Google “brooklyn writer” and you’ll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it? People are coming in from all over. In fact, the physical act of moving your possessions from Manhattan to Brooklyn is now the equivalent of a two-year M.F.A. program. When you get to the other side, they hand you three Moleskine notebooks and a copy of “ ( Read more... )

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Thursday koaloha took me to see Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly, at Lillie's. Despite living in NYC for 10 years (as of this September, I meant to post my anniversary date but forgot), and Brooklyn for all but about 10 months of that time, I had never been to Red Hook. I'm not sure why, since I could easily ride my bike there. Even last weekend ( Read more... )

Cops in Carroll Gardens are hustling schoolkids onto trains. Police call it protection. Parents call it harassment.
by Aina Hunter
August 2nd, 2005 11:02 AM from The Village Voice


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