Posted in Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Carroll Gardens, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Irish, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Midwood, Music, Ocean Hill, Park Slope, Poetry, Queens, Red Hook, Religion, Rockaways, Sex, Transportation, West Indian, Williamsburg, hip-hop, labor, politics on Jun 29th, 2010
Ignorant of the ways of publicity and chance alike, I’m unsure how these things happen but HiLoBrow.com has just been named by Time magazine’s Best Blogs of the Year . I could make up some things but not that! We’ve been meaning to catch up with WWIB’s recently elusive publisher, Brian Berger, who doesn’t answer the phone, [...]
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There was once a very sad and impressionable man who lived in a shabby apartment in a desolate section of Queens. Grady was his name, and it had been quite a long time since anything had gone right for him. Eight months earlier, he’d been fired from his job at the pencil factory. It wasn’t [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bronx, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Manhattan, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sports, The Dodgers, Transportation, politics on May 31st, 2010
Hi. My name if Rutherford B. Trace, and I’m the new editor of this weblog. I beg pardon from the ongoing series Frederick Douglass In Brooklyn, which I will soon continue, to implore, beseech, encourage and even— in some cases— command all ya’ll who can get near Grand Army Plaza Tuesday June 1 to see the Internets [...]
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He was of all things a typical New Yorker, an Irishman who’d been driving a truck for the Post Office most of his worklife and was now headed for a girl in Denver and a new life. I think he was running away from something in NY, the law most likely. He was a real [...]
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Posted in Crime, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Navy Yard, Queens, Sex, South Brooklyn, Southern Thing, Wild Kingdom, politics on Jan 19th, 2010
The arrangements on the second— and top— floor at 37-57 82d Street were little, if any, short of ideal. The offices of Dr. Harold Schwartz, a chiropodist, occupied the front of the modest structure a block off Roosevelt Avenue in the heart of Jackson Heights, a prosperous middle-class residential district in New York City’s borough [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Boerum Hill, Bronx, Coffee, Coney Island, Crown Heights, Drugs, Flicks, Gowanus, Irish, Music, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sex, South Brooklyn, labor, politics on Dec 5th, 2009
Police Files, October 1958
On the morning of Tuesday, September 8th, the lonely strip of county road lying between Sauk City and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, was visited by death. Bloody, brutal and wanton death at the hand of a man with insane, murderous greed in his heart.
Mimi Lipson, Food and Beverage (2009)
Pinky’s New York [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Carroll Gardens, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Ocean Hill, Queens, Red Hook, Religion, Sex, Subways, graffiti, hip-hop, politics on Oct 26th, 2009
Emptying. Airmail: the garbage parts flutter and glide and plummet, thrown out in a sweet, athletic arc. They drop through morning sunlight into shade. The bag pulls its ripcord: disintegrates. Cans’ flat bottoms wink sun back, flash-flash, end over end: C and C Cola, Cerveza Rheingold, Raid (do not incinerate), Café Bustelo and Spam. One [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Bushwick, Crime, Downtown, Dumbo, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Navy Yard, Poetry, Queens, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, hip-hop, politics on Oct 5th, 2009
There’s a new book in town! Now that the professional mourners have put their veils and candles away, the enormity of the artistic life of Michael Jackson remains. To help us make sense of and celebrate those numerous achievements, Armond has put together a collection of his MJ writings under the title Keep Moving and [...]
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Posted in Crime, Downtown, Flatbush, Flicks, Fort Greene, Irish, Literature, Music, Our Italian Friends, Queens, Red Hook, South Brooklyn, Southern Thing, politics on Sep 25th, 2009
“Oh I like surprises.”
“Mojo,” repeated the man, going into his briefcase, his face flushing, swelling as he leaned over to fish something. “Oswald Mojo.”
Gnossos shaking his head, not recognizing the name, turning back to the wall, always cover your flanks. Leave the flanks exposed, they’ll tear right up the middle, nail you with a howitzer [...]
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Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Literature, Music, Queens, Red Hook, Sex, Transportation, labor on Sep 13th, 2009
In winter the ashen stucco houses shaped like Camel cigarette-boxes squat before the Bensonhurst bay-mist. Bensonhurst, low, flat, rheumatic marshland, is a realtor’s reclamation project. Many of the streets which may be compared to the booming oil cities of the Oklahoma country seem to have sprung up over night. The houses are a makeshift stage-setting [...]
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