Posted in All-City, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Fort Greene, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Navy Yard, Religion, Sex on Aug 21st, 2010
MANY STORIES TOLD
OF GIRLS DRUGGED,
AS WAS MRS. GRAFF
Anti-Vice Societies, However,
Have Been Unable to Sub-
stantiate the Tales
APPARENTLY WELL FOUNDED
“Dope” Put In Soda Water at Fount-
ains and Girls Stabbed With
Needles at Movies
Point was given today, to the remarkable story of the arrest of Armand Megaro, charged by Mrs. Marjorie Graff, a Brooklyn girl, and a bride of [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bronx, Crime, Drugs, Flicks, Latino, Music, Religion, Sex, labor, politics on Jul 5th, 2010
“There is nothing that ever happens to a woman or a man that he or she doesn’t cause to happen, whether it’s on a mystical level or whether it’s on a spiritual level or whether it’s on a human level.”
“What is good, bad, right and wrong? There are only 1 through 9 numbers. There are [...]
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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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Akhilleus, prince and greatest of the Akhains,
be forebearing. They are badly hurt.
All who were the best fighters are now lying
among the ships with spear or arrow wounds.
Diomêdès, Tydeus’ rugged son, was shot;
Odysseus and Agamémnon, the great spearman,
have spear wounds; Eurýpylos
took an arrow shot deep in his thigh.
Surgeons with medicines are attending them
to ease their wounds.
But [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Literature, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Red Hook, Religion, South Brooklyn, Southern Thing, Transportation, Vinegar Hill, labor, politics on May 29th, 2010
Douglass’ advocacy of slave revolt was a view shared much more widely among black than among white abolitionists. In 1856, Lewis Tappan became alarmed at Douglass’ “vengeance is mine” attitude toward slaveholders. “In your speeches and in your paper,” Tappan complained, “you advocate the slaughter of slaveholders. I cannot go with you.” He accused [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bed-Stuy, Downtown, Fort Greene, Literature, Religion, Southern Thing, Weeksville, West Indian, politics on May 20th, 2010
IN MEMORY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A meeting to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass was held last night in the Concord Baptist Church of Christ on Duffield street. Among the speakers was the Rev. Hiram Hutchins, whose 85 years, it is said, make him the oldest living abolitionist. Others who addressed the meeting included the Rev. [...]
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Posted in All-City, Downtown, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Music, Poetry, Religion, Sex, Transportation, labor, politics on Mar 31st, 2010
“Gad, Easter, where was I?”— “The soft son, the flowers and here I was going down the street and thinking ‘Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Flicks, Irish, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, Religion, Sex, Sunset Park, Transportation, labor, politics on Mar 7th, 2010
“My brother’s in the Coast Guard,” Lee told him. “That’s why we’re here. He’s stationed in Ellis Island. Port security it’s called.”
“My brother’s in Korea now.”
“My other brother’s in the Marines. They might send him to Korea. That’s what I’m worried about.”
“It’s not the Koreans you have to worry about,” Nicky Black said. “It’s the [...]
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On February 15, 1956, the social spotlight flashed into General Sessions Court where a habitue of Bank Account Alley appeared before Judge John A. Mullen and pleaded guilty to two counts covering a $170,000 swindle. Originally, playboy Robert H. Schlesinger had been charged with eight counts totaling $330,00 gained by his fraud. Schlesinger is Park [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Downtown, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Latino, Navy Yard, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Religion, Sex, Transportation, West Indian, politics on Dec 25th, 2009
Sometimes Hoover’s floating animosity tended to attach itself to one of his victims. Increasingly alarmed that Eleanor Roosevelt’s concern for the Negro was likely to churn up social disorder, Hoover tiptoed into the subject with FDR. “The president says the old bitch is going through the change of life and we’ll just have to put [...]
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