Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Bed-Stuy, Bronx, Brownsville, Canarsie, City Line, Clinton Hill, Coffee, Coney Island, Crime, Dial J For Jewish, Downtown, East New York, Gowanus, Latino, Literature, Midwood, Music, New Lots, Paerdegat Basin, Poetry, Queens, Rockaways, Sports, Staten Island, Transportation, Vinegar Hill, West Indian, Williamsburg, graffiti, politics on Feb 5th, 2009
Why and what’s the reason for? Caz Dolowicz speculates. An Albanian pizza man in Astoria? A Boro Park bicylist? A Canarsie courier? A Dominican ecstatic? An Ecuadorian mope? The oldest living Finn in Sunset Park? That guy on the G train who argues we should refer to The Georgia as we do the Gambia or [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Greene, Highland Park, Latino, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Paerdegat Basin, Red Hook, Weeksville, West Indian on Sep 1st, 2008
Berenice “The Abbott”/BZA breaks it down. All across the Brooklyn black belt (if you gotta ask… we can talk about it another time) the excitement is so thick in the air you can taste it. Tastes like jerk chicken? Often, yes, but not always. The Haitians have their goat, & once this clown over on [...]
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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 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 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 Africa Talks, All-City, Bronx, Carroll Gardens, Crime, Drugs, Gowanus, Latino, Paerdegat Basin, Queens, Red Hook, Transportation, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on May 17th, 2008
Straight outta Mott Haven, Ernie Koy, Jr. presents: Courtlandt Cartel, Wali World, Amed, G.D. Hehdkrack, A.G., Gang Starr, Diamond, Show, O.C., Fat Joe, Big Pun, Lord Finesse, Buckwild, D.I.T.C. & G.D. Is Big L there behind the parked car? A few of these names are among the G.O.A.T., some immortal, at least one dead, many [...]
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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, 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, labor 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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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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Fresh out of the water at Beach 88th Street… Swan. The truth, baby: while I don’t have anything bad to say about rockin’ Coney or Brighton, Paerdegat Basin or Canarsie, Bergen Beach or Sheepshead Bay, if we’re talkin’ serious salt water action, there’s but one word that truly matters: Rockaway. Shout out to ghost of [...]
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