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Blow the Shofar!
Just over week before the High Holidays, and a local rabbi is making a pitch for you to celebrate with him at the Maple Street School. The disappointed hard-of-hearing chauffeur might not partake, but...
View ArticleSound Familiar?
Last week the Q wrote about the aptly named SHAMCO, owner of many of the large apartment buildings in the neighborhood. A number of you reached out to me with horror stories. To give you a better sense...
View ArticleA Bit of Perspective
Finally, some reasonable description of what's happening in the neighborhood over zoning. Zoning. Just the zoning part. The zoning. From Crain's reporter Andrew J. Hawkins:On the day after Labor Day...
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Let's Put a Lie To That One Right Now
If someone tells you that Empire Boulevard, or Lefferts Gardens, is the densest part of Brooklyn, does your BS alarm go off? Mine too. It's plain to me that if you want dense, you'd be hard pressed to...
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Who Knew? Did You?
How is it that the Q, of all people, is last to know that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is opening a new restaurant? Yellow Magnolia. A proper sit-down-and-talk-about-nothing-of-consequence restaurant! I...
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Not In My Black Yard
The Q counted 140 people at one pointThe Q's hat's off to MTOPP's Alicia Boyd for really knowing how to rile up a crowd. She was on fire tonight at a community forum on capital D Displacement. She...
View ArticleBluebird Cafe - Open Tonight
So says a commenter. Seems worthy of a post however. "Bluebird cooking from 5 tonight...take these wilted greens and make them fly. All my life. I was only waiting for a cafe on the 'Bush"
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Great New Restaurant Opens On OUR Franklin Avenue
All this talk about Empire Blvd lately has me once again lamenting how that pesky six-lane junk heap of a rue manages to keep Leffertsonians from considering Southern Crown Heights as part of their...
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O No! SoCro Goes So NoCro on Fra So of EPW.
Translation: The rebirth of Franklin Avenue north of Eastern Parkway West (EPW - nice, right?) has meant sky-high rents in both residential and commercial spaces. So, naturally, the trend moves south...
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Ebbets Field Flannels
In Seattle. Pic: Kendall C.Vintage baseball jerseys, or pajamas for 1720 Bedford Avenue?
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Why You Must Come To the CB9 Meeting This Tuesday
The Deets. To sign up to speak for up to three minutes, you must call or email the district office by noon on Tuesday. Date: September 23rd, 2014Time: 7:00pmVenue: Medgar Evers College, Edison O...
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Maple Street Garden Fights For Its Life
Cops from the 71st Came To Slow Things Down: pic Ali JacobsMan, oh man, oh man. You've got to be on your toes these days. Even if your toes are deep in flower beds.The stealthy crew behind the...
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Wow. That Was Weird.
So here's what I learned tonight.If you show up at a meeting with enough people armed with misinformation, then you start yelling and tossing insults at speakers, and keep it up for an hour and half,...
View ArticleCorrect That. The Motion Didn't Pass
Just like Truman vs Dewey, a lot of folks are going to wake up tomorrow to find that their hard fought victory was an illusion. The Community Board's have a clever rule that's designed to keep members...
View ArticleAlicia Boyd: Proud Townhome Owner, Anti-Gentrification Activist
Alicia Boyd and I agree on a lot of things. I've got problems with massive, indiscriminate, City-sponsored people-hemorrhaging gentrification. I don't like the class and race implications either. I...
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If You Want To Know How Things Got Outa Hand...
Alls you gotta do is look at the gameplan. Below is what was handed out to the MTOPP folks before the meeting.I gotta say I'm impressed. The Republican Party could use these tactics to nudge their...
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Bluebird Does the Trick
On another note, Bluebird Cafe quietly opened last week at 504 Flatbush, cross from the beloved Phat Albert Gym, where Albert works off the pounds while watching reruns of the Cosby show. By the time I...
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71st Looking For Suspect
From Vinnie at the 71st Precinct:Last night at approximately 9PM one male in his 20's was shot one time in his left knee. He was removed to KCH for treatment. The 71st Precinct believes the motive to...
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