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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Brownsville, Canarsie, Carroll Gardens, Crime, Dyker Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Gowanus, Literature, Marine Park, Our Italian Friends, Red Hook, Religion, Rockaways, Sex, Sports, Sunset Park, Transportation, labor, politics on Dec 8th, 2008
by the Pride of P.S. 207, Lizard: I can hear the jabbering from Gowanus already: “4011 Fillmore, is that even in Brooklyn?” No, schmuck, it’s a chapter from the real good book, ya’ll remember the passage, Fillmore 40:11: “And Louie said, fuck Christmas.” It didn’t matter that Louie sold the goddamn trees nearby at the [...]
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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, Bay Ridge, Bronx, Carroll Gardens, Dyker Heights, Gowanus, Literature, Manhattan, Paerdegat Basin, Park Slope, Poetry, Queens, Red Hook, Sunset Park, Transportation, graffiti on Dec 18th, 2007
who’s still got ‘em? BZA for one: Which is not to diminish the style or persistence of the writer known only as OJAE, sometimes shortened to OJ & frequently celebrated on the streets as the Juice. What kind of juice? Whatever this anonymous market in South Brooklyn is selling! I cropped it tight for [...]
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Posted in All-City, Bay Ridge, Canarsie, Dyker Heights, Gowanus, Irish, Literature, Manhattan, New Lots, Poetry, Queens, Sex, South Brooklyn, Subways, The Food Writer, Transportation, West Indian, Windsor Terrace, hip-hop on Dec 14th, 2007
Beadel Debevoise can dig it. Meredith Brosnan didn’t grew up on Avenue L & if Dublin has its own Rockaway Parkway, James Joyce never wrote about it, not even in Finnegans Wake. Which leaves Brooklyn literature where? Drunk, again, longing for the apostrophe in Flann O’Brien at Denis J. Ferris Bar on Fort Hamilton [...]
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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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Posted in Bath Beach, Dyker Heights, Gowanus, Homecrest, Latino, Queens, Rockaways, Sex, Subways, hip-hop on Nov 21st, 2007
Drunk in Arverne. Drunk in Bayside. Drunk in Corona. Drunk on Ditmas Ave. Drunk in Elmhurst. Drunk as fuck in Forest Hills. Goddamn did we get drunk in Glendale. Drunk in Hollis. Drunk again with the Indians in Jackson Heights. Drunk at the Kew Motor Inn. I’ve been getting drunk a lot in Lindenwood lately. [...]
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Posted in Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Latino, Manhattan, Midwood, Our Italian Friends, Sports, Staten Island, The Food Writer, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop on Nov 3rd, 2007
ITEM: First, greetings & welcome to all NY1 viewers. Marshall Berman & Brian Berger recently made a brief appearance on Sam Roberts’ New York Times Close Up program & this is indeed the all-city blog Sam mentioned. It might a little confusing if ya’ll have never been here before but, for starters, check out the [...]
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