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The Election gambits had all failed. 2024 GOP presidential hopefuls were already offering background briefings to reporters on their courageous objections to the President’s insistence on his squatter’s rights to the Oval Office. But the coup-de-grace was finally delivered by a Washington Post exclusive: the Joint Chiefs and a joyous Secret Service detail had developed a discrete extraction method, although […]
I’ve been going to Vincent’s Barber Shop on Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn since I moved to the Ditmas Park area in 2003. Until recently, there has always been a packed crowd waiting for haircuts and shaves. And now, since COVID, when I walk into the shop, I wear a mask. Everyone who enters the shop has to wear a mask, […]
All right, let’s start at the beginning. According to the latest realty news about hip, happening Gowanus, those old red brick Roulston buildings under the F train at 9th Street that once housed a huge bakery, coffee grinders, and tons of groceries – followed by cobwebs and then artist lofts – will now be home to lots of office workers. […]
The world knew Buddy Scotto for almost 92 years, I was his friend for the past seven. I first heard about him when I worked for the Brooklyn Phoenix newspaper in the early 1980’s. He was known in the office for getting rid of the ‘stench’ that permeated Carroll Gardens when the wind blew in from the Gowanus Canal. […]
In my teens, I remember going to the movie theatre to watch ATL, Rapper TI was at the time, nearing the height of his pop culture presence. I had a crush on Lauren London who played TI’s love interest, Nunu – a standard infatuation for many boys at the time, and now (as she is still fine). ATL was my […]
Frustrated as we are the almost complete irrelevance of our vote in the Presidential race to the ultimate result, the desire of Brownstone Brooklyn voters to at least send a complete up and down the ballot repudiation to the GOP in its entirety has been cleverly frustrated by the Brooklyn GOP’s decision not to run candidates. Local Republicans in my […]
In June 1968 I was working my way through college as a back-office clerk in a brokerage house at 2 Wall Street. It was a deathly dull job. I sat across from Bob Kennedy who supervised reconciling the firm’s trading records for the First National Bank of Boston. In truth, there was only one way a newcomer would be able […]
ALEX TREBEK: Welcome to our candidates, from right to left in more ways than one: President Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden. Our categories are COVID, Russia, Immigration, Wall Street and The Apprentice. As always, remember that all answers should be in the form of a question. Good luck to you both as we begin our first Presidential Candidate […]
The 9th Street warehouses were erected in 1910, the Culver-Smith St line in 1927–1933 (Depression slowed things down). Over 100 buildings were condemned along the corridor between 9th & 10th Street but the Roulston properties were never in play. Why? The elevation of the span over the Canal was dictated by the War Department — the City was required to […]
Rolling Orange Bikes Tours (ROBT), the local Dutch bicycle shop-turned-touring company that thrives on international tourism, has been struggling to stay afloat the last six months. Shelly Mossey, ROBT owner and licensed New York City sightseeing guide, said the Dutch – who make up 100-percent of his customer base and who normally visit New York in the spring and autumn […]
