldn’t have? Not the Mighty Sparrow! All three Clintons are venal, John Edwards was a stiff, Dennis Kucinich had a hot wife & no traction: please, let’s not relive the nightmare again so soon; gracias. Today, however, […]
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Posted in All-City, Bensonhurst, Bronx, Flicks, graffiti, Gravesend, hip-hop, Irish, Latino, Manhattan, Music, New Utrecht, Our Italian Friends, politics, Religion, Sex, Southern Thing, Subways, The Food Writer, Transportation on Apr 10th, 2008
Beadel Debevoise says yes! & for a mere $5 ya’ll can discover it Kevin Walsh-style at 1 pm the 20th of April. Tito Puente was born that day in 1923 & if the weather is right, maybe Kevin will sing a few verses of “Mambo Gazon.” WWIB hasn’t repped it much lately but the latin […]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Crime, Dumbo, Flicks, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Industrial, Irish, Literature, Manhattan, New Utrecht, South Brooklyn on Apr 4th, 2008
Junius Van Sinderen leads the charge: Yes, yes, yes everyone makes mistakes & bloggers ain’t an exception (quite the opposite) but ya’ll know that already. What does it say about scholarship, however, when erstwhile “authoritative” sources perpetuate baseless urban legend? Take the case of Buttermilk Channel. According to more than one yokel, the waters between […]
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