Greenpoint
Lorven Pharmacy
Culture on the Cheap
New York Shitty Day Starter: L Train Selections
From the Manhattan bound platform at Lorimer Street.
Miss Heather
East Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Buggin’
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Street Art, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
From Lorimer Street.
Miss Heather
Daily Bloomblight: Broken Windows
Filed under: 11206, Bloomblight, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
What had once started out as a rather ambitious (if by East Williamsburg standards) condominium building at 390 Lorimer Street appears to have fallen on hard times.
Very hard times. Among the niceties to be found here (and I do encourage each and every one of you to check this place out) are:
1. an incinerated cushion of some kind
2. a television set with “added value”
3. an open invitation for squatters
As a matter of fact, 390 Lorimer already has some residents. Pigeons have nested in this duct work. I would hazard to guess this may very well the most expensive aviary in New York City history. And to think some people have the temerity to think our fair Mayor doesn’t care about nature— who needs 1,000,000 trees when our feathered friends can have a luxury condo? Only the best for north Brooklyn!
I could go on and on about quality of life issues and how this administration has failed its constituents. I won’t. Instead I’ll leave you with this epitaph which someone has seen fit to thoughtfully inscribe on this failed piece of real estate speculation.
Indeed.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Starter: Nothing’s Sacred
Inasmuch as I hate to admit it there is a great deal of veracity to be found in the above cynic’s comment. Everything is for sale in our fair city. Whether one wants to sell or not is immaterial. It’s simply of matter of money, political influence and legal chicanery. We’re the easiest city money can buy.
There are many— religious types mostly— who consider New York City to be the whore of Babylon. They may very well be correct. Whores are capitalists in the purest sense. They do it for the money. New Yorkers do it for the money. Our god is the dollar and time is money.
What has come to pass at Atlantic Yards has reduced our fair city from being a whore to a slut. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free— or better yet at tax payer’s expense?
Miss Heather
P.S.: This post goes out to Marty Markowitz who said and I quote (from Curbed’s gritty firsthand account of this farce):
Sorry about the noise outside. Obviously disgruntled Knicks fans.
Tool.
TONIGHT: Pigeon Life
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
If you’re looking for something to do tonight, look no further. Thanks to the miracle that is the New York Shitty inbox I’ve found it. Or would it have found me? In any case it is called “Pigeon Life” and it will come to pass at Pete’s Candy Store. Here’s the 411 per their press release:
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT???
PIGEON LIFE!
An Investigation in to a Filthy Bird Slum w/Jamie Hook
Monday, March 8, 2010, 7:30pm
Lorimer Street between Meserole and Calyer is home to a bona-fide pigeon slum. Filthy birds congregate there in curious density, forsaking adjacent inviting areas to crowd in a building-side favela of avian vice and depravity. Most mysteriously, they are supported in their wayward lifestyle by some unseen neighborhood abettor, who reliably finds the most fetid offal form the local garbage bins to sustain (or poison?) these flying rodents: rotten vegetables, maggoty meat, and moldy bread are just a few of the regular leavings that join the lice-encrusted feathers and fecal whitewash littering the sidewalk. Who is the filthy enabler, and why do they do it? Why does the Rite Aid not stop them? What is the neighborhood consensus on this menace? Join Jamie Hook for a hard-hitting Powerpoint investigation.
NOTE: As March 8 is the presenter’s birthday, refreshments will be served!!
JAMIE HOOK is the curator of Open City Dialogue. He has previously lectured on Barry White and Santa Claus–both of whom really get him going. His theatre work includes the coast-to-coast fringe smash Point Break Live! His film work includes August Wilson’s only screen role in The Naked Proof. His writing has appeared in Vogue, Harpers and The Village Voice.
So there have you. If any of you, dear readers, check this out I expect a review in my inbox or comments by tomorrow morning.
PIGEON LIFE!
Monday, March 8, 2010 starting at 7:30 p.m.
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Miss Heather
Image Credits: Pete’s Candy Store
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