Posts tagged "Bizarre Brooklyn"
JUST DAYS BEFORE THE LEASES EXPIRED, Thor Equities, the realtors who gobbled up Coney Island’s thuggy-but-fun Astroland, ran into a roadblock named Bloomberg. The Mayor unveiled a plan that will transform Coney Island into a year-round entertainment destination (read South Street Seaport) with seaside attractions (read: miniature golf) and a stronger residential community (read: zillion-dollar condos.) The Mayor also gave an additional $50 million to implement the plan after previously pledging $23 million. Combined with the Brooklyn Borough President’s $7 [...]
Posted in The City on November 21st, 2007 | 
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Bizarre Brooklyn Jerry Saieh real estate
We think having dummies for friends is, on a scale of 1 to 10, a solid 11 on the creep meter. Last Friday, traffic cops stopped Timothy Tietjen, 32, of Middle Island for driving the L.I.E. with his unhealthily-tanned CPR dummy buddy. Tietjen had been doing this for six months so that he could use the HOV lane (reserved for drivers with two or more passengers), shaving hours from his weekly commute. Why the cops took so long to stop [...]
Posted in The City on March 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn commuting Olena Adames traffic
Let us turn for a nano-second from the site of Britney’s panty-less in-betweenness to a more important site — the Atlantic Yards project, a $4 billion office and residential development that would build an arena for the Nets and 16 skyscrapers along a 22-acre tract in downtown Brooklyn–the biggest real estate project in the borough’s history. (see before and after simulated photos above). Bruce Ratner, CEO of Forest CityRatner, isn’t bringing pro b-ball to Brooklyn because he’s [...]
Posted in The City on February 6th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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MSG digs dirt on Ranger cheerleader: we don’t know who’s right, but something smells fishy about MSG execs who’ve dug up a ton of dirt on Courtney Prince, ex-captain of the Ranger cheerleaders (for those of you who haven’t been to a hockey game lately–yes, they have cheeerleaders on skates, who do cute things like ride the Zamboni and, shovels in hand, scoop up ice near the net). Prince, you might remember, filed a sex harassment lawsuit again the Garden. [...]
Posted in The City on January 16th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn flash
The above photo was taken today, January 13, 2007, in Brooklyn, NY. We are not making this up. While this is not absolute proof that global warming is at hand, we choose to be afraid. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, most global warming over the past 50 years is attributable to human activity.
Here are the likely consequences, with some NYC thrown in.
1. frequency and intensity of extreme weather events (like 20 more above 100 degree days in [...]
Posted in The City on January 13th, 2007 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn climate change
Recharger, at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn last week to visit his uncle recovering from a heart attack, noticed that “the pre-eminent treatment facility and academic medical center in the Borough of Brooklyn” gives garbage a good name. “I don’t want to be here anymore- you’re lucky. You get to leave,” said Rose Chen, in for chronic depression. Then she showed us her room. Because orderlies hadn’t cleaned for three days, trash was piled up, her bed was unmade, old [...]
Posted in The City on December 14th, 2006 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn health Susan Cruz
BECAUSE WINTER IS NIGH, REMINDING HIM THAT EVEN MEMORIES OF SOFT KISSES AT A CORNER TABLE IN A SOHO BAR CAN, IF NOT PROPERLY TENDED, WILT, Recharger wants to stare at a photo of Green Acres, a community garden at the intersection of Franklin and Greene Avenues in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn–the very intersection where Jake Gyllenhaal boinked Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain. Built by local residents with the help of GreenThumb— the largest community gardening program in the country–and Bette [...]
Posted in The City on October 31st, 2006 | No Comments »
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Bizarre Brooklyn community gardens Ricky Sit
Karl Marx, the guineafowl recently found in a dazed wander on a Williamsburg sidewalk, desperately needs a home that doesn’t want to eat him. Guineahens are of the same order as pheasants and turkeys. In the wild, these African natives are seed-eating, ground-nesting birds. In capitivity, they are either cooked and eaten, or kept in gardens to eat insects. But Recharger loves them because, unlike every girl he’s ever dated, they are faithful mates.
This in mind, Recharger has contacted [...]
Posted in The City on October 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Bizarre Brooklyn
Recharger has attended a number of West Indian Day Parades–in the rain, the merciless sun, the temperate wisps of autumn–made his way a full mile down Eastern Parkway, past hundreds of routi and craft-jewelry stands, and in all those years, he has only seen one thing of more-than-passing interest.
Posted in The City on September 3rd, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Bizarre Brooklyn parades
Broken Angel on the corner of Quincy and Downing in Clinton Hill, a few blocks from Pratt is not–as Gothamist laughingly referred to it, a “Brooklyn tenement version of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona (I seriously doubt the writer remembers his visit to the Sagrada Familia). It is pretty damn cool. Arthur Wood bought the building in 1971 (for $2000–ouch!), and has been working on it ever since. Two things I love about the building: viewed from a few blocks [...]
Posted in The City on August 5th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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