Cornelia Street, by brandi66
A Pot Farm Grows…: For once, comments in a New York tabloid we can get behind: Legalize it already! The cops took advantage of a house fire to break into a neighboring building and steal 80-100 pot plants.
Stop Kenneth Cole: Now the Kenneth Cole blog extends its gratingly lame social commentary to hipsters and condos in Bushwick? But props for mixing such tired observations with the Hipster Olympics and a Make the Road anti-gentrification protest. One note: hipsters don’t “make an appearance” in the MTR video — the camera specifically sought them out. Look, white people existing! White evil knows no bounds, I tell you. Bonus: o noos, the projects r gross!
Another Domino: A Westchester developer snapped up a large property on Stanhope near Wyckoff, citing nearby condo developments as a draw.
The Violence Continues: Another victim of the ongoing mayhem in Bushwick.
Man August 25th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Memories are so funny especially when Liza Sabater adds such pointed words.
While she was spent her harrowing months as another sub-par-temporary teacher I was also in Bushwick High School.
Those “riots” in school were actually fights among students that caused no school closing or even a break in anyone’s class schedule.
There is only one wall leading to the cafeteria about 6 feet long and a small head laceration would drench it.
Granted since she only stayed a while she missed the kid who brought a pipe bomb to school and them moving all the students to the 3rd floor to be “safe”. It was dud.
I’m a numismatic blogger who is in Bushwick everyday for decades never been robbed, threatened, shot, stabbed, or killed.
Dresden August 26th, 2008 at 4:17 am
It’s horrible how racist and out of touch anti-gentrification can be. And what are they against? The future? Sorry things change.
I never had a rent-control anything, or any subsidized housing. I had to work hard to have the privilege of destroying your neighborhood and way of life.
Like being white and a displaced cultural orphan from the suburbs is some sort of fucking manna from heaven.
Dresden August 26th, 2008 at 4:22 am
I mean, for fuck’s sake, if you’re from Bushwick and you’ve grown up right next to all this money and opportunity – i.e. Manhattan – and all along your rent is subsidized, and you couldn’t rub two nickels together or get a decent job, wha tha fu? Wha tha fu?
Girl August 27th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Kenneth Cole’s whole ad campaign is ridiculous.