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October 22, 2007
Monday Blogwrap
Carroll Gardens. Photo by RollerOutfit Fotos
Sign Up For a Screening of The Kite Runner in Bed-Stuy [Bed Stuy Blog]
Toasted Car Livens South Williamsburg Streetscape [Curbed]
"Brooklyn Nets"? Team name questions remain [AY Report]
Construction Site Du Jour: 80 Metropolitan [Gowanus Lounge]
Speakeasy Opens TONIGHT! [Clinton Hill Blog]
Memories of Seventh Avenue [OTBKB]
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I can't stand that OTBKB chick. Her blog is the reason the blogosphere sucks. Mediocrity at its best.
Posted by: guest at October 22, 2007 6:41 PM
Howzabout calling the team the Brooklyn Rats?
Posted by: guest at October 22, 2007 7:23 PM
Why limit the memories to the '70's/'80's - why not 7th Ave. in the '50s's...it just seems like a totally irrelevant discussion. Brooklyn has always traded on nostalgia and I'd like to think we are moving beyond it - the fact is that most people who grew up in Brooklyn couldn't get out of here fast enough creating all the recent real estate opportunities for newcomers.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 8:37 AM
Check out Pete Hamill if you would like a 50's perspective of Brooklyn,in particular Park Slope and adjacent neighborhoods.
I thoroughly enjoyed OTBKB's "Memories of Seventh Avenue"... fun remembering Al's Toyland, the Old Purity diner, etc... lots of good memories of good people and good times.
Your facts are a bit skewed 8:37 AM... there were many of us who were in the first wave over the bridge from the LES, etc. back in the early 60's 70's and 80's, and there are many generations of families who have lived and still live in Brooklyn.
It's as it should be that there are real estate opportunities for newcomers in Brooklyn... that's how my husband and I aquired our co-op in 1983...
The newest arrivals will soon have their own memories if they stay through the economic downturns that occur cyclically in NYC.
Cheer up.
Posted by: bren at October 23, 2007 11:21 AM
Yes, Pete Hamill got out of here as soon as he could...I'm been in PS since 1989 so no need to puff your chest...just making an observation BREN.
Posted by: guest at October 23, 2007 2:02 PM
No puffing of the chest going on here 2:02PM... I have been in Park Slope since 1975, should I be "puffing" my chest? :)
Lighten up GUEST.
Posted by: bren at October 23, 2007 4:22 PM
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