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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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Tag Archives: Bizarre Brooklyn
This is your roller coaster on drugs
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 … Continue reading
When bad things happen to good dummies
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 … Continue reading
A Turd Grows in Brooklyn
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 … Continue reading
Flash!
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 … Continue reading
Mosquitoes invade Brooklyn. In January
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 … Continue reading
Nightmare On Tenth Avenue
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 … Continue reading
Something Nice About Brooklyn
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 … Continue reading
Save Karl Marx
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 … Continue reading
Yawn…
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, … Continue reading
Another Reason Why I Must Live in Clinton Hill
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 … Continue reading