Myrtle Shuffle

News of the hood

• Brooklyn Folks: We Need To Talk… | Kitty Bradshaw
  In any event this was the most interesting time I’ve had at Moe’s bar in Fort Greene. Sometimes I go there after the movie at Habana Outpost. Usually I tell people it’s boring but after this past Sunday I gained a little more respect for it. It
• The Brooklyn Paper: Youth vote? That’s a laugh
  The good news is that Powell isn’t the only candidate who knows his way around the Interweb. The bad news is that the 74-year-old Towns hasn’t exactly figure out how to use the ‘Net to court voters who are nearly six decades younger than he.
• Daily Kos: No Sleep Till Brooklyn - Ed Towns Expenditures (NY10)
  Some of his transgressions as a Democrat in a +41 D district are working against Net Neutrality and being to the right of his district on other votes like the Bankruptcy Reform Bill.
• Daily Kos: Urban Youth Initiative - First Stop Brooklyn
  These Democrats are changing the political paradigm in central Brooklyn.
• Catsimatidis backlash begins… « The Real Fort Greene
  why deprive the local residents of services for YEARS if you aren’t even sure if the project can be completed?
• abistro - Fort Greene, Brooklyn « Jeffrey Tastes
  Great food, cozy (small) and clean restaurant. What a glorious date place to show her you know all the amazing, little-known local spots. Seriously, if you take a date here, he or she will melt.
• Burglary Row in Fort Greene
  A repeat burglar — or a team of crooks — has tormented DeKalb Avenue restaurants, seemingly striking at will and with precision over the last two months.
• Is the Brooklyn Flea in trouble? « The Real Fort Greene
  For the record I’m not a big fan of it but that is primarily due to it’s location. Brooklyn could use a good flea market but put it somewhere that needs the foot traffic. I’m sure the Navy Yard or Columbia Street in Red Hook would be happy to have i
• Is the Brooklyn Flea in Danger? -- Daily Intel -- New York News Blog -- New York Magazine
  although he was unclear about exactly what the problem was, it was pretty clear the tussle has something to do with that old bogeyman, gentrification.
• metro: Supermarket battle causes deeper issues to surface
  It wasn’t that long ago, recalled Kevin Powell, that Myrtle was known as “Murder Avenue,”... “All of a sudden, because we’re close to Manhattan, folks want to bring some money into the community... Don’t displace us. We have a right to be here