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- Paid $800 Interest On $2,000 Purchase And Ruined Friend’s Credit Score
- Loaned $5,000 To Friends To Make Music Demo; They Spent It On Guitars.
- Didn’t Buy House for $18,000. Now It’s Worth $160,000.
- Lost $1200 In A Card Game
- After Paying $39,000 To Debt Consolidation Company, She’s Left With $45,000 Debt.
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Monthly Archives: December 2006
Another Paris Hilton Video!
THE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION AUTHORITY NOW SAYS IT WON’T BUILD FOUR NEW BRONX SCHOOLS ON THE LAND BETWEEN CONCOURSE VILLAGE WEST AND EAST 156TH STREET (map) because, inexplicably, the site is a mercury and benzene dumping ground, says NYI. The Mott … Continue reading
Paddleball Champ Rediscoverd
Legendary 82-year-old all-New York City paddleball champ, Elaine Fein, still has her chops.
Flash!
Atlantic Yards Project approved: A three-member state panel greenlights the Bruce Ratner’s $4.3 billion project that will not only include an arena for the Nets, but 16 office and residential towers that will strip that part of Brooklyn of anything … Continue reading
The Worst Book Ever
Dear Mr. Coelho: Here at Recharger The Dog, we have a rule: never read a bestseller recommended by more than one person. Ignoring our own advice, we started The Alchemist with trepidation. It began with a cliché that we’ve come … Continue reading
Tastes like chicken
A big fan of dog food with horsey remains, Recharger doesn’t get the latest fuss over illegal meat. Last Saturday, city health inspectors threw a hissy fit when they found 15 pounds of iguana meat for sale in a West … Continue reading
Best Pizza on an Abandoned Airfield.
Like three-million other losers stuck forever in the bowels of Brooklyn, when Recharger thinks about Grimaldi’s pizza, he salivates. The mere mental image of the extra-thin, extra-crisp crust is freakier than an LSD flashback. Now the pizzeria, located under the … Continue reading
TLC = Tough Latkes, Cabby!
Recharger, a former cabbie (see above–note 1981 prices), has long known that the three most evil governments in world history were the German Nazis, the Stalinist Bolsheviks, and the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission. So when the TLC … Continue reading
Holiday reminder: only Derek Jeter fans permitted to sit in traffic
Apparently upset, like us, that he still lives in Brooklyn, this gentleman, our former social studies teacher, sat down last Saturday on 3rd Ave between 88th and 90th Streets in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. When this failed to get him a … Continue reading
Hey Pops, pass the salt.
NOSTALGIA FOR A SIMPLER, GENTLER PAST OVERCOMES RECHARGER. The Automat is back. Bamn!, brainchild of David Leong and Robert Kwak, has the same little windowed compartments for hot foods we hungry doggies dug at the original Horn & Hardart. Making … Continue reading
Happy Chanukah from Recharger
The Jewish Maid (a Chanukah song sung to tune of “Union Maid”) There once was a Jewish maid Who never was afraid Of Syrian spears and Greek Racketeers And Hellenized creeps who gave them aid No taxes she would pay, … Continue reading