(via bluesweaterfilms)
March 5, 2010
March 1, 2010
caro:
What this program needs, obviously, is a cast member named Ivan “The Agitator” Krucoff.
*cough*
February 17, 2010
“This artist’s rendering provided by the New York City Economic Development Corporation shows a view of the proposed new Luna Park in the Brooklyn’s Coney Island neighborhood. After years of hand-wringing over the future of Coney Island, Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010, that 19 new amusement park rides would open by the summer of 2010, with two additional roller coasters, a human slingshot and go-carts to open by the summer of 2011. (AP Photo/NYC Economic Development Corp.)”
I grew up in Coney Island and welcome the changes.. that they’ve been talking about for a while now, though it seems they may be getting a bit more serious with the plans.
February 16, 2010
January 24, 2010
January 21, 2010
It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Association
In a small storefront in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brighton Beach, a tiny television is tuned to ‘Judge Judy.’ The no-nonsense judge yells at the plaintiff from behind her desk in typical stern fashion, “She has to get a job! She’s LAZY!”
Behind a similarly large wooden desk—with the addition of a “herd” of decorative elephant figurines—sits Pat Singer, the founder and director of the Brighton Beach Neighborhood Association.
“She’s my idol,” Singer said of Judge Judy. “I like how she’s tough. I hate the court shows where they’re talking back to the judges.”
Pat Singer is an equally tough woman in a velour tracksuit, with short, fiery orange hair and shocking blue eye shadow. She started the BNA in 1977, when the neighborhood was, as she puts it, “going down the tubes.”
“There were problems with drugs, problems with prostitution,” Singer explained. So, after the twelfth mugging on her block, she gathered hundreds of residents to march in protest. “We circled, like covered wagons, and held traffic for four hours,” she said. “And being a drama queen, I played ‘Exodus’ over the loudspeakers.”
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe on Coney Island
My dad got her book today. He’s gonna send it to me next week. I love everything about it.
January 17, 2010
January 6, 2010
I snapped this last July while watching Broken Social Scene at Coney Island. This is one of my favorite pictures, even though I don’t have a definite reason why.
