Nostrand Park

No Milk Inna Di Cornflakes

This precocious little one manages to invoke the spirit of all ah wi auntie dem (all of our aunties).  Very cute: There are some subtitles in case you need some help understanding.  And here's our own rough translation: Father: What happened?  What did your aunt to do you?  Why isn’t she behaving herself? Daughter: She ran after me.  And so I had to turn around and run after her and spank her.  I’m leaving her alone! And she made me go to my stinkin&rs...

de Blasio & Liu Victorious At Last

After months of campaigning New Yorkers finally decided on their Democratic nominees for Public Advocate and Comptroller.  Yesterday's runoff victories by former city council members Bill de Blasio and John Liu of Brooklyn and Queens respectfully brought this year's primary season to a close.  Both de Blasio and Liu bested big name opponents, Mark Green in the Public Advocate's race and David Yassky in the runoff for Comptroller.  Green a longtime New York politico who was running...

NP Roundup

  Huffington Post: Kaparot: Yom Kippur in Crown Heights Brooklyn the Borough: The Job of a Brooklyn Cop PolitickerNY: Liu and De Blasio Pitch to Bed-Stuy MyBrooklynReport: Can You Still Campaign on Affordable Housing in Brooklyn? WNYC: End of Suburban Sprawl? WNYC: Is the Eminent Domain Process Fair? NYTimes (The Local): Jobs, jobs, jobs I Love Franklin Ave: Crown Heights Projects Moving Forward

"Old people vote"

Where My Ladies At

Poor Mikey Lupica.  Little Mikey thought he had his first original thought in fifteen years yesterday and he rushed to his wordprocessor to bang out the piece that would make the young writers in the newsroom think he's again worthy of their adoration.  Sorry Mikey, back to the drawing board.  Your piece yesterday on David Paterson's determination to push on with his campaign reeks of the pedestrian political analysis that's undermining our nation's political process, and is flagr...

Gates Cooperative

APPLICATION AVAILABLE HERE! From TheGatesCoop.org: The Gates Cooperative [is] an exciting affordable homeownership opportunity in the culturally diverse Bedford-Stuyvesant community in Brooklyn. This 34-unit, newly-constructed Green Design/Energy Efficient building offers all the comforts of home with a contemporary flare! The large one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments are for sale through a City-sponsored lottery process. You will be able to move into your new apartment in Spring 2009. The ...

Gmar Chatimah Tova

  The powerHouse Arena is pleased to invite you to an evening of graphic nonfiction: Stitches: A Memoir by David Small A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld Monday, September 28, 2009, 7–9PM The powerHouse Arena 37 Main Street, Brooklyn For more information: (718) 666-3049 RSVP: rsvp@powerhousearena.com The authors discuss and sign their new works of graphic nonfiction. David Small's memoir of childhood cancer—and his family's mad-scientist home-cures—h...

The Dinkins Effect

Plowman, Meet the Press/APThroughout last year's presidential campaign we heard a lot about a supposed "Bradley Effect," a term used to describe discrepancy between pre-election voter opinion of black candidates and actual results at the polls.  Named after loser Los Angeles Mayor and gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley who suffered a surprising defeat in 1982's gubernatorial race in spite of holding a significant lead in the polls going into election day.  In primary after primary and...

It’s Not Digiorno, It’s Delivery

Yes, Crown Heights suffers from a dearth of dine-in establishments, but sometimes there are ways around that.  As we have blogged about before, instead of going to the food, sometimes you can have the food brought to you - through local food delivery services like Take Out Taxi and Go To Girls, that deliver food from restaurants that otherwise do not deliver (to Crown Heights or at all). Dine-In Delivery Services Sadly, it seems that since we first blogged about them, Take Out Taxi has...