Rosie Perez on the G word in Brooklyn

Rosie Perez talked to me/NY Mag about newcomers and saying hello to your neighbors. Say hello to Rosie Perez. And me.

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Fire in Fort Greene

A fire broke out of a 3rd floor apartment in “The Griffin” building on Lafayette and S Oxford St on Saturday evening. Cops on the scene say some residents suffered from minor smoke inhalation and that the damage was confined to the one apartment, but as of 9:10 pm on Saturday, the fire hoses were [...]

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The Unusuals on Location

Amber Tamblyn fans, take note: Filming in Brooklyn notes that The Unusuals will be shooting today in the neighborhood, around the intersection of Vanderbilt and DeKalb. Send us pictures if you’ve got them!

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Fort Greene stinks

We posted last week about the tardiness of our neighborhood’s trash collection. Well since then the trash has been sitting on the sidewalk for 7 days! Trash starts to stink when left to the elements for that long, and it didn’t help that everybody (and I didn’t notice any exceptions in a cursory stroll through [...]

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Late winter in Fort Greene Park

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Are FG Trash collectors messing up?

A reader complained to us about the sorry state of sanitation collection in Fort Greene (it’s not our fault, ok?). Looking around at the trash-strewn sidewalks, he may be on to something. These piles of recycling on S Oxford have been there since yesterday morning. Anyone else noted problems with collection? We’ll put in a [...]

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The turnstile is dead. Long live the turnstile!

There was an odd scene outside the Lafayette C stop this morning: MTA workmen were lifting out part of the subway turnstile as a part of what turns out to be regular maintenance. The workmen told me the stiles (technically, “barriers”) get changed after a million turns, which amounts to about 2 years. By my [...]

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Back in business

I know, I know. We haven’t posted for months and here we are back again, acting as if we never stopped. Well, after a long absence, caused mainly by unforgiving work schedules and general life turbulence, we’re back in business and posting again. When we can.

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Tree Huggers on Myrtle

The outline of the tree on Myrtle and Carlton looked a bit unnerving the other night, so it was a relief to see the figure of a man hugging the trunk was an art installation when I went back in the light of today’s winter sun. It’s a year-long installation that’s part of an international [...]

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The Paramount Returns?

We may be late to the news on this, but just read that Long Island University, having built a new athletics center, is planing to have the Paramount Theater on DeKalb and Flatbush returned to its former glory as a movie palace (or general theater?). News and background on the Paramount here.

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