I see a number of interesting things during my peregrinations around north Brooklyn. These discoveries in large part constitute the content of this site. So you can imagine my interest when I stumbled upon the above pink, gold and lavender bus yesterday afternoon on Driggs Avenue. The first question that came to my [...]
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As today’s decidedly NON-Brooklyn content indicates, yours truly knocked around the East Village yesterday. I was experiencing the worst kind of wanderlust imaginable and finally succumbed. I’m glad I did: I had a very enjoyable afternoon. The Mister (who met me later) had a good time as well. Given that yesterday was his [...] Yesterday afternoon I received a text message from none other than Queens Crap. It went as follows: Great graffiti msgs on wall of bqe by crappy park To wit I, the New York Shittite I am, inquired: Which crappy park? Let’s face facts: those of us who our “Parks Advocates” profess to serve in [...] If Betty White is reading this. You might be interested to know someone on Harrison Place likes you. A LOT. Miss [...] There is genius and then there is GENIUS. This creation (which hails from Spanish Harlem where I went on a photo walk with the immensely talented Steven R. Hazlett today) falls into the latter category. The elegance of this arrangement is truly stunning: cantilevered seating courtesy of NYPD barricades. Initially these chaps [...] My buddy Larry has a theory about what happens in New York City when the temperature reaches 90 degrees or more for an extended period of time. It goes more or less as follows: On the third day people will go absolutely nuts. Expect to see fighting. The fourth day will be pretty much [...] It is not as if I didn’t see it coming. I did. Yesterday when I went to grab a beverage from a local bodega I spied a man twitching and talking to himself. He helped himself to a fistful of ice cooling a bin of fresh fruit. This was summarily tossed in his mouth [...] This, um, creation has nothing really to do with north Brooklyn— or New York City for that matter. Although I suppose it could be argued that I acquired it in Greenpoint (and for the record, I did). Butt— oops I meant but— that is to miss what makes this so special. All I’m [...] From Monitor Street. Miss Heather Taken April 7, 2010. Miss Heather |
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