Just saw this on David Gallagher’s site, lightningfield.com.
The second photo looks like the old public school-turned-condo at the corner of Vanderbilt and Sterling.
Source: Lightningfield.com
NYT Picks up the Mama Duke's Story
You heard it here first (thanks to sje for the tip), and thanks to NYT reporter Jennifer Bleyer, a soon-to-be Prospect Heights resident, for a great article!
” … Local residents took notice when Janice Combs, the mother of the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, opened Mama Duke in 2001, and when the restaurant suddenly closed, they took notice again. Rumors spread quickly on a Prospect Heights Web log, dailyheights.com, about why Mama Duke was no more …”
SterlingGuy Cracks Secret Cigar Stash at Yelison
SterlingGuy writes: “I was hankering for a cigar the other night and went to Yelison (small store next to Tom’s Diner, the corner of Washington and Sterling) to see what kind of trashy smoke I could get to go with a bottle of cheap rum. The guy handed me some thin cigarellos and my face must have betrayed my mild disgust and deep disappointment. So he immediately reached under the counter and came up with two nice fat cigars (I had a friend with me) from what looked like his own secret supply. They were cheap and not great, but at least they looked like real cigars and lasted longer than five minutes. Fat cigars and cheap rum — perfect for a warm night with friends!”
“I was surprised this guy did this, since he has never been very friendly, and was even less so after I tried my gringo Spanish on him. But when he dropped that stogie on the counter, my eyes lit up and he gave me a big nod and a smile.”
“Later that week, on one of those super-hot nights, I went to buy beer and he traded the warm bottles I had grabbed from the cooler for some Coronas he had stashed in his freezer. I like to think the two events are connected, like I passed the neighborhood cigar test.”
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IMAGE: rhodamine / Citynoise.org
Room with a (Rear) View
ana.log writes: I snapped some random pics on my way home from Soda Bar tonight. This was the oddest … a rearview mirror hung just outside the window of an apt. building on Prospect between Washington and Underhill. I can’t decide if it’s clever or paranoid….
Discussion (and larger image) here.
Cupcake
cupcake.
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Habana Outpost
Who’s been to Habana Outpost – New York’s “first solar-powered restaurant and market”?
The image is from a recent New York Times article … apparently somebody stole their bicycle-powered blender. (Thanks for the tip: Set Speed)
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Valid (and Not Valid) Reasons for Accosting Someone in the Street
Via D103.com, a South Slope blog.
Construction on St. Marks Ave. between Grand and Classon
As seen from ana.log’s bedroom window. See ana.log’s blog for a larger image.
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So Much New Stuff
But the message boards are down. Post something non-sequitur in the comments.
UPDATE: Boards are back up. Step carefully.
WARNING: "Vanderbilt Vestibule Pusher" Remains at Large
Alert! alice writes in the : “A half-hour or so ago, a man pushed in the door behind me as I entered my building [Vanderbilt btw Park and Sterling Pl.]. I promptly freaked and pushed him out as hard as I could, and he took off.”
“The police found him a few minutes later, but then they let him go (?) after taking his information. … be on the alert as you enter your building … He was an African-American man, in his 30s-40s, missing most of his teeth, wearing an oversized maroon t-shirt and jeans. Very skinny. I had seen him a second before when he was sitting on the stoop of the building next door to mine.”
“When I saw him before this happened, he was murmuring comments at all the women who walked by… I didn’t even register him as a threat because he was being so conspicuous … I don’t get why the police would just let him go. I’m fairly unnerved by this, as he knows where I lived and he seemed, let us say, unhappy with me.”
LATEST UPDATE: “I just called the 77th–the first officer I spoke to was puzzled over why they let him go; the 2nd one guessed they just gave him a summons for trespassing. Either way someone is supposed to call me back with the details, so I will let you know.”
LINK: Push-in on Vanderbilt Monday Afternoon []