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This Is What Indifference Gets You
Those of you who've walked down Clarkson Ave recently must have noticed how dang much demolition and construction is happening. 195 Clarkson was two wood-frames that are about to become this:195...
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Man Matching Q's Description Busted Buying Viagara
Okay, so maybe only the age was the same. But a dude was arrested quite near my home buying Viagara at a not-so-deep discount of $35 for 3. According to reporter Rachel Holliday-Smith they were both...
View ArticleThe Flabenue Goes Fratbush? More Like Vegas.
What's with all the flashing neon? Even Castillo de Jagua, soon to open where the last Dominican place was, has invested in some spectacular visuals to go with its victuals.Given the recent uptick in...
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Neighbor Takes Some De(Con)struction Pics
Thx to Diane Greene Lent for taking some pictures of the carnage. Nicely collaged to boot!
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Scrapping
Okay, question. Who of you knows what this is? No reading!When I was growing up most people had 'em. That's right, the Disposall. I always wondered why dad pronounced it so funny, but now I get it. The...
View ArticleProsecution...and Defense.
Holy cow. Why would the Q deprive readers of the verbal pyrotechnics in advance of my trial tonight to be removed as Transportation Chair of CB9? One of the reasons I joined the Board in the first...
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Blogger's Band Plays Rare Show - Tomorrow Saturday
Perhaps you've heard the racket coming out of a basement on Lefferts. Babe the blue OX, once a fixture of Lower East Side dens of iniquity, plays a show at the Dad-Rock friendly hour of 3:30 pm sharp...
View ArticleCB9 Chair Removes the Q For...Being the Q
It is with both surprise and relief that the Q is here to tell you just how disappointed and oddly elated he is. I am. I've been removed as Chair of Transportation, after enduring an evening of blatant...
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Et tu, Imani? Imani Henry Is Behind the Racism Charge
The Q had always wondered where all the talk of my racist blog started. I combed old posts for things I might have written that could be misconstrued. I guess I figured my sense of humor was such that...
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Comic Relief - Sat Night @ Bluebird
Whoa, Nelly! Time to step back into the light of love, joy and stand-up comedy. Right in the P.L. of G. Designed to coincide with everyone's least favorite holiday...even those in love stress out about...
View ArticleSound and Fury, Signifying Not A Lot?
Depending on the size of the gash in the tire, the air leaks fast or slow, and last night, the squeak was audible as the fierce rhetoric of the past few months came down to a simple, maybe even...
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Scumbags Harassing Gardeners
Nice guys, these Makhani Brothers. So incensed are they that someone might challenge their allegedly faked deed to the land under the Maple Street Garden that they've taken to harassing the gardeners...
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Oy. The Q Gets Still More Neighbors and A Tall Building
Rebecca Baird-Remba from NY Yimby shows just how much my block will change thx to the unfriendly zoning of R7-1. No more Pentecostal crooning, I guess. The folks who lived in one of these houses were...
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What Could Possibly Be Better Than This? Tonight!
(back from Mexico City and ready to rumble like a Lucha Libre warrior! Just call me El Q-sadilla. )Now that yours truly has been dumped fom the Transportation Committee, I can sit back and enjoy the...
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Last Night's CB9 Meeting
The Q gets it. You have better things to do with your time than have Cabia Doily's spit get spat on your pate. So here's the deal in a nutshell.MTOPP/Empire Study Group presented their hopes for...
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LGCS Closing? A Petition? And an Opening
Sad to hear the Chancellor has plans to close the local Lefferts Gardens Charter School. It opened with such optimism 6 years ago, but staff and board issues made the early days anything but smooth...
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The Substance
Beyond the outrageous rhetoric, MTOPP and the Empire Study Group that it spawned have pretty much controlled the discussion of what should happen to the two blocks leading up to Prospect Park. They...
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To Being Or Not To Being
photo by Sarah Crean and DPCWhat a terrific piece from Sarah Crean at Ditmas Park Corner on the CaribBEING House. Don't tell me you weren't curious when you saw the "box car" on the plaza at the Caton...
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The Sensational Seven
Were you to wander one shoppe north of Tafari Tribe on the Flabenue, with the frustratingly tantalizing name Tafari Cafe (where's the Ethiopian coffee we were promised?) above the entrance, you might...
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