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Posted in Bed-Stuy, Bensonhurst, Crime, Park Slope, Poetry, politics, Prospect Heights on Jan 26th, 2010
Boys, 9 and 10 Years Old, Are Arrested as Burglars Police Accuse Them of Stealing Jewelry Worth $500 From Brooklyn Dwelling Two of the youngest burglary suspects wih whom Broolyn police ever had to deal were arrested yesterday and charged with entering the home of John Bliss, at 935 St. Mark’s Avenue. The first prisoner […]
Posted in Crime, Literature, Manhattan, Music, Navy Yard, politics, Queens, Sex, South Brooklyn, Southern Thing, Wild Kingdom on Jan 19th, 2010
The arrangements on the second— and top— floor at 37-57 82d Street were little, if any, short of ideal. The offices of Dr. Harold Schwartz, a chiropodist, occupied the front of the modest structure a block off Roosevelt Avenue in the heart of Jackson Heights, a prosperous middle-class residential district in New York City’s borough […]
Posted in Africa Talks, All-City, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Jazz, labor, Literature, Manhattan, Music, politics, Southern Thing, Transportation on Jan 11th, 2010
Have you ever been to Hawaii? I mean Hawaii— or Hawai’i— “the big island,” as they say, because Hilo is there, although Magnum lived on Oahu, and the University of Hawaii Press is there too, in Honolulu. I’m not sure where Hawaiian punk/noise band the Fuckin’ Flyin’ A Heads came from; neither of the two […]
Posted in Brownsville, Crime, Flatbush, Latino, Literature, Manhattan, Religion, Sex on Jan 9th, 2010
On February 15, 1956, the social spotlight flashed into General Sessions Court where a habitue of Bank Account Alley appeared before Judge John A. Mullen and pleaded guilty to two counts covering a $170,000 swindle. Originally, playboy Robert H. Schlesinger had been charged with eight counts totaling $330,00 gained by his fraud. Schlesinger is Park […]
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