It’s the day after Halloween and already Manhattan Ave is getting ready for the holidays! *Thanks to Jay Lombard for emailing me the pic he took on his way to […]
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A Humboldt Halloween
Happy Halloween! Here’s a video I spied on YouTube and it turns out to be the house of a family I knew growing up on my old block. This cool […]
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Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District
According to Brownstoner, the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company Historic District has been created and approved unanimously at today’s LPC Meeting. This is fantastic news! If there is one thing I […]
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Pencil Factory Landmarks Hearing
Received an email from a reader with this heads-up: PUBLIC MEETING ITEM No. 4LP-2264Staff: D. PresaTime: 12:10-1:30 PM The Landmark Preservation Commission is holding one of its biennial blockbuster meetings […]
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The Legend of the G Train
Came across this new blog today, a tongue-in-cheek about the elusive G Train. “…the mythical and legendary G train that purportedly runs between the Smith/Ninth Street station in Brooklyn and […]
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Naked Guy: The Trilogy
The New York Post reports a follow up. I feel for the guy. I really do. He’s blaming a panic attack and while I don’t know for sure if it […]
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It’s Raining Production Assistants
Something has been pissing me off since I’ve moved in. I feel horrible even complaining about it considering other residents are dealing with bedbugs and toxic molds, but it just […]
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Grandpoint
Care of The Brooklyn Daily Egret, er, Eagle. Did you know that if you are in Greenpoint and you walk south on Manhattan Ave. the names of the streets run […]
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Naked Guy, Part Deux
Alright, I hate to dwell on Naked Guy but I was reading this which brought me to his blog which I then noticed his MySpace page and the “people he’d […]
Posted inCommunity
Us vs. Them
When I started this blog just a few months ago it was 1) because I had just moved back to the neighborhood after spending my twenties in Staten Island between […]