Monday Links
Bye-Bye, Burg. Photo by gogo et chunk. Celebs and Brooklyn’s Fragile Celeb Eco-System [NY Times] Foreclosure Pickings Are Plentiful, but Not Easy [NY Times] Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess [NY Times] Stocks Soar Back Near Summer Highs [NY Times] Getting Barred From Public Housing [NY Times] Want a Bargain? Head to Flatbush….
Bye-Bye, Burg. Photo by gogo et chunk.
Celebs and Brooklyn’s Fragile Celeb Eco-System [NY Times]
Foreclosure Pickings Are Plentiful, but Not Easy [NY Times]
Six Fingers of Blame in the Mortgage Mess [NY Times]
Stocks Soar Back Near Summer Highs [NY Times]
Getting Barred From Public Housing [NY Times]
Want a Bargain? Head to Flatbush. [NY Times]
Trouble Keeps Building for Scarano [NY Post]
Ray Kelly Decries Anti-Semitic Attacks [NY Sun]
Colleges Look to Text Systems [NY Daily News]
Pols Blast Con Ed ‘Chutzpah’ [AM New York]
Video: Dondi Does Dumbo [Gowanus Lounge]
that’s what we get for living in such a beautiful place, 12:13.
if only everyone was so lucky.
Not a lot of A list celebrities live in Brooklyn, but they sure do like to film here. I live in Victorian Flatbush and it seems like once a week I trip over movie/TV/commercial crews as I am leaving my house for work in the morning. What is going on? It has gotten out of control over the last year. I used to love it when it happened less frequently, but now it is just kind of annoying to have your entire residential block taken over. My driveway has been blocked a number of times and equipment left on my lawn. Sorry – just had to vent after I was woken up at 5 AM last week by 25 trailors decending on my street with generators that sounded like helicopter engines. I would be perfectly content if celebrities stayed out of Brooklyn entirely.
oh but when they write about the celebs in manhattan, it isn’t so lame, 11:53…?
i’m not arguing that the piece was useless, because it was, but they take many news items from gawker referencing stupid shit on the island, and no one seems to complain.
The NY Times “ego-system” is the perfect example of what happens when you have a deadline and space to fill in a rapidly declining news outfit. I’m not even a Brooklynite, but I found that to be one of the most amateurish pieces of writing I’ve ever seen. The writer also seems to have taken seriously those Gawker interviews in Boerum Hill, and used those as the launching point for the whole piece. Lame, lame, lame.
i saw michelle williams on 5th ave in the slope about 2 weeks ago.
maybe she’s stickin around?
like her more than heath anyway.
i also sawy ryan reynolds at atlantic antic yesterday.
good crowd there, btw.
And actually, I get more of a kick spotting smart/cool “celebs” like Rob Cordry from the Daily Show on Smith Street with his baby than I do spotting anybody of US Magazine wattage.
The Style section has been sucking hard for a while, now, and this turd of a story is a great example. “Brooklyn’s fragile celeb ecosystem,” my ass. Brooklyn’s chic-ness ain’t going anywhere just because of Heath; people continue streaming into the borough by the thousands. Meanwhile, for many of us, Brooklyn is *preferable* to Manhattan. I chose to move here after 5 years in Chelsea and West Vill so I could have a garden, a fireplace, and a barbecue. Oh, and a little (relative) peace and quiet. I have no interest in living on the island again.
hear, hear…
douglas rushkoff continues to be a moron…even after he’s left park slope.