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This post is not about Ron Paul.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it is because he‘s too red state. No, this post is about Hillary and Obama. Why Hillary and Obama you ask? Well ‘h’ is before ‘o’ in the alphabet. But seriously folks, the immediate area around everyone’s favorite yuppie spaceship is polling in favor of Obama. Cafe Naico apparently […]

There is still time to choose.

In this week’s iteration of New York magazine, we get a look at the crime in 2007 and how it has changed since the early nineties. And yes, they point out that Bedford-Stuyvesant is one of the places where crime is moving contrary to the city-wide trend. But! But, it’s not the worst Brooklyn has […]

Open 24 hours*

I would like to share some information which may potentially be useful to people living in this neighborhood in the future. In most places I have been, if a business claims to be open 24 hours, it means that you can transact business at any time, day or night. Often in the wee hours of […]

An interesting encounter

In the middle of my weekend ritual walking down Myrtle Ave away from my yuppie spaceship I ran into two gentlemen walking the opposite direction. One decided to address me, and here’s what happened next. Gentleman 1: Yo Me: What’s up? Gentleman 1(indignantly): What’s up? Me(thinking he might have been talking to someone behind me): […]

Identity

In a comment Choco Man says: You need to tell us more about yourself. What’s your bio? (Did I hear you mention Texas? Is that where you’re from?) Tell us more… A few days later, bed-stuy banana had this to say about anonymity: My last post has been nastily commented on twice by ‘anonymous.’ I […]

I am a racist.

I’m sorry that I haven’t mentioned this earlier, as I had planned on making such a post at some point, but I obviously took too long. The musical Avenue Q has a song which conclusively shows that I am a racist. The following lines in particular: Everyone’s a little bit racist Sometimes. Doesn’t mean we […]

Not the kind of thing you want to read here

So … Bed-Stuy just got a little sketchier for us at the MYNT. Yesterday, I was just chillin’ eating some apple jacks and assembling my thoughts and some furniture when I heard something at my door. I went to check it out through the peep hole and some seemingly smashed out drunken dude was just […]

Final thoughts on gentrification

I’ve learned a lot while trying to understand gentrification and what it means for me, the MYNT and Bed-Stuy. Here is a compilation of my basic thoughts on the subject. It’s big, not all bad and not totally unstoppable. I think of it less as a forest fire and more of a purification process (like […]

Restart

After being mentioned on Bed-Stuy Blog as one of the top eight excellent blogs by The Changeling I said to myself, “Self, you’ve really screwed the pooch in November.” After a compliment like that, I can’t just let this blog end up like a nice mini-muffin that falls under the couch, slowly getting staler and […]

A whole lot of fail

So … the blogscussion didn’t turn out like I had expected =) In any case, I have another question to ponder: is the resistance to gentrification in Bed-Stuy based on race? It’s certainly part of it, but how large a part? Check out the comments in this review of Tiny Cup. I visited there this […]