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Must To Do: Crime Forum on Monday
So, you might ask, why should I attend some crime thing up on Classon? Well, to put it mildly, I think we're at a serious juncture in the world of police/community relations, and with the uptick in...
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Solid Sushi Comin' To the 'Bush
See that word "Deli" to the left of popular swillery Midwood Flats? That's about to become an outpost of popular sushi joint Silver Rice, a place that earned raves up above Eastern Parkway. So what do...
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The Q's White Whale May Finally Be Harpooned
Artist David Eppley has begun. Folks, YOU made this happen. We made it happen. It's starting. I happen to be in Miami this weekend. I just this afternoon walked around the many murals of the Wynwood...
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OUR Botanic Garden Entrance Opens Again But Food Now Sucks
How could you not love the news that the Empire Blvd entrance to the Botanic Garden is open again, starting tomorrow? And the new "Discovery Garden" is open as well.But the Q has a bone to pick. What's...
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It's Nationwide
WynwoodLest we forget that the travails of our community are born of deeper social and economic issues, the Q finds himself in Miami, doing a tour of duty for work that includes shepherding musicians...
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Nasty Wreck At Maple & Rogers
If you know more, please share. This picture came from a neighbor:
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MySpace Entrance To Market Will Be Big Deal
To those of us who follow these kinds of things, the investment of real estate brokers MySpace is a big effing deal in the development of the neighborhood. From their press release for their Grand...
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New Mathieu Eugene Piece Beggars Belief
Apparently staffers for The Onion are now working for our Councilman. Perhaps most hilarious of all is the fact that I was reappointed to the Community Board by...you guessed it, Mathieu Eugene. Says...
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The Birdman Stayeth
from flatbushedFantastic piece on Winston of Rogers from Flatbushed. I've been dying to write a post on him for like the past hundred years. Thank you Flatbushed for a loving essay. (This cat can...
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Gunfight at the BP Corral
Surprise at the MTOPP demonstration today against Eric Adams and Community Board 9? A counter protest.photos by Warren B. The Borough President, it would appear, is not taking the constant berating...
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sweats
Lenox at Bedford, and Lenox tween Rogers and Bedford. Bird cages. With birds. What gives?Birds Cooking In the Sun? Or Just Enjoying A Day Out On the Town?I don't know nothin' about birds, but beyond...
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Bedford Avenue Gonna Start To Feel Very Different
The march of progress? The marring of a neighborhood? Either way, Bedford is about to experience a serious makeover. This is but one new project, born of the death of two wood-frame houses. 1930...
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New Jail Coming To Bedford Down Caton Way
thx RoxVI mean why not lie a bit in your rendering and make it look like something other than a holding cells? Actually, you ever notice that the world coop and the word coop are the same? As in 2...
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Vendors Wanted For 1st Annual Parkside Empire Street Fair
For years, the Flatbush Avenue street fair was a dismal affair. Poorly run, it often came down to a lot of noise but no fun. With a new grassroots merchants association ascendant, things might be much...
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They're Gaining On Ya Empire
From, what else, The Real Deal, comes info on a building planned for 109 Montgomery, just north of MTOPP world headquarters. 12 stories. Does that count, in the vernacular, as a "Sky-Riser?" And what's...
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Shooting Last Night - Flatbush Near Woodrufff - 1 Dead - 4am-ish
Any info? Please send me a note and I'll forward anonymously. Cops tell me one is dead, scene is on Flatbush between Parkside and Woodruff. But it would appear that one got hit but survived and took...
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Follow-Up Meeting on Crime: June 24
The Q was worried that this follow-up meeting on crime in the neighborhood would get lost after a couple weeks of quiet. Surprise! Another shooting/murder, this time on Flatbush between Parkside and...
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Four shot outside "restaurant." Oy gevalt. What does anyone know about this one? Near Winthrop, I'm told. No one dead, so we hear.UPDATE: Definitely not related to the bad guy shooting two early...
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Think An Uptick In Shootings Is About Stop & Frisk? Think Again
This Chart Begs A Ton Of QuestionsWow. What a great article. Thx for sending, PG! The first question...if the police were making nearly 700,000 stops in 2011, and just 45,000 last year...what are they...
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Extraordinary Food on Rogers
Dang. Me and Rudy just came back from a truly mind-blowing dinner at The Food Sermon. It's at 355 Rogers, one block above Empire. I know, I know, Caribbean food in Crofferts, big whoop. But Rawlston...
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