Posted in Coffee, Coney Island, Dial J For Jewish, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, Flatbush, Flicks, Literature, Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Transportation, politics on Jan 10th, 2009
“In my life had… what? Maybe three big shocks. Shock number one was when I head Cary Grant was Jewish. Shock number two was finding out how how Jell-O, pure, pathetic parveh Jell-O, sweet ecumenical Jell-O what you could eat with milk or meat— Jell-O was not kosher. But you know what was? Drake’s Devil [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bensonhurst, Bronx, Brownsville, Cobble Hill, Crime, Crown Heights, Dial J For Jewish, Ditmas Park, Downtown, Drugs, Flicks, Industrial, Irish, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Our Italian Friends, Queens, Religion, Rockaways, Sex, South Brooklyn, Sports, Staten Island, Subways, Transportation, West Indian, Wild Kingdom, graffiti, hip-hop, labor, politics on Oct 8th, 2008
by Ernie Koy, Jr. It’s a question that will face nearly every reporter if they hang around this dirty racket long enough: how do you write about a Legend? Especially when you go back like we do— way back, to the basketball & handball courts, the pizza parlors & lechoneras, the ominous stairwells & bachata [...]
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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 Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Boerum Hill, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, Cypress Hills, Ditmas Park, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Flatlands, Fort Greene, Marine Park, New Lots, Ocean Hill, Prospect Heights, South Brooklyn, Weeksville, West Indian, politics on Aug 27th, 2008
streets are watching. The Publisher peeks too. The signs— & the flags— are all around us. They come from Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent & the Bahamas. In Haiti & Brooklyn too they speak Creole or French. On Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights where Panama still runs the game, it might be [...]
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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, Bronx, Canarsie, Coffee, Ditmas Park, Flicks, Gowanus, Greenpoint, Latino, Queens, Rockaways, Sex, South Brooklyn, Subways, The Food Writer, Transportation, Williamsburg, graffiti, labor, politics on May 23rd, 2008
Junius Van Sinderen offers his backspin: After a round of tense last-minute negotiations with the management at Demause.net News Service over 1) demolition costs; 2) naming rights 3) tax abatements & 4) what sources called a “generous” contribution to the Stop The Ditmas Canker slush— I mean “community outreach”— fund, WWIB is delighted to link [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Coney Island, Ditmas Park, Jazz, Literature, Manhattan, Music, South Brooklyn, Subways, The Food Writer, Transportation, graffiti on Apr 25th, 2008
The Music Director reviews: One of WWIB’s favorite jazz books is Sidney Bechet’s Treat It Gentle. For those of ya’ll who don’t know, Bechet is one of the towering individualists of the first half of 20th century American music– hear at least his recordings with Louis Armstrong, of Corona via Chicago & New Orleans yesterday. [...]
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Posted in All-City, Carroll Gardens, Coney Island, Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Gowanus, Kensington, Latino, Literature, Music, Queens, Seagate, Sex, South Brooklyn, Sunset Park, labor on Oct 14th, 2007
Dear Sir: Now I guess our little romance has finally simmered down. You should join the circus; you’d make a real good clown. Your eyes look like a roadmap, I’m scared to smell your breath. You’d better shut your peepers before you bleed to death. Don’t roll those bloodshot eyes at me, I can [...]
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Posted in Africa Talks, Brighton Beach, Bronx, Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Flicks, Latino, Marine Park, Music, Religion, Sex, Sunset Park, Transportation, West Indian, graffiti, hip-hop on Oct 11th, 2007
from the Cortelyou branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, Swan: gotta dance? I guess some people do. My grandfather was a clarinetist in the big bands & I know they often played Red Norvo’s “Dance of The Octopus.” In her student days Berenice (The Abbott)/BZA created quite a scandal by performing the “Dance of the [...]
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Posted in Ditmas Park, Flatbush, Kensington, Literature, Midwood, Music, Queens, Rockaways, Sports, Transportation, politics on Oct 9th, 2007
Swan, from the Peninsula Branch of the Queens Public Library: Due to unforeseen, very unpleasant technical issues, the regularly scheduled WWIB update is not online. Listeners are advised to tune to WWIB or a local affiliate for further details. While I am here– & look at that, some old coot next table over is already [...]
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