Am I Rent Stabilized?
Most likely, yes. You may not know your power. You have rights. You have a lease. You are part of the much-maligned but not-to-be-dismissed system of rent regulation in NYC.Find out whether you're at...
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Putting the Pro in Propaganda
All over the neighborhood you'll see the flyers. Within lies a case study in how to deceive and manipulate. Let us count the ways.1. Call yourself a "movement," when in fact you're a handful of people...
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March Madness
pic: Emma WhitfordLast Thursday thousands marched over the bridge to demand real affordability and an end to discrimination and intimidation. Local heroes CHTU got in the act, and the Q is happy to...
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Shakespearean Caledonian Apparitions
Every once in awhile, on the internet, you just have to write a phrase that if googled in quotes will be the only result. I am quite certain that the above blog post title will stand the test of time....
View ArticleCommittee Nearly Unanimous In Wanting Planning Study
They hurled insults. They told lies. They riled the crowd up to a frenzy so intense that some of us questioned our decision not to stand closer to a door for ease of exit. This is what happens when...
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96 Parkside Avenue - The Peristyle
Things to share that the Q did not know. First, the Parthenon across from the Parade Ground is called The Peristyle. Second, it has an address - 96 Parkside Avenue. Third, it is likely part of the...
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ULURP Committee Meeting Minutes
UPDATE: Yes, a quorum was reached. Since Mike Cetera was not reappointed, and four other ULURP members resigned (Diana Richardson, Dwayne Nicholson and Rosemarie Perry, Laura Imperiale) that leaves...
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Special Edition Echo Is Here W/Tribute to Carole
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View ArticleHappy Memorial Day
Just spoke with a neighbor who lives at 60 Clarkson Avenue, you know, THE 60 Clarkson. She has six kids, she's juggling nursing school. The oldest ones are now in middle school and handle themselves...
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Come On Down!
Used to be the dullest show in town. Then we added a new cast of characters and ratings soared! Copy of draft below. The letter passed the ULURP committee with a vote of 10 for, 1 against, 1...
View ArticleOne Year and Two Months Later - The Letter Is Reinstated
Despite yet another last minute effort by CB9 member Fred Baptiste to table the motion, we actually after long, long last got to vote on whether to send the letter to the Department of City Planning...
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Smile! You're Now a Brochure
NYC is, in many respects, the capital of the world. So it should probably not shock us, even WAY out here in Central Brooklyn, to become a focus of investment in a bizarre, even unprecedented, boom in...
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This Saturday - More Beautification!
This stuff just warms the Q's cold, cold heart. Amphibian actually. Some say reptile. But flowers, and song, soothe the savage beast in me. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Pretty flower! Ahhhh. 1pm. Bring the kiddies....
View ArticleGratitude Cafe Celebrates One Year Today - Stop By
Over by the Q train, you're likely to count your Blessings. But over on Rogers at Midwood, you've gotta have seriousGratitude. Each time the Q and family have stopped in at Gratitude we get more...
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Wanted
The Q takes no pleasure in posting Wanted Posters, and generally lets 'em slip by. He makes exceptions in case of sexual predators and missing kids. If you've seen this guy follow the instructions. Ugh.
View ArticleIf You're Gonna Start a Movement, You Gotta Have An Enemy
Some more Monday Morning analysis from the Q, that is one Monday later. The much watched and much linked "police action" at a ULURP meeting from a week and a half ago is below. Remember, last week the...
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Tangled Up In Blue
Images like the above are likely to be a much more common occurrence with the coming of new beat cops. Two recent develops will affect those of us in the northern reaches of Flatbush, which came from...
View ArticleWine Shoppe Coming to Nostrand
A little bird tells the Q that his little olde wine shoppe is opening on Nostrand, not on southern Flabenue as previously reported. That's not to say that the OTHER wine shoppe up by Bluebird Cafe...
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Mathieu Eugene Gets A New Neighbor
Coming to Linden, between Bedford and Rogers:Yimby tells the story. What did Billy Joel say about Glass Houses?
View ArticleCrime Blotter
Local crime-tracking duo Nicole Fabri and Vinnie Martinos once again put on their forensic gloves to create a geographically specific (it's called Sector C, or Charlie, for Lefferts) portion of the...
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