Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crime, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gowanus, Gravesend, Poetry, Queens, Rockaways, South Brooklyn, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop, politics on May 30th, 2009
by Anonymous*: Glug glug glug? Both Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt believed it so, yes, but throughout the 1960s and into the early ’70s, I was a HUGE Beach Boys fan, thus I vastly prefer “Chug-A-Lug” (Chug-A-Lug). To those who disagree another term at the Gravesend School of Doo-Wop might be in order. “Fuck that, [...]
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Posted in All-City, City Line, Crime, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, East New York, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Marine Park, Midwood, Park Slope, Poetry, Queens, Religion, Rockaways, Sex, Subways, Transportation, politics on May 1st, 2009
What do I know about Queens? Besides every goddamn splinter in the boardwalk between Beach 116th and Beach 88th streets, and the memory of the mysteries (to a little kid) of Spanish girls at Playland, not too much. If that’s still a little more than, say, a “neighborhood blogger,” well… I thought that all city [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Dial J For Jewish, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flicks, Fort Greene, Manhattan, Queens, West Indian, politics on Apr 8th, 2009
Congratulations to the family and friends of activist Janet Jagan on a life meaningfully lived; Janet died last week in Georgetown at the age of 88. Janet was, of course, not only the former President of Guyana, but also the cousin and subject of our good friend Suzanne Wasserman’s documentary film, Thunder In Guyana (2003). [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Bronx, Brownsville, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, East Flatbush, East New York, Latino, Manhattan Beach, Navy Yard, Ocean Hill, Prospect Heights, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, Southern Thing, Sports, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop, politics on Mar 11th, 2009
Caz Dolowicz explains: Greetings from a secret location in Pinellas County, Florida, where I keep my winter quarters and where from, today, I’d like to introduce the new staff of Who Walk In Brooklyn. Over the weeks, months and years to (is a preposition) come (is a verb), I hope all of them will become [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bergen Beach, Brooklyn Heights, Coney Island, Cypress Hills, Downtown, East New York, Highland Park, Industrial, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, New Lots, Religion, Transportation, hip-hop, labor on Dec 4th, 2008
The Music Director serenades: Just when ya’ll thought it was safe to go back into the water, strange things are happening all over again. First, our good friend and recent interviewee, Suzanne Wasserman, will be appearing at the Brooklyn Historical Society tonight and speaking briefly during an evening of film. The BHS is located at [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Greene, Highland Park, Latino, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Paerdegat Basin, Red Hook, Weeksville, West Indian on Sep 1st, 2008
Berenice “The Abbott”/BZA breaks it down. All across the Brooklyn black belt (if you gotta ask… we can talk about it another time) the excitement is so thick in the air you can taste it. Tastes like jerk chicken? Often, yes, but not always. The Haitians have their goat, & once this clown over on [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Music, Ocean Hill, South Brooklyn, Transportation, West Indian, politics on Aug 28th, 2008
Junius Van Sinderen cleans up the mess. Greetings, blog people. Due to circumstances beyond the control of mere Ombudsman & Mrs. Manicotti’s cats (Mango, Percy & Kingfish) alike, some nations were accidentally excluded from Brian Berger’s Mighty Sparrow Appreciation & West Indian Day Parade preview post yesterday. Foremost among these was Grenada, one-time vacation spot [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Greene, Marine Park, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Prospect Heights, South Brooklyn, Weeksville, West Indian, politics on Aug 27th, 2008
streets are watching. The Publisher peeks too. The signs— & the flags— are all around us. They come from Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Bahamas. In Haiti & Brooklyn too they speak Creole or French. On Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights where Panama still runs the game, it might be [...]
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Posted in Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Bergen Beach, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Coney Island, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Homecrest, Kensington, Literature, Navy Yard, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Queens, Red Hook, Seagate, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Sunset Park, Transportation, Vinegar Hill, Weeksville, Williamsburg, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Aug 5th, 2008
Swan’s signs of the vernacular: ya’ll don’t have to read ‘em but life is a lot funnier if you do. For now, let’s just say that somewhere in Kings County— it could be Vanderbilt Avenue, it could be Van Brunt Street, it could be Varkens Hook— the Brooklyn Department of Transportation (BDOT) has begun talking [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coney Island, Crime, Cypress Hills, Dial J For Jewish, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Flicks, Gowanus, Gravesend, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Marine Park, Music, Ocean Hill, Our Italian Friends, The Food Writer, Transportation, Weeksville, graffiti, hip-hop on Aug 1st, 2008
Everyone goes home barefoot; Swan explains: Alright, I can’t front: I erred, badly. But Berenice “The Abbott”/BZA is the photographer, I just tap this or that button & hope for the best. Sometimes it works & sometimes… ya’ll should make sure the camera is charged. So while I intended to offer ya’ll dozens of the [...]
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