On Nabes, Names and Nuance
So the Q has a confession to make. He's been cheating on Lefferts, almost daily, as each morning he mounts 4-year-old Little Miss Clarkson Flatbed Jr. onto his fixed gear cruiser bike (what else?) and...
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Opposition Grows to Height of 626
The Q has written extensively about the new building going up at 626 Flatbush. It's certainly been the talk of the neighborhood lately, and a packed committee meeting at CB9 last week on the topic...
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Voting is Sexy
Let's go to the polls, shall we? While NYC tends to suffer a bit of a letdown in November on non-presidential election years, since our largely Democratic city chooses most of its winners in the...
View ArticleWow - Polling Place Not Open Til Two Hours After Voting To Start
The Q just got word that the polling place at the Flatbush Library (22 Linden) was not only not ready for business at 7am, but it wasn't ready for a two full hours after. Seems someone didn't bother to...
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Safety First, Kids!
A local daycare center is showing kids how to cross the street the Brooklyn Way! Kids in Kings County are so precocious! Adorable!Elizabeth C.
View ArticleNeed Help Voting? Poll Workers There to Help
Word reached the Q that a poll worker at the Jackie Robinson school, when asked how to do the paper ballot, told our neighbor to just fill in all the circles on "the left." That would be for the...
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First Shots of Photoshop War For 626
Paul G. comes through big with his own self-described "crappy" re-rendering of a "crappy" rendering of 626 Flatbush, this time with Patio Gardens left in for good measure.
View ArticleI've Been Jerkin' On the Flab'nue, All My Live Long Day
The Q's been digging the Peppa's, (nee Danny and Peppa's) jerk chicken and provision since the day he moved to the area. My only beef on the chicken has been their smoking out the neighborhood every...
View ArticleMust to Read
The guys with big smiles and dapper suits have certainly taken notice. The "trades" write about us all the time. Here's a general interest piece on recent apartment developments in Lefferts, and I can...
View ArticleBe a Tree Guardian Angel - Sunday November 17
It's true folks. The Parkside Committee has been given word that the promised Trees of Parkside will be here in time for a Thanksgiving miracle. And the committee has been busy preparing for the big...
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Rendering Us Speechless -- and a Bonus
Now from Mike Cetera's Pro Bono Design comes this:What child wouldn't love to play with THOSE blocks? I love how the houses between Fenimore and Hawthorne look like pocket lighters stacked side to...
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State Turns Over Our Armory To the City
In a move that brings us one step closer to having a giant indoor space all our own (and by "our" I mean Community District 9). The Daily News reports that the big ol' building on Bedford near Eastern...
View ArticlePsssst...this one's big
Mr. Jim Mamary, he of the Lincoln Park Tavern, has placed for review a liquor license request for 504 Flatbush, the space right next to Elite Salon and the Coop Design Studio, just north of Lincoln...
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Ocean and Flatbush 100 Year Ago
Yes ma'am. That's where the Flatbush Trees now stand. That's the corner of Flatbush and Ocean and Empire (originally Malbone Street).Montrose Morris, you are my heroine. I don't know how you do it, but...
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Where Patio Gardens Got Its Name
Old-timers will laugh that the Q never knew, but I always assumed "Patio Gardens" was a reference to little outdoor patios on each unit. Yes I thought the word "patio" was odd, since they seem to be...
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Bob Marvin's Photos At Tugboat
As long as Bob's the one shooting, the Q's got no reason to duck. In fact, I'm durn well tickled to tell you 'bout his pitchers hangin' at the Tugboat, with a shindig happening this coming Thursday the...
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Signs of the Times
I was always a fan of '70s and '80s graffiti (aesthetically only of course. I would never dreeeeam of tagging something myself), so I was pleasantly surprised to see that fleabag hotel magnate Moses...
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Wow. The Boom Is Moving South Quickly
The first person to say SoCro gets a shillelagh to the ol' noggin!On the Q's 6 minute bike trip up to Community Board 9's office I often ride by the grounds of once-grand St. Ignatius Catholic Church...
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SBS - Not Just For Manhattan No More
I don't know about y'all, but I'm tickled pink that the new Select Buses are coming to, or rather through, Lefferts. Rogers and Nostrand ride like ice these days, thanks to the new B44 SBS thang...
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