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 Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, East New York, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Fort Hamilton, Greenpoint, Jazz, Literature, Navy Yard, Park Slope, Red Hook, Sex, South Brooklyn, Williamsburg, politics on Jul 31st, 2010
I don’t think Faulkner is worth the antebellum South, and I would rather not have had Kafka at the proce of twentieth-century European carnage. But in trying to locate contemporary American writing I look at the thirties, that supposedly meager decade if misfired artistic energy and of duped intellectuals and bad proletarian novels, and I [...]
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Posted in Bushwick, Civil War, Downtown, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Hamilton, Irish, Literature, Music, Navy Yard, New Utrecht, Red Hook, Sex, Williamsburg, politics 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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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 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 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 [...]
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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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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 [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Coffee, Crown Heights, Downtown, Flatbush, Literature, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Religion, Sex, Sunset Park, Vinegar Hill, politics on Dec 16th, 2009
Arnold Schoenberg was from from Vienna but later moved to Los Angeles, with stops in Berlin, Paris, Boston and New York in between. Caz Dolowicz was from Sands Street, but later moved to Bay Ridge, with a few years in Crown Heights, Flatbush and Marine Park in between. Arnold Schoenberg was born Jewish in 1874, [...]
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330 Blind in Boro Making ‘Weapons’ For Armed Forces
Cashmore Urges Brooklyn Support Drive For Unfortunate
Some 330 blind men and women of Brooklyn, “making weapons of a sort for our men in the services,” are engaged almost exclusively in war production, Borough President Cashmore said in an appeal for the 1942 Brooklyn Week for the Blind [...]
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