Author Archives: Alexa11221

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Smackdab in the geographic center of the hood, on the dividing line between north and south. Bed Stuy from the inside out!

Pesticide Spraying in Bed-Stuy

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Alexa11221

This info is from the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene’s advisory email. I couldn’t find any additional info on the web site.
PESTICIDE SPRAYING – Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick and East Williamsburg
Thurs. Aug. 5 btw the hours of 8:15pm – 6am the following morning, weather
permitting
The NYC Health Dept. plans to spray pesticide Anvil 10+10 to reduce the
number [...]

Posted in Bed-Stuy, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Health, Sports and Fitness | 3 Comments

Encounters on Fulton

Posted on August 2, 2010 by Alexa11221

People always complain about Fulton Street, so I took some pics of a few things I like about it:
Awesome cheap skirts imported from who knows where.
Colorful striped shirts for male shoppers, too.
This brand-new building at 1365 Fulton (New York Ave) has gorgeous plantings on each balcony, coordinated with planters on the roof and at the [...]

Posted in Architecture, Bed-Stuy, Bedford Stuyvesant, Fashion, Gentrification, Shopping, The Sights & Sounds of Bed-Stuy | Tagged | 3 Comments

Play A Piano At Von King Park

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ June 21, 2010 9:00 am to July 5, 2010 9:00 am. ] Last week I tweeted about the free piano in a park participatory public art thing, “Play Me, I’m Yours” (here are the Times articles, if you missed them: Piano to the People! and Pianos as Public Art).

I went to check out the one in Von King Park:

[caption id="attachment_9238" align="alignnone" width="429" caption="Von King Park's public art [...]
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Rally & Remembrance for Chanel Petro-Nixon

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ June 19, 2010; 11:00 am to 4:30 pm. ] On Fathers Day, 2006, Chanel Petro-Nixon, a 16-year-old honor student at Boys & Girls High School in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, left her home to fill out a job application at Applebee’s Restaurant in Restoration Plaza on Fulton Street. She never made it to Applebee’s. Four days later, her body was found in a [...]

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FREE WINE Comedy Show at Le Sucre

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ May 20, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. June 3, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] LIVE in Bed-Stuy, it’s–Thursday Night? Join the inimitable Del Harrison and a rotating group of local comedians for an evening of stand-up and improv comedy at Le Sucre Coffee and Jazz Lounge on DeKalb Ave.

Every 1st and 3rd (and 5th) Thursday of the month, at 7:30 pm, Del and her crew present Del’s FREE WINE [...]

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What’s Up At Antidote Bike Shop?

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Alexa11221

The sleek, minimal, industrial-green signage of Antidote Bike Shop still stands out among the raucous storefronts that line Marcus Garvey Boulevard, but this past Saturday (4/24), its street frontage seemed to have been taken over by racks of merchandise from the neighboring West Indian shop.
Is Antidote closed? Did it ever really open?

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Street Scene April 2010

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ April 18, 2010; 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ]

Talk about urban farmsteads–I was walking down Lafayette Ave. behind a man and his toddler daughter when I heard the little girl exclaim, excitedly, “Chickens!” And sure enough, there is a coop full of clucking hens in a corner of the Hattie Carthen Community Garden. I’m hoping this means there will be fresh eggs for [...]

Posted in Community Events | 3 Comments

Blossoms and Brownstones

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Alexa11221

Spring on Greene Avenue. Wednesday only seemed like summer.

Posted in Bed-Stuy, Bedford Stuyvesant, Gardening, The Sights & Sounds of Bed-Stuy | 2 Comments

YA Authors Tonight at Brownstone Books

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Alexa11221

[ February 27, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Tonight at Brownstone Books, meet local Young Adult authors Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich (8th GRADE SUPERZERO,
for ages 10+) and Zetta Elliott (A WISH AFTER MIDNIGHT, for ages 13+).

They will be reading from and signing their books starting at 6 pm.

My 12-year-old son read 8th GRADE SUPERZERO and liked it!

I heard Zetta Elliott speak on WNYC and her [...]

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Lonely Planet Takes the A Train

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Alexa11221

“76-Second Travel Show” does Bed-Stuy!

Posted in Bed-Stuy, Bedford Stuyvesant, The Sights & Sounds of Bed-Stuy | Tagged , , | 5 Comments