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Trick or Treat (Mostly Treat)
If you have kids and want a fun, safe, easy Halloween trick or treating experience, this can't be beat. A small geographical area is key. You'll have enough candy to cause a trip to the Extractor...
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Count Your Blessings! She's Back In Biz
After a long-seeming short hiatus, Lilli and company at BLESSINGS are back in business at 663 Flatbush tween Winthrop and Hawthorne! 8am - 4pm daily, and brunch on weekends 9:30 - 3:30. Congrats....
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Community Board Moves To Oust District Manager Pearl Miles
Well now. Was it housecleaning? Revenge? A bit of both?On a Friday night (yes, shabbat no less) word comes from the CB9 Executive Committee that it has moved to remove the longest serving District...
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DW Gibson Piece In Nation On Community Gardens
Including local heroes fighting for the Maple Street Garden:Le Nation
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Dog!!!
Look familiar? Help Get Him Home! According to the below he has no microchip...so he's definitely not a robot dog.A lost dog was found on Lincoln Road 2 nights ago. Very sweet, about 1.5-2 years old,...
View ArticleCome Show Your Support For Maple Street Garden
From Tom La Farge of the Maple Street Garden, comes some pretty good news on the Elected Officials front. Don't know if it'll work, but we'd basically be gaining a garden/park for realsies.Come by for...
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Do You Falafel? Well Then You Won't Feel Awful Today!
photo Sue CookeWow. Didn't see that coming. Kulushkat coming to Washington between Lincoln Road and Lefferts Ave. Gourmet Falafel. Great Reviews. The Q has eaten at their Dean Street location and...
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Lotsa Sauces
'Member that carpet store just south of Clarkson on Flatbush? Near Mango Seed? Seems the Mango Seed clan is opening a boutique pizza place there called Zurilee Pizza Bar. 755 Flatbush y'all.Speaking of...
View ArticleSchtoop Sale
 Looks like a kickin' stoop sale is happening tomorrow.Multi family stoop saleSaturday oct 2410am - 3pm255 Lincoln RoadWhat a terrific opportunity to once again share the hilarious rapper MC...
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The More Things Change...
Just a couple doors down from ParksideZ you can soon quaff a cordial at Park Side, the new bar/restaurant going up where hair salon Grace Monica used to was, tween Parkside and Winthrop on the...
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The Haunted Crosswalk?
Shot this pic on Flatbush at Clarkson, as if it had been placed specifically for me to go insane puzzling. So many possibilities...
View ArticleKalushkat Opens This Weekend
DNA INFO on "Gourmet" Falafel just off the FlabenueSure the Q posted on this before. But this is place is GOOD y'all. On Washington at 1137, near Lincoln Road.
View ArticleCB9 Mtg Goes Extra Innings - District Manager Removed
Update: Word reaches the Q that Pearl Miles will be filing a lawsuit against the Community Board, claiming the firing was age discriminatory, political and without merit.In a removal motion that was...
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Big Residential Building To Replace Caton Market
Rachel from DNAInfo has the story on the big new building for the corner of Flatbush/Caton. Given all the talk about development in the neighborhood, this should be of great interest to a lot of...
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Palate Cleanser - Babe the blue OX and the Rockaways - Monday Night Nov 2
And the saga continues. Alicia Boyd just sent me a FOIL request, asking me a question she should have just, you know, asked. She wanted to know who was on my Transportation Committee and who appointed...
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"Park Side" Opens Tomorrow
Do you like Franny's, the incredibly popular pizza parlor up Flatbush way? Well, you may soon be rolling in dough. Cuz Park Side, the new joint opening on Flatbush tween Parkside and Winthrop, will be...
View ArticleIt's Official - Greenlight Bookstore Moving Into 626 Flatbush
For all its unlikable height, 626 Flatbush is sure pouring on the charm. With its chunk of affordable (under-a-grand) apartments (for qualified lottery winners, natch), the Maple Street School, and now...
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Straight Outa Compost
Never did like that band, Smashing Pumpkins. I don't think they wrote a single decent song and that voice...that screeching, nasal, whine...what was up with that? At least the "yarl" of Eddie Veder and...
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Hello Empire. Nice To Meet You.
In further proof that development chugs along quite nicely without community input, the Clean Rite at the corner of Bedford and Rogers will soon go the way of the Caledonian Hospital - as of right....
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