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February 19, 2009

Thursday Blogwrap

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Wash n Dry. Photo by donkey.attack from the Brownstoner Flickr Pool.
Gowanus Holiday Inn Now Blue [GL]
The Chinese Mexican Phenomenon [Bushwick BK]
South Brooklyn: Land of Displaced Book Stores [Lost City]
Coney Island Now Has A New "Talking Historian" [KINETIC CARNIVAL]
Grammar Gods Save Brooklyn's Temple Bar Building [McBrooklyn]




Posted by TCulver at 4:30 PM | Comments (5)
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Hey, is that Adrian Grenier on his way to do his hours at the Co-op?

Posted by: guestula at February 19, 2009 4:35 PM

hahahahah.

that's a cool looking building though!

*r*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at February 19, 2009 4:51 PM

Since 1991 I've read a dozen or so reviews of Chinese-Mex "Fresco Tortillas"-type restaurants. They always dwell on the speed (fast) and the price (cheap) of the food. But have you noticed they never have anything good to say about the quality?

That's because Chinese-Mex food sucks.

Cuban-Chinese food is great. So is Chinese-Peruvian. In this city, I bet there are probably a bunch of excellent Mexican restaurants run by Chinese people. But Mr. Zheng's assembly-line model turns out fast, cheap crap, just like the fast, cheap crappy American-Chinese restaurants it's based on.

Yes, it's funny to see a Mexican restaurant full of Chinese people, but you might at least tell us that the food sucks.

Or you can take the subway to the corner of Fulton and Gold in Manhattan and eat some very decent Turkish food made by Mexicans. Mmm, falafel burritos.

Posted by: Capn Transit at February 19, 2009 10:33 PM

My first Brooklyn apartment (1970--72)was around the corner from the laundromat in the photograph. It looked just as seedy in 1970.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at February 20, 2009 1:04 AM

Ah yes the old laundromat... I also can remember lugging the wash, and my 3 yr. old son over there back in the mid-70's.

I lived on 12th St tween' 8th and PPW at the time.

Posted by: bren at February 20, 2009 10:01 AM

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