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November 3, 2009

Tuesday Links

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Voices From the Boroughs: Bay Ridge [NY Times]
Photo: Bloomberg Bakes at Cakeman Raven [NY Times]
Tish James' Republican Opponent for Council [NY Times]
Beat-trial defense blames Orthodox rivals [NY Post]
Housing honcho beats corruption rap [NY Post]
Crown Heights Woman Monitors Leaves [NY Daily News]
Fixers Collective Meets Weekly in Gowanus [NY Daily News]
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Posted by Brownstoner at 8:32 AM | Comments (11)
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Leave it to the permanently ignorant about their own city to so fittingly call the piece "Voices from the Boroughs." They've actually got their heads so far up their asses that the "newspaper of record" seemed to forget that Manhattan IS in fact A BOROUGH and NOT MT. OLYMPUS as they had previously assumed.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at November 3, 2009 8:50 AM

New York Times btw.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at November 3, 2009 8:51 AM

Joe, as much as I love my new home in Brooklyn, Manhattan is still the Center of the Universe, without which Brooklyn would not exist in its current state.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at November 3, 2009 8:56 AM

Joe, as much as I love my new home in Brooklyn, Manhattan is still the Center of the Universe, without which Brooklyn would not exist in its current state.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at November 3, 2009 8:56 AM

Yeah but I didn't say "Brooklyn is better" I said "manhattan is a borough." Many people, some of whom have lived in Manhattan for years do not know/believe that Manhattan is a borough. Obviously Manhattan is where most Brooklynites make their living but it is a borough and a county, not a "city" as it was was before it gobbled up the other boroughs.

Posted by: Joe from Brooklyn at November 3, 2009 9:23 AM

Cakeman Raven (featured in piece on Bloomberg baking a cake) needs to focus less on his tireless, narcissistic, celebrity-obsessed self-promotion and more on running a business. I love his cake, got my wedding cake there, but that place is so badly run it's a joke. Recently a friend of mine spent a month simply trying to place an order for a cake. It's her favorite cake, she wanted it for her birthday, and they literally would not take her order. It was Kafkaesque. You can't actually talk to anybody when you place an order, you call up and are told to leave a message and somebody will call you back. Only nobody does. She did that a few times then went there in person. She left her order with a guy who promised to personally bring the order to the place where the cakes are baked in another location. Then when my friend called to follow up closer to her birthday it turned out the guy never did that and the order was never placed. Is Cakeman Raven really so successful one has to beg him to take some money? Somehow I doubt it; I read last year some former employees sued him for not paying salary or overtime or something.

Posted by: traditionalmod at November 3, 2009 9:28 AM

Anyone know why Tish James was listed only on the Democratic line, not Working Party? I thought she was first elected as Working Party? Thompson, De Blasio, Liu, Hynes, were all listed on both.

Posted by: qwerty at November 3, 2009 9:59 AM

I don't think Tish wants the WFP endorsement, considering their support of Atlantic Yards and their relationship to ACORN. If not for their AY support I would vote for their candidates but purely because of that I'm not, including Bill Thompson and Bill DiBlasio. I know I will continue my only once broken (Obama) string of never voting for a winning candidate but isn't that part of what it's about? This is the only time I may actually have to resort to write-ins however as all the candidates pretty much disgust me in one way or another.

Posted by: babs at November 3, 2009 10:32 AM

Actually, I may only have to write-in for City Council (40th district). I think the Green Party has people for all the others.

Posted by: babs at November 3, 2009 10:37 AM

Ah. Thanks babs. I didn't realize WFP was supporting Atlantic Yards.

Posted by: qwerty at November 3, 2009 10:56 AM

I think it's because of the ACORN connection and the CBA. I haven't bothered to check to see if FCR has actually funded the WFP directly.

Posted by: babs at November 3, 2009 12:03 PM

If anyone wants cakes better than Cakeman Raven's, at better prices, I have someone for you. Her prices and her cakes, including her Red Velvet cakes, are amazing. She is also an excellent caterer, and a lovely person. She's located in Canarsie, but it's worth the trip, and delivery arrangements could possibly be made, especially for a large order.

Lucy's Cakes and Catering
1033 East 92nd St.
Brooklyn
718-493-9198

Tell her the folks at the Crown Heights North Association sent you.

Posted by: Montrose Morris at November 3, 2009 12:16 PM

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