Monthly Archives: November 2007

[ December 1, 2007; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] This weekend there’s an interesting seminar for Bed-Stuy residents interested in living green. Here’s the announcement:

The Division of Continuing Education and the Department of Architectural Technology at New York City College of Technology are collaborating once again to present an afternoon seminar, “Anatomy of a Brownstone: Greening Your Home and Living Sustainably” on Saturday, [...]

A Visit to Big Brothers Hardware on Fulton [Reclaimed Home]
How Do I Love Bed-Stuy? Let Me Count the Ways [Bed-Stuy Banana]
From L.A. to Jamaica to Bed-Stuy [El Blunt and Beautiful Nomad(o)]
Abandoning Your Shopping Cart as an Act of Corporate Disobedience [Lambent, Vast & Ruthless]

Do or Die sent me a bit of news that just has to be included in an addendum to my Thanksgiving Appreciation List. It looks like the New York Literary Society will be opening a reading room in Bed-Stuy. The location will be on the corner of Stuyvesant and Greene Avenues. Click [...]

Herkimer and New York (#2)
#1 — $2750 — 2 br: I’ve thought about the cost of living in New York City twice in the past two days. It hit me when I looked at this property–it’s a nice looking apartment but the price is in the stratosphere. The second time it hit me [...]

Today’s New York Times has a good article on the positive effects of being grateful. I found it to be an enjoyable read because the research cited in the article comes out of the area of positive psychology which is one of my areas of interest. Positive psychology is an area of psychology that [...]

[ November 28, 2007; 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The next 79th precinct community council meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 28th at 7:00 p.m. at 585 Dekalb Avenue, 2nd Floor (between Walworth Street and Nostrand Avenue).

To find out more about the 79th precinct click here. Community council meetings for the 79th precinct are regularly held on the 4th Wednesday of the month.

Remember the derelict building on Madison & Lewis that the changeling featured as the final Haunted House on 10/31?

That was then.
This is now:

I don’t know how much influence we had, but we’ll take whatever credit we can. Mainly, I’m just very pleased to see that this eyesore has been tidied up!
Now if they’d just fix [...]

Did you know that last week was Bed-Stuy Week over on BushwickBk? Apparently it was–they couldn’t stop talking about us over there! The latest Bed-Stuy post by Jeremy said that his Bushwick neighborhood was better than Bed-Stuy. He even goes so far as to call our neighborhood Pig-Stuy!
Beyond being the Run-Down Bodega [...]

Frame houses on Dekalb near Franklin