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Ali's Roti & Hookah Bar Respond To the Neighborhood
The background to the story is that a pretty angry flier went out (see end of this post) that accused the new Hookah Lounge at Ali's Roti Shop of being bullies and jerks, and yes, being too loud too...
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12 Story Tower Coming Just Above The Mason-Dixon
Sigh.Empire Blvd is basically where this caption isI'm not sighing over a proposed 12-story building that's coming to the vacant lot at 109 Montgomery. It's yet another obvious sign of the money to be...
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Local Teen Falls From Rooftop
Another reminder of the fragility of life. A 15 year old boy fell from the above building - 1045 President Street between Rogers and Nostrand - and didn't survive. The news reports said he was jumping...
View ArticleHere We Go Again...
In her latest missive to her diminishing band of acolytes, the hardest working woman in show business, Alicia Boyd, has now decided to attack the likely (read likely) interim Chair of CB9 Laura...
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Wine Store Coming to Flatbush Near Lincoln Road
Not the guy opening the shoppe, nor is this his baby.While it's not over til the Phat Lady croons, plans are afoot for a local resident to open a wine store at the old Blue Roost Cafe B'Fruitee spot,...
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Please Vote In Lead-Up to Tonight's ULURP Committee Meeting
I think Babs had a good point about there being too many petitions flying around these days. However, since the neighborhood group Concerned Citizens has created one of their own, I propose that...
View ArticleTonight's Meeting at CB9
So if you weren't there I don't really blame you. It was kind of like trying to knit with your hands tied behind your back. Which, had Alicia Boyd been knitting, she would have learned how to do,...
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Myspace Realty Coming to Flatbush - Hold On To Your Jetpacks
Remember Myspace? Remember Friendster? AskJeeves? City Search? Urban Fetch? Lycos? Actually all of the above still exist. They adjust, they downsize, they become something specific and tiny. The Q was...
View ArticleYouth Leadership Council - Tell a Neighbor!
Tell everyone you know with teens, or be a mensch or menschette and reach out to some kids you see on the block and tell them about this fantastic opportunity.NYPD does this cool program that creates...
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ULURP Committee Approves Letter to Department of CIty Planning
After a year of turmoil, the (current) ULURP committee has approved a letter, to supersede the rescinded previous letter from March of 2014, and guess what? It's basically the same. It asks for the...
View Article338 Lincoln Road Next
Google view will show you where it is: 338 Lincoln, btw Rogers and Nostrand. Mike F tells us it went for $180K. Wow. And right next to a Fedders. Damn those things are hideous. And I'm not even all...
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Gorgeous Parkside Avenue Gets Its Due
It may not be "in the Manor," but Parkside is where it's at, baby. I never get tired at looking at these beautiful duplex buildings. Montrose Morris gives it its due today in Brownstoner. The full...
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Parents Take Note: Next Saturday's BK Rocks for Maple Street School
A great time, circus style booths, food and music in a new location this year. The Masonic Temple was fun but too boomy...this should be a lot more fun with less chance for acid flashbax. Tickets here.
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ULURP Meeting Minutes
In the interest of greater transparency, I'm including here the minutes from the last ULURP Committee Meeting, 3/16/15. (I'm not going to dignify the petition currently going around asking for my...
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Beautiful Pink Tickets Blooming Throughout Neigborhood
Bam! And then it hits you...If you see a marked Sanitation enforcement vehicle in front of your home or business, don't think they're just texting or snoozing. They're probably writing you a ticket for...
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Shootout at the Not O.K. Corral
Ironically, I had just finished telling an inquisitor who was interested in moving to my block that things were real quiet down my way lately. This was the kind of rival group shooting (you could call...
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Tonight's Community Board Meeting
Agenda items 1 and 2 are issues close to the Q's heart. Number 3 will likely bring more shouting. Hopefully the issue will be laid to rest tonight. Thumbs up, thumbs down, it's fourth down, I'm tired,...
View ArticleCommittee Blows It - Back Again It Goes
Short version: MTOPP called attention to the fact that Ben Edwards had adjourned the meeting, then Demetrius Lawrence said "wait we have to vote" and said it wasn't adjourned, thereby making the vote...
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Neighborhood Association Gets New Leadership
PLGNA's been around since the '60s and has a great legacy of work done in the name of the community. In fact, the Prospect Lefferts Gardens Neighborhood Association is, after all, where PLG got its...
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