Posted in All-City, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Crime, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, graffiti, Gravesend, hip-hop, Jazz, labor, Music, Park Slope, Queens, Sex, Transportation 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 […]
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Posted in All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boro Park, Crime, Flatbush, Flicks, Irish, Manhattan, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Music, politics, Queens, Rockaways, Sex, Subways, The Dodgers, The Food Writer, Transportation on Mar 15th, 2009
Chistine Haughney of the Times recently took the long ride (from pretty much everywhere but Marine Park and Broad Channel) out to Beach 116th Street in Rockaway and found it rather wanting. This is not a surprise. If, for aesthetic reasons, I happen to love that Rockaway isn’t boomtown, there are lots of Radio Days […]
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Posted in All-City, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Chinatown, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Drugs, Flicks, Industrial, Jazz, labor, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, politics, Religion, Rockaways, Sex, Southern Thing, Sports, Transportation on Feb 16th, 2009
Californian Kim Cooper is many things to many people: writer, editor, Scram magazine tyro, historian, catalyst and the conjunction of so many hep underground cultural currents, I can’t name half of them without wanting to cannonball into the La Brea Tar Pits. Were I able to list them them all, I’d jump into The Wedge […]
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Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Coffee, Coney Island, Dial J For Jewish, Literature, Manhattan, New Utrecht, Our Italian Friends, politics, Religion, Sports, Transportation on Dec 17th, 2008
Everybody say sh’ma! In the midst of city, state and federal affairs of unpleasant tiding, there came this Sunday at least some good news. Suzanne Wasserman, historian and filmmaker, wrote a piece about her father, Edward, for the New York Times, “A Bensonhurst Boyhood, Unlocked At Last”. I might have more to say about family, […]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Boerum Hill, Boro Park, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, Downtown, Drugs, Dumbo, Dyker Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Gravesend, Greenpoint, Highland Park, hip-hop, Kensington, Literature, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, politics, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Subways, Sunset Park, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, Windsor Terrace on Jul 11th, 2008
Drunk on Albemarle. Drunk on Bond Street. Drunk on Cortelyou. Drunk in Ditmas Park. Drunk on Evergreen— Bushwick stand up! Drunk on Force Tube. Drunk in Gravesend. Drunk on Hinsdale. Drunk on India Street. Drunk on Jamaica Ave. Drunk in Kensington (they will get the services their property values demand). Drunk on Avenue L (the […]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Boro Park, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, City Line, Coney Island, Crime, Cypress Hills, Drugs, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatlands, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, graffiti, Highland Park, hip-hop, Homecrest, Kensington, Latino, Literature, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, politics, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Transportation on Jul 2nd, 2008
WWIB Transportation Editor, Swan, explains: Ya’ll can check the record, we went for Barry early— who the hell wouldn’t have? Not the Mighty Sparrow! All three Clintons are venal, John Edwards was a stiff, Dennis Kucinich had a hot wife & no traction: please, let’s not relive the nightmare again so soon; gracias. Today, however, […]
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Posted in Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Boro Park, Bushwick, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Crime, Dial J For Jewish, Dumbo, East New York, Gowanus, graffiti, Greenpoint, Industrial, labor, Latino, Manhattan, Our Italian Friends, politics, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, South Brooklyn, The Dodgers, The Food Writer on Mar 20th, 2008
Diagnosis by BZA: Have ya’ll heard the news? There’s good blogging tonight! Where? It could be many places– the streets of Brooklyn, most of ‘em anyway, are still free– but it probably ain’t. Last August 18, it was Found In Brooklyn who had the rebop. It was a good story, nothing crazy (although there’s not […]
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Posted in All-City, Boro Park, Carroll Gardens, Crime, Dial J For Jewish, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Industrial, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Park Slope, Poetry, politics, Sunset Park, Williamsburg on Feb 21st, 2008
“The moment one learns English, complications set in. Try as one may, one cannot elude this conclusion, one must inevitably come back to it. This applies to all persons, including those born to the language and, at times, even more so to Latins, including Spaniards. It manifests itself in an awareness of implications and intricacies […]
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Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Boro Park, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Crime, Drugs, Flicks, Fort Greene, Gowanus, graffiti, labor, Latino, Literature, Midwood, Music, politics, Red Hook, South Brooklyn, Sports on Feb 12th, 2008
Zincsmith Billiard returns to the Pacific Ave Chamber: Due to personnel issues beyond the control of a mere Sports Desk, approximately none of WWIB’s Ace In The Hole (dir. Billy Wilder, 1951) loving newsmen & women were able to attend the Atantic Yards Camera Club’s protest on Sunday. Many apologies & much respect to those […]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Boro Park, Brighton Beach, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Dial J For Jewish, Downtown, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flicks, Industrial, labor, Latino, Literature, Midwood, Mill Basin, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Our Italian Friends, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, Poetry, Sex, Sports, Sunset Park, West Indian, Williamsburg, Windsor Terrace on Jan 10th, 2008
why is he saying these terrible things about Centipede? an Albanian pizza man? a Boro Park tailor? a Canarsie courier? a Dominican ecstatic? an Ecuadorian mope? the oldest living Finn in Sunset Park? that guy on the G train who’ll argue we should speak of The Georgia as much as The Gambia? he who can’t […]
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