New York Shitty Slideshow du Jour: American Graffiti

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: Long Island City, Queens, Street Art, Sunnyside 

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Today I did something I have longed to do for some time: check out a rather extensive mural located the industrial no man’s land between Long Island City and Sunnyside. As I had long suspected, it was a lot more impressive up close. Although I wasn’t too keen on some of the hawkish content I was really happy I made the walk to see it. Follows is a slide show of the highlights. Enjoy!

As I said before: this is best appreciated in person. Go to the intersection of 35 Street and the Midtown Expressway and see it for yourself!

Miss Heather

From The New York Shitty Inbox: 47 Stories of Fun!

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic 

gptthumbJessica writes (in an email entitled “Have you seen this?):

I saw this post today on gothamist, and my jaw just dropped. A megalith tower on freaking India street???? Are the thousand yuppies stupid enough to buy crappy condos for $750,000 all going to crowd onto the G train? A-holes.

To answer Jessica’s question: yes, I have seen this. I was especially amused by this quote from the developer, one Jonathan Bernstein:

We are asking for radical changes to the zoning, but we do think it’s way different than anything that’s been proposed on the waterfront… We think it will be a gateway to Manhattan and Greenpoint.

New York Shitty analysis: it looks like Long Island City ate a business park and took a shit.

Miss Heather

Image Credit: Gothamist

Word Of The Day

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11211, Street Art, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn 

Compassion

From North 4 Street.

Miss Heather

Greenpoint Photos du Jour: Tooling Around The Shit Tits

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic 

Not surprisingly I have yet to get around to casting my ballot on this most auspicious day. There’s no need to worry, dear readers, I will perform my civic duty. Let’s just say I am not terribly enthusiastic about it. In fact, I whiled away a great deal of the afternoon walking around the sewage treatment plant and Blissville. If this is not a testament to how distasteful I find this year’s batch of candidates I do not what is. But I digress. Follows are a few highlights from my walk around the crappiest part of Greenpoint. Enjoy!

gear

Green Street

feral

barrelfever

Huron Street

Faile

McGuinness Boulevard

truck

Java Street

millerbuilding

gptavebridge

Greenpoint Avenue

This concludes the Greenpoint segment of today’s sojourn. Later I will post some highlights from the other side of the bridge: Blissville!

Miss Heather

Williamsburg Photo du Jour: McQueen

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11211, Street Art, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn 

Bullitt

From Wythe Avenue.

Miss Heather

THIS WEEK: Benefit At Bar Matchless

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic 

chessnysThis item comes courtesy of my buddy Jason Diamond of Impose Magazine. He writes:

So you may have heard that things aren’t that great these days in terms of money, and that includes money for school programs. The kids at PS31 in Greenpoint can tell you first hand, as they have had their funding cut for many of their programs, including their outstanding chess team.

A few people in the community have banded together to help make sure this stellar group of K-6th graders stays competitive, so we offer you a night of musical awesomeness in exchange for a little support:

My Teenage Stride
Soft Black
The Sleepies
Dream Diary

You can enjoy the musical stylings of all the previous and much more (a raffle is promised!) at Bar Matchless this Friday, November 6, starting at 8:00 p.m. The cost of admission is a measly five bucks and prizes aside, this is for a good cause. Check it out!

PS 31 Chess Team Fundraiser
November 6, 2009 starting at 8:00 p.m.
Bar Matchless
557 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11222

Miss Heather

East Williamsburg Street Art du Jour: Nice Try

nicetry

NUT

From Flushing Avenue.

Miss Heather

Keep Bushwick Beautiful!

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11206, 11237, Bushwick, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn 

keepbushwickbeautifulNYS

From Flushing Avenue.

Miss Heather

Southside Photo du Jour: Flags

November 3, 2009 ·
Filed under: 11211, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn 

flags

From South 5 Street.

Miss Heather

New York Shitty Day Starter: Rage Against The Machine

Today’s the big day kids.

We, the people, get to choose between a jackass and an elephant plutocrat for mayor.

reyna

The 34th City Council district has an incumbent running against a puppet of her former mentor: the inimitable Vito Lopez.

Behold, the Davilamobile! As witnessed by yours truly yesterday on the Southside.

As the 33rd, well, we have this guy:

levin

Steve Levin. Another Lopez puppet.

Here’s a letter the Mister and I received from Mr. Levin last weekend.

levinletterNYS

When I searched the Gotham Gazette’s voter guide yesterday to learn what alternatives I had to Levin I got this:

gothamgazette

NO SHIT.

But if this is to be believed there will be someone running against Levin. Those of you who wish to vote in protest to Vito’s influence over/strong-arming our community might want to vote for Ms. Tretter.

Yes, this election will be tantamount to getting a colo-rectal exam: it sucks like hell, but you know you should do it.

You can do it

You can do it, New York Shitty!

Miss Heather

P.S.: The lack of effective opposition against Levin (and my own ego and hubris) in this 33rd City Council race makes me feel behooved to run against him (and Vito) next time around.

My preliminary platform/platitudes are as follows:

  • I have lived in Greenpoint/33rd District longer than Levin.
  • You could choose worse.
  • I give a shit.

Unlike career/machine politicians I will not promise anything I cannot deliver.

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