todo tipo de musica since 2007
Posted in Bay Ridge, Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Coney Island, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Park Slope, Sex, Sheepshead Bay, Sports, Sunset Park, Transportation on Aug 10th, 2010
Believe it or not, it was my bike. This one I had bought at Madison Square Garden, at the end of a six-day race. It had been made in Chemnitz, Bohemia and the six-day rider who owned it was a German, I believe. What distinguished it from other racing bikes was that the upper bar [...]
Posted in Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie, Coffee, Crime, Downtown, Drugs, East New York, Flatbush, Fort Greene, Fort Hamilton, Greenpoint, Jazz, Literature, Navy Yard, Park Slope, Red Hook, Sex, South Brooklyn, Williamsburg, politics on Jul 31st, 2010
I don’t think Faulkner is worth the antebellum South, and I would rather not have had Kafka at the proce of twentieth-century European carnage. But in trying to locate contemporary American writing I look at the thirties, that supposedly meager decade if misfired artistic energy and of duped intellectuals and bad proletarian novels, and I [...]
Posted in All-City, Brooklyn Heights, Downtown, Greenpoint, Literature, Manhattan, Subways, Williamsburg on Aug 5th, 2009
He opened his eyes on Space/Time Employment Agency, down on lower Broadway, near Fulton Street. Bad choice, he thought. It meant 15 cents for the subway. But a deal was a deal. On the Lexington Avenue downtown he saw a bum lying across the aisle, diagonal on the seat. Nobody would sit near him. He [...]
Posted in Crime, Greenpoint, Transportation, Uncategorized, Williamsburg on Jul 2nd, 2009
SUSPECTS IN BONFIRE MURDER
Two Poles Arrested by the Greenpoint Avenue Police
Patrolmen Mattes and Biredy of the Greenpoint Avenue station, Willismsburg, arrested two Poles last night as suspicious characters in connection with the murder of the woman whose body was found in the bonfire in Williamsburg on Thursday. The men described themselves as Julian Kusinski and [...]
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, Bed-Stuy, Dial J For Jewish, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Jazz, Manhattan, Music, Transportation, Williamsburg, politics on Apr 25th, 2009
Uptown, Hazel Scott was big excitement for some of the biggest Hollywood stars. Franchot Tone was mad for her, Burgess Meredith, the biggest society playboys in New York. All looking for big excitement, and she was.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. had a crush on her. He liked her so much that he brought his mother, Eleanor [...]
Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Dial J For Jewish, Downtown, Fort Greene, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Queens, Red Hook, South Brooklyn, Subways, Transportation, Williamsburg, politics on Mar 12th, 2009
Up really late or really early Brooklyn time? Well, WWIB’s Publisher Brian Berger can be heard on Austrian state radio, ORF, at 09:45 Vienna time, which is 3:45 am in New Lots and elsewhere. The program, conceived and assembled by former Brooklyn resident Christian Lerch, is about the culture and geography along the route of [...]
Posted in All-City, Bushwick, Greenpoint, Navy Yard, Religion, Sex, Transportation, politics on Mar 7th, 2009
Letter to the Editor, the Brooklyn Times, September 11, 1909
Let me say in this connection a few words in regard to the Old Bushwick Reformed Dutch Church. There have been of late many propositions made to extend Bushwick Avenue beyond this old church, and the edifice has been a stumbling block in the way of [...]
Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Coney Island, Crime, Crown Heights, Fort Greene, Greenpoint, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Poetry, Prospect Heights, Queens, Sex, Sports, The Dodgers, Transportation, West Indian, Williamsburg, hip-hop, politics on Feb 13th, 2009
If someone says to me “You wanna work a good room?” Yes, there are good rooms: the editorial room at DallasPenn.com, Combat Jack’s Today’s Mathematics, Kevin Walsh’s Forgotten New York, Justine Carroll’s Greenpointers (blowing minds at Oasis Roller World in Ridgewood)— those are good rooms, but certainly not the Copa over this, or this, or [...]
Posted in All-City, Boerum Hill, Crime, Dial J For Jewish, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Irish, Manhattan, Midwood, Music, Prospect Heights, Queens, Religion, Sex, South Brooklyn, labor, politics on Jan 12th, 2009
New York is the biggest goddamn hick town of all. That anyone at any level could entertain the idiocy of a Kennedy Senate appointment— especially when there are… how many other un- or underemployed women in this state who could use a (better) job? I don’t have an exact number but just hitting the streets [...]
New York Calling
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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