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 All-City, Bed-Stuy, Canarsie, Clinton Hill, Crime, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Flatlands, Irish, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, New Lots, Our Italian Friends, Sex, Subways, Weeksville, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Feb 2nd, 2010
Three things about Empire Boulevard (there are more)*: First, what’s beef? In 1989, graffiti writer JA wilding on SONI’s house as recounted in Jim Dwyer’s excellent book Subway Lives (1991): JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA JA. And so on. This really happened and it didn’t end [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Brownsville, Canarsie, Flatlands, New Lots, Queens, Subways, Sunset Park, Transportation, hip-hop on Sep 11th, 2009
OR, A MAN NEEDS HIS HAT
for Susan Tyrell & Curtis Cokes
They say it dates back to Lene Lenape times, before there was a Brooklyn and before Kings County too. No Fort Hamilton, no Floyd Bennett, no two-fare zones, no factories; there was a St. Finbar (Feastday September 25) but he didn’t have a school, [...]
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Posted in All-City, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, Flatbush, Flatlands, Manhattan Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Music, New Lots, Queens, Rockaways, Transportation on Jul 11th, 2009
So there’s this former Naval Air Station, in Brooklyn, called Floyd Bennett Field. Brian Berger’s relationship with the Floyd goes back nearly to the dawn of time, at least the early 1960s when his father, a native of Rockaway Beach, was stationed there as a member of the United States Navy Reserve. Young John [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Coney Island, East New York, Flatlands, Navy Yard, New Lots, Queens, Sheepshead Bay, Sports, Transportation, Vinegar Hill on Jul 4th, 2009
HELLO! THERE, SEA SERPENT!
A Brooklyn Man Says He Is Confident
He Met One While Fishing
Mr. M.A. Russell, of 188 Bridge street, says that he and two companions, while fishing on Sunday, about 7 A.M., off Long Beach, saw a sea serpent. There were on the boat at the time a dozen bottles of lager, some ham [...]
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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 Canarsie, City Line, Crime, East New York, Flatlands, Manhattan, New Lots, Rockaways, Sex, Transportation, West Indian, politics on Mar 25th, 2009
Many old time politicians in Brooklyn, as well as others who by no possibility could be catalogued as such will sorrow to hear that King’s Hotel, a famous old hostelry at Canarsie Landing, is being torn down. Its place is to be taken by a more modern form of [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Park Slope, Queens, Religion, Sex, Sports, Subways, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, graffiti, labor, politics on Feb 23rd, 2009
As we settle into the realities of President Obama— the hopes sustained (a partially decent housing plan) and disappointments alike (the appointment of the venal Aldolfo Carrión Jr. as Urban Affairs Director)— it’s a good time to remember the nation of Guyana and their seemingly endless civil travails. Haven’t thought about Guyana since your last [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Bronx, Brownsville, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Flicks, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Marine Park, Music, Southern Thing, Sports, Subways, The Dodgers, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Sep 23rd, 2008
OR, EAST NEW YORK TEST MATCH
by Caz Dolowicz. Let’s keep this light, or at least not swerve unto our real feeling about Yankee Stadium (fuck it), George or Hank Steinbrenner (fuck them) or Rudy Giuliani, Mike Bloomberg and most of the City Council— fuck all ya’ll, hard, & without satisfying release for giving away public [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Canarsie, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gowanus, South Brooklyn, Sports, West Indian, graffiti, politics on Sep 12th, 2008
OR, A MAN NEEDS HIS HAT
for Susan Tyrell & Curtis Cokes
Caz Dolowicz has been there, man. They say it dates back to Lene Lenape times before there was a Brooklyn & before Kings County too. No Fort Hamilton, no Floyd Bennett, no two-fare zones, no factories; there was a St. Finbar (Feastday September [...]
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