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Posted in Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Crime, Park Slope, Poetry, Prospect Heights, politics on Jan 26th, 2010
Boys, 9 and 10 Years Old, Are Arrested as Burglars
Police Accuse Them of Stealing Jewelry Worth $500 From Brooklyn Dwelling
Two of the youngest burglary suspects wih whom Broolyn police ever had to deal were arrested yesterday and charged with entering the home of John Bliss, at 935 St. Mark’s Avenue.
The first prisoner charged with the [...]
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 All-City, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bergen Beach, Brooklyn Heights, Canarsie, Crime, Downtown, Flatbush, Manhattan, Park Slope, Poetry, Religion, Sex, Subways, Transportation, labor, politics on Sep 17th, 2009
Such are the compensations of poverty
to see—
like an electric fungus
sprung from its own effulgence
of intercircled jewelry
reflected on the pavement
like a reliquary sedan-chair,
out of a legend, dumped there,
before a ten-cent cinema,
a sugar-coated box office
enjail a Goddess
aglitter, in her runt of a tower
with a ritual claustrophobia
Such are the compensations of poverty
to see—
transient in the dust
the brilliancy
of a [...]
Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Coney Island, Crime, Downtown, Flicks, Literature, Music, Queens, Red Hook, Sex, Transportation, labor on Sep 13th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in All-City, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Crime, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Gravesend, Jazz, Music, Park Slope, Queens, Sex, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop, labor on Aug 26th, 2009
It’s been the same every August 22, or at least since then Brooklyn Borough President Sebastian Leone decreed it so in 1976: John Cazale Day! Less than two years later, the great actor was dead: the bone cancer. Director Sidney Lumet (b. 1924, and greatest maker of Brooklyn fims in the sound era*), the once [...]
Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Crown Heights, Flicks, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sunset Park, The Food Writer, Transportation, Wild Kingdom, politics on Jun 28th, 2009
(Or, The Education, & Dinner, of Caz Dolowicz)
Street Dude: What you doing on our turf, punk?
Caz Dolowicz: I got a rainbow for Smokey.
Dude: Give it to me.
Caz: You Smokey, man?
Dude: Gimme it!
Caz: If you ain’t Smokey, it’s not your motherfucking rainbow.
Dude: Motherfucker I said gimme the rainbow.
Caz: It’s from Willis Still Sunsweet, in Dallas (ll).
Dude: [...]
Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Boerum Hill, Bronx, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Gowanus, Industrial, Manhattan, Navy Yard, Queens, Red Hook, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, Staten Island, labor, politics on Jun 16th, 2009
Speaking of Red Hook Raiders*, there was some unusual activity in the neighborhood of Pioneer Park this Friday Night, which isn’t to say unique just… unusual. With the exception of our respected colleague and recent interviewee Lost City Brooks, WWIB has had just about zero use for any of the Red Hook or related blogs [...]
Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Bronx, Brownsville, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Downtown, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Jazz, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Manhattan Beach, Music, Poetry, Queens, Red Hook, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, Sports, Staten Island, Sunset Park, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, Williamsburg, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on May 20th, 2009
Cocktails
and signs of
“ads”
flashing,
light’s waterfalls,
— Louis Zukofsky, from “55 Poems” (1941)
Now and then there are flashes in the world of business, finance, sport, art or theatricals a colorful figure which comes we know not whence or how. But because it exerts enormous influence and kicks up dust generally, and because it works in its own manner, [...]
Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Dyker Heights, Gowanus, Queens, Religion, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Transportation on May 17th, 2009
Death loves a mystery. Death can’t get started. Death in high heels. Death makes the world go ’round. Death in a Class A uniform. Death at the Dakota. Death your magic spell is everywhere. Death is here to stay. Death goes to the movies. Death is marching on. Death travels to Samarra. Death and his [...]
Posted in Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Crime, Dyker Heights, Southern Thing, The Dodgers, politics on Apr 10th, 2009
This isn’t funny so try not to laugh: Flyers festoon the walls, lampposts, electrical boxes and kiosks of downtown Athens, GA, where the the pollen is also abundant. At first I thought this was a goof— wait, wait, Bandita was stolen?! But that’s because my Spanish is rusty and in fact, bandita is not a [...]
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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