Tuesday Blogwrap
Ditmas Park. Photo by rhodamine. Flatbush Food Co-op Triples in Size, Celebrates New Store [Green Brooklyn] The Most Loathsome Woman in Brooklyn? [GL] No More Anti-Gentrification Messages? [Curbed] ‘Endangered’ LES? What’s New, Some Ask [City Room] The Media Finally “Gets” Bloomberg [Lost City] Protect Your Downspouts [Hawthorne Street]
Ditmas Park. Photo by rhodamine.
Flatbush Food Co-op Triples in Size, Celebrates New Store [Green Brooklyn]
The Most Loathsome Woman in Brooklyn? [GL]
No More Anti-Gentrification Messages? [Curbed]
‘Endangered’ LES? What’s New, Some Ask [City Room]
The Media Finally “Gets” Bloomberg [Lost City]
Protect Your Downspouts [Hawthorne Street]
cmu, that was priceless! But what about the inclusion of the barbershop next door ominously symbolizing the increased haircuts taken by brokerage and investment banking firms? And speaking of strollers, how clever to capture the human-shaped colored circles on the left door pushing the Bugaboo-shaped stroller on the right door indicating the omnipresence of stroller moms.
Actually, 4:48, not pointless at all.
A veritable cornucopia of artistic tropes are present, including the use of contrasting color circles to create tension. A damning statement on the desperate economy requiring companies to discount their services to keep afloat. And note the witty use of the snail-mail cart as a counterpoint to the instant gratification of the cell-phone.
A hit against Park Slope Moms as well…with the stroller-look-alike blocking the sidewalk.
According to the NY Daily News, the murderer should have been in jail for violating his parole when he got caught following a robbery last year. Instead he was left out on the streets and killed poor Mrs. Woo.
NYC’s criminal justice system is completely F’d up at every juncture.
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/05/20/2008-05-20_dry_cleaner_slay_suspect_tied_to_theft.html
“The parolee charged with strangling a beloved Brooklyn dry cleaner was out on bail for a robbery just blocks from his latest victim.
Cops said Jamal Winter, 22, was on parole after serving a five-year stint for robbery in Dutchess County, when he put a gun to the head of an auto repair shop owner on 16th St. in Park Slope on May 18, 2007.
Officials never charged him with a parole violation for the 16th St. robbery and a judge set $10,000 bail.
Cops said Winter robbed and murdered Kyong-Sook Woo last Thursday night in her dry cleaning store. He was arrested and charged Sunday.
No one wanted to own up Monday to just why Winter was still walking the streets.”
By 8 o’clock, Felicia should have been on the train to get to her demeaning, useless job by 9. Bitter little tween she is.
odds are the incident didn’t even happen, or it was greatly exaggerated in the telling.
10th Avenue is in Windsor Terrace. This place is almost 15 blocks south/southeast of prime Park Slope.
I am no fan of the entitled attitude I see on the part of certain stroller parents in Park Slope but the original blog-post is ridiculously unfair – this isn’t Park Slope. This is Windsor Terrace. This is a rude act by a single rude person in a completely different neighborhood. Riding the coattails of this family and neighborhood tragedy to hook into the Slope-stroller-hate zeitgeist is disgusting. A woman died in a violent way. That you had yet ANOTHER! ANNOYING! RUN-IN! with the pram nazis is so beside the point it’s mindblowing.
Oh, and did you say anything to this horrible person? Anything along the lines of “Please have some respect for the dead?” Oh, no. I see. You BLOGGED about it instead. That’ll show ‘er.
Oops, make that “…don’t typically venture TOO far from home”…
I don’t think the poster intentionally was trying to make a “big deal” about the gender – I think if it was a man, that would have been stated too. However, like 5:44, I don’t understand the assumed connection to Park Slope and agree people don’t typically venture to far from home in places where dry cleaners are prevalent.
5:38, that’s a very honest post.
Here’s a thought about “the most loathsome woman” crap.
First of all…who lives in Park Slope and does their dry cleaning in Windsor Terrace.
Most people I know go to a dry cleaner within 2-3 blocks of their house.
Any reason this blogger ASSumes said woman lives in Park Slope?
Cause that would be a pretty moronic assumption.