Archive for October, 2011
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Bushwick: Bedbug Central?
December 31st, 2007
by shaftbean, from the BushwickBK.com flickr poolCan’t we catch a break? Once again, Bushwick takes a number one on the shit list, this time for bedbug complaints. Again, I emphasize that this is bedbug complaints, not…
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Bushwick Clicks 12/28/07
December 28th, 2007
by shaftbean from the BushwickBK flickr poolGood, Bad, Then Good Again: Block magazine profiles Tony’s Pizza on Knickerbocker, whose owner bought the place in 1976. Gulp. They’ve seen a lot.
That’s Rather Done to Death: Bushwick…
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Bushwick’s $725,000 Condominium
December 27th, 2007
Earth to developers: if high-priced nice condos didn’t sell in Bushwick at the tail end of the real estate boom, crappy condos are not going to sell for even higher prices in a relative real estate bust. Sure, they…
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Drunk and/or Joyrider Mows Down Trees
December 27th, 2007
It was 3am on the morning of Christmas Eve, when I woke up to the screech of a car speeding away. Normally I would have just gone back to sleep, but I had a weird, delirious feeling that it…
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Luxury? No, but ‘Fedders’ Slap-Job Solidly Okay
December 27th, 2007
They popped the facade on these Jefferson Street houses almost overnight, so it was a surprise when I passed them on my way to the Myrtle J that they were in the process of taking down the scaffolding. I’m…
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Le Conakry: It Hits and Misses
December 24th, 2007
Broadway, marking the border of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, is home to several restaurants specializing in the cuisine of ethnic communities on both sides of the boulevard. One of them is Le Conakry, named for the peninsular capital city of…
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Bushwick Clicks 12/21/07
December 21st, 2007
María Hernández/Knickerbocker Park, by mtmont — from the BushwickBK flickr poolYeah Das My Dog, So?: Jen is shocked to discover that the pink stuffed animal in a pile of trash is actually someone’s dog — someone who…
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Now That’s Ghetto: Stove as Home Heater
December 21st, 2007
Niko warms up in front of the makeshift heater.My whole heating system is messed up: the boiler leaks and the house is freezing in the back and hot in the front. Last year when the thermostat broke for a…
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Bushwick Apartment Roundup 12/19/07
December 20th, 2007
#1 — $1200 — 2br rr: Oh my Gee-dash-dee. Ready for this? Cuz it’s begun. A railroad apartment facing the park is available in the first building to be renovated on this block of Starr. I will bet you…
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¡Cocinando!: Palomilla
December 18th, 2007
Half the time I would go to a Cuban restaurant, this is what I would eat. Palomilla is thin-sliced grilled steak smothered in onions, seasoned with adobo and lime. Adobo in the Spanish Caribbean is usually salt, pepper, oregano,…
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