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Risbo - Is It a New Sport? Nope. New Restaurant.
pic by Rachel of DNAInfoGet your Rizzes out of the closet folks. It's nearly Risbo season, with intramural leagues fast filling at the Parade Ground. Professional Risbo players have been spotted along...
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Public Housing - Why the 40 Is Half Full
A Supreme Court justice grew up in NYCHA. As did half the important hip-hop artists of our time, and poets, and teachers and city workers and any number of people who now make enormous contributions to...
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The Creeps Are Out of the Closet
Sorry so off topic, Flatbush.The Q understands that, like duped natives, we were given a few trinkets in exchange for our privacy. Shiny cell phone with digital calendar and free magazines and...
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PLGNA Needs Your Body
Okay, that sounds kinda creepy, but it's also kinda true. Show up to the annual meeting, find out what they're up to and how to get involved. With CB9 in shambles, groups like the Prosepct Lefferts...
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Dreaming Of a Hearse for Barry Hers
God bless journalist Nathan Tempey, for staying on top of the Barry Hers story (he of 60 Clarkson and many others). Read this when you have more than a moment. It's really pretty mind-blowing what's...
View ArticleBrooklyn Assemblywoman Charged in Assault of Her 12-Year-Old Son
Brooklyn Assemblywoman Charged in Assault of Her 12-Year-Old Son: Sources: Diana RichardsonHeartbreaking. On so many levels. Mother and child are inseparable. I'm certain the family will work through...
View ArticleIf That Classy Guy In the White House Can Show A Brave Face...
Okay, so that didn't turn out so well. My words of optimism:Welcome back to the Resistance, everyone. We've been here before, we'll probably be here again. Half the country was not happy...now they...
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Classy Trashy
Not long ago I found an empty tin of sardines next to a newspaper on the seats for the inbound Q. It never occurred to me to grab the salty fish at the start of my day, down a few minnows and hop on...
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Local Meeting of KKK Taking Place At This Kar Klubhouse
It always sux to be vandalized. And when the key-ed graffiti on your car reads KKK, it probably doesn't stand for Kit-Kat-Klub. This was awaiting a reader on his car this week.I'm sure you too have...
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A Little Bit About a Lot of Things
(some of you - a very, very small number of you - may recall the name of this post from Donald Kaul in the morning paper. Like I said, a very, very, very small number of you...name the city the...
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Here They Come...Council Wannabes Start Their Engines
The single least engaged, least effective Councilperson in all of NYC. Maybe ever? That's yours folks! Mathieu Eugene. Google him. Try to find his online presence, beyond old youtube videos with...
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Learning to Crawl - This Sunday
If you want tix or to RSVP, just go to the site, y'all.Here's the gist:Presented in partnership with the Parkside Empire | Flatbush Avenue Merchants Association, the PLG Fall Bar and Business Crawl...
View ArticleFuture of Neighborhood Decided By Same Dozen People At Every Damn Meeting
Make that a baker's dozen, since the Q is often there too.Given the tenor of the debates, and the issues at stake, one might assume that large numbers of your fellow Leffertsonians and Southern Crown...
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TGITG. Thank God It's ThanksGiving, Y'all
So your life was getting a little dull, routine, predictable? Well have I got an election result for YOU!Don't know about y'all, but I've been tooling around the political block a time or two, long...
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Vision of the Future - Empanada City
Everyone has their own vision of Utopia. For some, it's a lush green land of hills, vales and verdant meadows. For others, it's a digitized world of robots serving your every need as you toss back...
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Big New Buildings Coming - Some Affordable Housing Included
The other night at the CB9 ULURP meeting, it became clear that it is very difficult for some folks to grasp how little control they actually have over their own neighborhood. The reason the Q was so...
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a sunday in the life, part I
So many things happening all at once, it's hard to keep track of it all. I'll leave it to others to parse the meaning, the unprecedented and unpresidential meaning of calling into question the...
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Fenimore One Block Downzoning
As discussed here before in detail, here's an article that does a fair job of framing the issue.Patch on FenimoreAgain at the CB9 General Board Meeting, the misinformers were out to squash a simple,...
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New Apartments Coming to Martense
Story on YIMBY from RebeccaI'm a big fan of Martense. Anybody who lives there want to comment on what they think of this mercifully reasonably sized building?
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Sunday Stroll, Part Duh. The Remake of a Neighborhood
So much construction! So little time before the next meltdown! Hurry, hurry, fellas. Gotta get in while the gettin's good! A few more shots from within spittin' distance of the Q's abode. An obvious...
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