Thursday Links
Worker in Fall Recalls Panic [NY Times] Eight Charged for Theft: $22m in Wireless Devices [WSJ] Brooklyn Library Restricts Access to Book [Newsday] Habitat for Humanity in Brooklyn [NY Daily News] 3.5 Years for DWI Killer [NY Post] Avant-Garde Agriculture, Architecture in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle] Organ Trafficking Thriving in Boroughs? [Brooklyn Eagle] Brooklyn Bridge Park…
Worker in Fall Recalls Panic [NY Times]
Eight Charged for Theft: $22m in Wireless Devices [WSJ]
Brooklyn Library Restricts Access to Book [Newsday]
Habitat for Humanity in Brooklyn [NY Daily News]
3.5 Years for DWI Killer [NY Post]
Avant-Garde Agriculture, Architecture in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Eagle]
Organ Trafficking Thriving in Boroughs? [Brooklyn Eagle]
Brooklyn Bridge Park Is Being Built [Brooklyn Paper]
Neil Diamond’s Debt to Brooklyn Dodgers [Spinner]
Al Pacino’s Sheepshead Movie Shoot [Sheapshead Bites]
Photo by mikeion, Brownstoner Flickr pool
Agree with ENY, I think Crown Heights is a fabulous neighbourhood. Can someone point me to the thread in question?
I came late in the day and posted, probably after everyone had gone home. But I was furious. He could have been a man about it and retracted or admitted to poor writing. But guess not.
The Crown Heights thread WAS garbage. It was nothing less than insulting to the folks who live in the neighborhood (like me). The post suggests the neighborhood was a barren wasteland until Tavern on Dean came along to bring poor, misguided Crown Heights “up to its standards,” whatever the hell that means.
Crown Heights has museums (Jewish Children’s Museum, Brooklyn Chidren’s Museum), parks (Lincoln Terrace Park, Brower Park), a terrific public boulevard in Eastern Parkway, tremendous ethnic cuisine, and it annually hosts the city’s largest and most colorful parade, the West Indian Day Carnival. The neighborhood is most definitely thriving and is full of great people, but you wouldn’t ever dream that from the “jscheff”‘s ignorant and misinformed post.
hate to say it, but 3.5 years is more than most dwi killers get. He probably got that much cuz of his history.
I agree with snappy- 3.5 years is ridiculous. And that’s true for any DWI diver who causes an accident. Why do we give them a pass? And in any case- what does this particular story have to do with Brooklyn?
I almost never agree with What but on the Crown Heights thread he was spot on. Still, I don’t know that I would actually label jscheff a racist however. But i did call him out on the story because it was obnoxious, condescending, ignorant, inaccurate and just plain stupid. Of course racists possess all those qualities as well, but while not saying jscheff has jumped the R line, I do have to wonder how much he actually bothered to learn about Crown Heights before he wrote that post. And the answer- in a nutshell- nothing.
No Biff, I just wish Bjorkypants was my loony next door neighbor.
Ditto, do you live in BH? For some reason I can’t recall what neighbourhood you’re in.
It would be great to finally meet you. Try to make it out. Even Snark surprised us by showing up at one of the gatherings.
DIBS – as much as I’d love to, I wouldn’t get very far before my wife brained me. Kens thanks for the info, I may look in.
Ditto, we’re getting together at Pete’s Candy Store.
http://www.petescandystore.com/
From 6:30 p.m. till whenever the last PLUSA splits which will prolly be past midnight.