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Classic Eugene
Before heading to bed, the Q flipped over to the Ditmas Park Corner Blog and read the notes from the Community Board 14 meeting as presented by the Corner's Anna Gustafson. The following paragraph is...
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Give Money to Help Sue the Q!
Man, it gets weird sometimes. If you want to give to Alicia Boyd and MTOPP's legal fees to sue ME and her own Community Board, well, look no further. You can make a donation or go to the fundraiser...
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Beating Back a New Neighborhood Name
What, they thought we wouldn't notice?Curbed points out today that there's been a rethink over whether the neighborhood should be renamed. I've heard through the years that certain neighborhood names...
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Petition To Allow Us To Use OUR Parade Ground
Sometimes the reaction is overkill, and that seems to be the case with a strictly enforced rule to stay out of the Parade Ground after dark. Good folks that I know have been ticketed for walking their...
View ArticleMay Many Ble$$ing$ Come Your Way
The Q routinely deletes the robo-comments that come through some sort of trolling software. The most consistent, and entertaining, are the comments made on a post I did on neighborhood coffee shop...
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Lefferts Food Coop - Grand Opening This Weekend
Tired of poking fun at the Park Slope Food Coop? Now there's a new target for your righteous indignation! Congrats to the whole team for bringing a slight bit of culinary communism to the better side...
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Don't Forget the Daffodils
It's like my old Grandpappy FlatBed used to say: "You don't get the flowers if you don't put in the hours." See you Sunday!
View ArticleThat's Our Gal!
I would've liked to go the Brooklyn Public Library "conversation" about gentrification, if only to hear what Alicia Boyd sounds like when she's a panelist (BPL, whose idea was THAT? Did you want to be...
View ArticleYes, We Still Build Regular Old Affordable Housing
But it should be a hell of a lot more.Today from Rachel, our gem of a resource on all things Crown Heights/Lefferts (they really are twin cities, like Minneapolis/St. Paul or Buda/Pest - CH/L being...
View ArticleShooting On Dollar Van and Assorted Crime News
Some folks alerted me to a shooting at Flatbush and Lincoln yesterday afternoon. I just happened to be a few feet from Inspector Fitzgiboon of the 71st when I got word on my reasonably-smart phone. I...
View ArticleSpeculation, Much?
So how did we go from armed robbers going after Ditmas Park businesses and residents to targeting gentrifiers?According to a Gothamist piece, folks are speculating that the spate of armed robberies -...
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It's a Tugboat Kinda Night - This Friday
From your friends at comesPlease join us for the opening reception for a show of paintings by REPRE: A LONDON ART COLLECTIVE (that includes PLG Painter Noel Hefele) the newest show for PLG Arts Tugboat...
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Holy Smokes...Really?
The Q, it's been said, is obsessed with race and how it plays out in our neighborhood. Just so you don't think I'm too localized in my fascination and indignation, every once in awhile I like to zoom...
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Cock-a-doodle-doo, Caledonia
photo: Elizabeth C.It's made of glass, apparently. Quite striking, don't you think? Corner of Woodruff and St. Pauls at the entrance to 123 on the Park.
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Rather than ask myself questions, which of course I do all the time, here's an interview of the Q by the indefatigable Norman Oder. I tried to get them to take my picture with my shirt off...to show...
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Live Blogging Ebola in Brooklyn
UPDATE AT 7:20 PM: Thanks be to Allah! No Ebola in Brooklyn (is that a Beastie Boys song?)...yet. The Bed-Stuy man who was thought to possibly have the Ebola came up negative. I like Laurie. I don't...
View ArticleFinally...the Smoking Gun!
What you're about to read may shock you. A prophylactic Klonopin may be in order. It would appear, on close inspection, that the ill-fated motion to rescind CB9's Zoning Study Resolution has...PASSED...
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A Little Bit About a Lot of Things
It takes a lot not to notice the changes big and subtle on the Flabenue these days. For years the vibe was generally the same day to day to week to month. And certain things still are dependably as...
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