Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Boerum Hill, Brighton Beach, Civil War, Coney Island, Downtown, Irish, Literature, Music, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Sex, politics on Sep 4th, 2010
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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Posted in Bay Ridge, Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Park Slope, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, Sports, Sunset Park, Transportation on Aug 10th, 2010
Believe it or not, it was my bike. This one I had bought at Madison Square Garden, at the end of a six-day race. It had been made in Chemnitz, Bohemia and the six-day rider who owned it was a German, I believe. What distinguished it from other racing bikes was that the upper bar [...]
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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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FRI. 28— Yesterday and today went to school; sat in on interesting lectures by Wm. Troy, Shapiro, et al; had talks with Holmes, Allen, and Geo. Bouwman at his home in Brooklyn; a few beers on the antique Brooklyn waterfront, Spanish whores, etc; saw Ruth Sloane; get Muriel and battled around two days with her, a [...]
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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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Posted in All-City, Carroll Gardens, Chinatown, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Dial J For Jewish, Literature, Sex, South Brooklyn, hip-hop, politics on Feb 11th, 2010
Ya’ll know the four great classic Chinese novels, right? Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey To The West and Dream of the Red Chamber. We’ll discuss translations and swap drunken monk stories another post but one translator of Water Margin— also known as Outlaws of the Marsh— is one Sidney Shapiro (b. [...]
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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 [...]
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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, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Heights, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, Irish, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, Transportation, labor, politics on Nov 24th, 2009
Sante? He was just a five letter word in the headlines to me. I vaguely knew he’d done some things— maybe even great things— but not until an hour ago did I know realize was a poet too. But, lo and behold, here I am, house sitting in Gowanus and there it is, snug between [...]
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Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Brighton Beach, Bronx, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Drugs, East Flatbush, Gowanus, Literature, Manhattan, Park Slope, Red Hook, Sex, South Brooklyn, Subways, Transportation, labor on Nov 16th, 2009
“What Richard Abneg had carried forward, always, anyhow, was a certain sense of his own crucial place in the island’s life. He’d never copped out. And the beard, that too was uncompromised, continuous. He grew it when he was fifteen and reading Howard Zinn and Charles Bukowski and Emmett Grogan. I soaked up Harriet’s description [...]
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