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 All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Bronx, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crown Heights, Downtown, East New York, Flatbush, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Our Italian Friends, Queens, Rockaways, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Sports, Subways, Transportation, graffiti on Aug 4th, 2008
by Zincsmith Billiard: They came to West 5th Street from the Bronx & Rockaway, Yonkers & many parts of Brooklyn too. There was, to this reporter’s eyes, not a single real estate blogger amongst them— none from Gowanus, none from Gravesend, none from Gerritsen Beach; none from Bay Ridge, none from Bayside, Queens & certainly [...]
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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, Kensington, Literature, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, South Brooklyn, Subways, Sunset Park, Transportation, Weeksville, West Indian, Windsor Terrace, hip-hop, politics 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 All-City, Coney Island, Flatlands, Flicks, Gerritsen Beach, Gowanus, Gravesend, Literature, Manhattan, Marine Park, Midwood, Mill Basin, Sex, graffiti on Jul 9th, 2008
Dear Sirs (BZA, Beadel, Angry M.F. & Lorraine Otsego too),
As a lifelong Brooklynite, I thought I’d “seen it all.” Did a lot of it too, in my younger days. Taxi-dancing, the numbers, after-hours joints— you-name-it, really. I dropped acid when it was legal and in 1970 I saw the Grateful Dead four nights running in [...]
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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, Highland Park, Homecrest, Kensington, Latino, Literature, New Lots, New Utrecht, Paerdegat Basin, Red Hook, Religion, Seagate, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop, politics 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, Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Crime, Dyker Heights, Flatbush, Flatlands, Gerritsen Beach, Latino, Marine Park, Music, Our Italian Friends, Religion, West Indian on Dec 9th, 2007
since P.S. 207, Lizard: Not that I expect anyone else to know that. I can hear it now: 4011 Fillmore, is that even in Brooklyn? No, schmuck, it’s a chapter from the real Brooklyn bible, ya’ll remember the passage, Fillmore 40:11: “And Louie said, fuck Christmas.” It didn’t matter that Louie sold the goddamn trees [...]
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On the scene in Go Go Gerritsen Beach, Swan: Gerritsen. It might seem like the edge of the world to some but for many Brooklynites, the name ululates in labial dental fricative glory like so much roast beef spittle from nearby Brennan & Carr. What happens after? All sorts of stuff & this weekend [...]
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