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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 [...]
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, [...]
Posted in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn Heights, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, Sex, Transportation on Mar 23rd, 2010
It was dark when Peter got off the subway in Brooklyn. The streets were thronged with people bound for movies, restaurants, bars or just strolling pleasurably in the night and eating hot dogs at the Fulton Street stands. With a feeling of orphan loss and mystery, and a kind of odd, enigmatical consolation, Peter hurried [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Fort Greene, Literature, Navy Yard, Sex, labor on Dec 31st, 2009
Cara Williams: The Redhead Hollywood Can’t Handle
Meet a beauty with a whim of iron
Two of best actresses in Hollywood are Brooklyn-born redheads with tempers as fiery as their hair. One of them, Oscar-winning Susan Hayward, learned to control her emotional explosions and became rich and famous as a result.
The other, Cara Williams, is equally [...]
Posted in All-City, Canarsie, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Park Slope, Sex, Transportation, politics on Dec 23rd, 2009
War Lust In Brooklyn
Two super patriots, one 12 and the other 15, were in jail today because their efforts on behalf of the safety of the U.S. involved a slight disregard for the law.
Radio Patrolmen Edward Murphy and Edgar Lavole were riding along at 3 a.m. today when they saw Robert Dier, the 15-year-old, standing [...]
Posted in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Crime, Downtown, Dyker Heights, Flicks, Fort Greene, Fort Hamilton, Navy Yard, Our Italian Friends, Sex, politics on Dec 22nd, 2009
Held For Masquerading As A Soldier
Twenty-two-year-old James Legosso, a “soldier” long a familiar figure in the Fort Hamilton section, will explain in Flatbush Court today why the cap and button insignia on his uniform belonged to a marine uniform, why sleeve chevrons indicated a sergeant major’s rank and where he got three medals which he [...]
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 [...]
Posted in All-City, Brooklyn Heights, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, Dumbo, Flicks, Gowanus, Kensington, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Park Slope, Poetry, Red Hook, labor, politics on Nov 10th, 2009
In honor of the great contributions Brooklyn’s mostly proud blind people have made to our Armed Forces over the years, I’m delighted to reintroduce this interview between a monocle-wearing historian, Brian Berger, and the nearly sightless novelist Jim Knipfel. As for Woodrow Wilson, the Staunton, Virginia native who presided over the first Armistice Day, he [...]
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 [...]
New York Calling
"By turns tender and irate
whimsical and reflective, it's
a great guide to Gotham's recent history."
-- Mike Wallace, co-author
of the Pulitzer Prize winning Gotham: A History of New York
City to 1898