Monthly Archives: March 2007

There is a definite movement in Bed-Stuy. Bed-Stuy restaurateurs and their chefs are giving long time and newer residents many good reasons to eat out in Bed-Stuy and not float away to Clinton Hill/Ft. Greene or to venture across the East River. This movement challenges the taste buds and the accepted eating norms within this [...]

Bedford Radiance
This is one of the many beautiful pieces of art in our neighborhood. I wonder where this door leads? Â

Midnight, under a full moon. Like a werewolf, I stalked down Myrtle Avenue. Mock predatory and probing in what was once called by some, “live and die Bed-Stuy,” my game face was stoic and daunting. I moved past the corner bodega and around those hanging out in front of the neoned liquor store. [...]

Are our Clinton Hill neighbors getting their very own Brooklyn Industries store?Â
A New York Times interview with Brooklyn Industries owners, Lexy Funk and Vahap Avsar, offered this little nugget of info:
“In February, after vacating a 22,000-square-foot warehouse in South Williamsburg in favor of a larger facility opposite the Brooklyn Navy Yard, they decided [...]

Nice Spring Saturday. People smiling as they move on Myrtle. A good mood shared by all.
Then I almost step into spit placed in the middle of the sidewalk. Not to make too dramatic a point, does it have any value when placed on our sidewalk? I could care less about the [...]

Myrtle Place, the Scarano project on Myrtle and Nostrand, is inching toward completion. The ground floor of this development is retail space (14,000 sq. ft.)  and since I live in the area I’m hoping for what I think we need the most: a pharmacy. I know it’s not a glamorous wish, but [...]

The 39 Steps
When these properties on the corner of Nostrand and Madison caught my eye, I thought for sure they would be affordable. In my opinion they look OK, although, as I mentioned on a previous post, I’m not into stairs in front of a residence unless it’s a brownstone or an old frame [...]

Hart Street Brownstones

[ February 18, 2012; 2:40 pm; ] Well folks, Zengine,  in a comment to a recent post (see 3/18 Event post) correctly chided me: I gave short shrift to the new belly dancing class series . Mea culpa.!  Soy acusado!!!! .

Now, this fabulous addition to the Bed-Stuy wellness community will be the subject of a more substantial posting in a [...]

Remember that old show In Search of hosted by Leonard Nimoy? For those of you who don’t remember, it was a cool show in which Spock would unravel the mysteries of the Sasquatch, UFOs or some other strange event or legend. The show was a bit spooky because they would present evidence of [...]