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Don't Bank On It
Back at the dawn of the 21st century, twas a bank on the banks of the Caton. HSBC was its name-o, but it closed not long after the Q opened his account there (unrelated). Right now it's my favorite...
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The Q Forms New Trio Called R.O.N.
The Q is tired of this stuff too, but I must honor my commitment to publicly share my ongoing experience with the neighborhood I love. I've essentially been creating an archive of "what happened" and I...
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Cul de Sacked
Unless you pass by every day you're unlikely to see the drastic change that's taken place on St. Paul's dead-end half-block just south of Church. In just a few short months the sleepy block has given...
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PLGNA Rising
With all the hubbub on The Facebook and CB9 and the various and sundry smear campaigns from lovable local hate groups, its nice to see that the peoples can come out in peace and fellowship and get down...
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Vigilante Justice For the Q`
If you're just joining the show, you could do worse than to read this from BKLYNER about the Q and his sad travails.It would seem someone appealed to Alicia Boyd and Imani Henry and got Proud Bastard...
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Lefferts Pop-Up Art Show - WN7
The day after the biggest midterm elections of the...well, ever...come celebrate the Blue Wall with a Harvey Wallbanger, or Harry Wallhanger, or whatever it is people drink at Pop-Up Gallery Shows...
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Fighting the Actual Enemies
Here's what events of the last couple years have taught me.If you lie enough, use social media to turn up the volume on those lies, use race-baiting language, refuse to listen to dissent, decry...
View ArticleA City's Disgrace - Kicking Paying Tenants Out of Slumlord's Building
As in the Deep South last night, sometimes the Deplorables eek out victories. From Kathleen Culliton of Patch comes this video and story. about the Q's multi-year education in heartlessness:The block...
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Oh Deer
So I'm walking westerly on Clarkson the other day and what do my eyes spy but a new bus stop advert, truly an incredible piece of vertical real estate for the City to share issues of great concern to...
View ArticleGive Lease A Chance
More than 100 formerly homeless women and children, living for up to five years in apartments owned by notorious slumlord Barry Hers, have been told to vamoose by a Brooklyn judge who has sided with...
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Predictably Predictable
46 Crown from the East. That's Tivoli Towers on the right.Thx to Kadia Goba and BKLNER for attending the City Council meetingYou'd be forgiven for asking: If the government is the ultimate sovereign...
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Patio Gardens Was...A Movie Theater?
Ever wondered how the Patio Gardens apartments got their name? Was it the patio? The gardens? Or was it taken from the name of a movie palace that used to was on that very plot of land? As it turns...
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Steak House on Jean-Jacques Dessalines?
Patrick Steak House. That's what it says on the Community Board Agenda for tonight - a new restaurant looking for a liquor license. 227 Rogers cum Jean-Jacques Dessalines Blvd. Ironies and...
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Jackie Robinson PS375 Deserves A Solid Look
If you're a parent of wee ones, perhaps fretting the jump from pampers to pre-school, do yourself a big favor. The Q's been through it all before, and he's got some knowledge to drop on you that might...
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We're Living In An Echo Chamber
Extra, Extra! Read All About It.It being Lefferts Manor, the stately Hood in a Hood in a Hood. (LM, in Lefferts Gardens, in Flatbush)As housing prices have finally stalled, at least temporarily, we can...
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Tonight: Opening at The Chameleon BK
Here's a tip. Great art. Great food and drink. Great company. That's pretty much the best life has to offer, right there. Save the s-e-x part, which is absolutely NOT part of the plan for this evening....
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The Parkside Plaza Needs You!
I know it seems the plaza in front of the Q at Parkside has always been a lively place to sit and drink a coffee or explore the CaribBEING container or protest a blogger or overhear a conversation not...
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What Goes Up Might Not Come Down
Elevators. Where would a modern metropolis be without them? For that matter, where would our neighbors to the north be without them?Just ask. They've been dealing with shitty service for years.The NY...
View ArticleShades of Racist?
Of all the nutty things about 2018, for the Q the nuttiest will be the threats and protests that came my way via my good friends Alicia Boyd and Imani Henry. I was prepared for their ire - well, Boyd's...
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