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The Sad Lives of Bed-Stuy Gas Jockeys: If you weren’t already a tad wary of the shady gas station characters that offer to pump your gas and clean your car windows, you will be after reading this.[NY Times]
Just Tell ‘Em You’re Going Over The Bridge: A cabbie fakes car trouble to avoid dropping a passenger off in Bed-Stuy. This hilarious story is mentioned in our forum, but click over to see Curbed readers’ responses. What are you supposed to do when you live in the hood and the yellow taxi drivers won’t take you there?[Curbed]
Gentrification 101: Here’s a way to get taxis to bring you home: tell them you live in East Fort Greene! [Null Objects]
New Charter School in the Nabe: Two new charter schools, La Cima Charter School and the Bedford-Stuyvesant Collegiate Charter School, will open this fall at 800 Gates Avenue. According to this article, La Cima will be “a bilingual English/Spanish school starting with kindergarten and first grade students, that plans to offer ‘a rigorous and relevant academic program,’ while the Collegiate Charter School will offer a structured, college preparatory academic environment, a longer school day and school year, and have high expectations for both academics and behavior.” [Brooklyn Eagle]
Dethrone the King: A Fulton Street property with “development potential” has been put on the market for 3.2 million. There’s currently a Burger King on the site. Bye-bye, Burger King! [Brooklyn Eagle]
Homicide: Yet again, another young black male has been shot and killed. [NY Sun]
What’s Happening in the Forum?
Here are a few items of note in the forum. You can access the forum by clicking on the Forum tab at the top of this page.
Tiny Cup Cafe is hiring. (Job Opening at Neighborhood Cafe)[Help Wanted]
Here’s the post about the Bed-Stuy phobic cabbie. (Cabbies Gone Loco) [The Crime-y Grimy]
Brooklyn Art Gallery is looking for handmade items. [Help Wanted]
If you want to make money blogging, here are some tips. (Bed-Stuy Bloggers – Are you making money blogging?) [Random Stuff]
About The Changeling
I'm living and blogging in North Stuy.
That shooting happened right down the street from me. It was a drive-by. First there was a pop of several shots and then there was return fire that sounded like it came from an automatic. It may have started on Quincy and Nostrand but the corner of Monroe and Nostrand was taped off and there were shell casings found on the ground at the corner.
It’s not unusual to hear shots from time to time in my parts, but this was different. Not good…
The NY Times piece makes me a little teary. I feel like these guys are trying so hard to do the best they can. Especially the deaf guy and the curbside mechanic. Just call me a liberal softie, I guess.