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Bumper Stickers For a Dimmer Future
Is that poo wearing glasses?Courtesy of Paul G, get your bumper stickers here.
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Taking the Bulb By the Horns
Sunday was spectacular along the X/Y axes, X being Parkside and Y being Ocean. Two of the neighborhood's biggest stars of beautification - Rudy Delson and Amy Musick - led throngs of sweaty masses...
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MTOPP Shifts To the Real Battle
While poor Pearl Miles continues to bear the brunt of Alicia Boyd's malice, MTOPP is turning some of its legal energy to the real bear...scandalously unscrupulous landlords. Let's hope this is the...
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Time To Give To Parkside Plaza
From Rudy and In and Duane and Sonya and Blaise and...actually the list is much too long to write in the 2 minutes I have between bedtimes, but here's a note from Rudy, asking for a little gift in the...
View ArticleHas MTOPP Decided To Play Ball?
As I was reading the recent Brownstoner post on MTOPP, I couldn't help digging up a personal email Alicia Boyd - the founder, leader and "heart" and soul of the movement - sent to me back in August. In...
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On My Soap Box - About Soap
It's easy to SAY Shop Local. We all get it...support local businesses. But I recently got an email from a local entrepreneur that made me realize just how much creative energy people put into their...
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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...
View ArticleEric Garner R.I.P.
The Q has a lot of pent-up things to say about the manner in which the State is apparently well within its rights to take human life - the ultimate authority to kill someone who has not been convicted...
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274-280 Hawthorne
So. This. Is. Nuts.Those Feddersy buildings that went up on Hawthorne, near Nostrand, for more than $1.5 million? The Q wrote about them less than a month ago.They're all in contract. That's right....
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Councilman or Monster.com?
Maybe the Q is just being pissy...but I've been getting these big deal press releases from our Councilman about single jobs available at the renovated Kings Loews down on Flatbush. I get that he wants...
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Toy Drive at MangoSeed
When MangoSeed opened a few years ago, the ma & pa Q checked it out for brunch. Little could we have known that the humble sit-down eatery would become such a mainstay of Flabenue dine 'n'...
View ArticlePlease Support the Flatbush Tenant Coalition
As the Q has oft said, the real work of keeping Brooklyn affordable is being played out in the trenches - one building at a time - organizing tenants to know their rights and use the system to fight...
View ArticleRevised Resolution
Since the Chair of CB9 is unwilling to call a committee meeting to discuss the (now) rescinded resolution to City Planning, I took another look at it and realized that with a few tweaks it should be...
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Why It Matters
Mike over at Brooklynian sent me the following advert, showing how you can buy up two modest houses and turn them into a slender Rapunzel building. And it's why we need to move quickly to help stem the...
View ArticleYou Win Some...
Chairman Dwayne Nicholson put on his fighting gloves tonight! There he was screaming at us all to behave...or else! Then out of nowhere, once again, it's Fred Baptiste, stage left, bounding to the...
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C'mon Y'all! Show A Little Love For Kwenci!
It's really not a lot of dough. Barely more than $2,000, and Kwenci Jones can complete and protect the beautiful jungle mural at the Q/B/S Prospect Park station on Flatbush.Kwenci came before the...
View ArticleShop Local This Weekend
Before you fall into a shame spiral on the eve of Dec. 24 while shopping at the Barnes & Noble in whatever town you're in for Christmas because you were too lazy to walk a couple blocks from your...
View ArticleShop Local Part Deux: The Discounts
Not only can you shop local, you can get deep discounts and assorted goodies. Hot chocolate? Tea? 50% off fabric? 20% off lingerie?Come to think of it, if you take 20% off lingerie, you're pretty much...
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Interactive Theater Event - Sunday at The Inkwell
Even after reading the poster, you may wonder as did the Q, what IS this exactly? So I went to one of the creators Rebecca Martinez, and she had this to say:What this event is, is a different type of...
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Up, Up and Away
The buying and selling rampage continues. This time, an old wood-frame house, in pretty good condition, will make a nice tall something-or-other. A finger building. Middle finger, that is.Take a look...
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