June 24, 2008

The Coney Island Mermaid Parade

All I knew about Coney Island before I moved to New York City is that it used to be “the” vacation spot for New Yorkers in the 1920′s. Since those glory days the neighborhood has gone through a long period of decline.

After hanging out Saturday all day on the southern most part of Brooklyn I realized that there is a lot more to Coeny Island then meets the eye. It is one of the most interesting, off the tourist map areas that I have experienced yet in NYC. Saturday was the Mermaid Parade (my friends are pictured above) . It was by far the wildest scene that I have experienced since moving up here.

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June 10, 2008

101 Degrees in the Big Apple with NO AC

Oh my!  We all saw it coming. The Nuge, Wendy, and I have been talking about this for months. How could we have procrastinated like this? How could we have been so incredibly lazy? How could we have possibly not bought an air conditioner before this heatwave rolled in? How have we survived the last two days in which temperatures soared over 100 degrees in NYC?  I woke up this morning a hot, sweaty mess.

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June 4, 2008

A Brooklyn Highschool and Sean Bell

Below is the first guest post of my friend Wendy Brown. Wendy teaches the 9th grade at a Brooklyn high school–her classes are ethnically and economically diverse. However, the vast majority of her students fall into the economic category society would describe as “working poor.”

In New York–as well as nationwide–the Sean Bell case is major news. The 3 police officers that shot Sean Bell–a 23 year old, unarmed African American man– to death a few hours before his wedding day were acquitted a few weeks back. In response, community activists–including Al Sharpton–  staged sit ins to block the major entries and exits to Manhattan. Coverage of these events have been impossible to dodge in NYC. It has been the lead story on the TV news and on the front page of every paper. Wendy wrote this a few weeks back. I apologize in the delay in posting it.

There are some serious pieces of news occurring in New York City. I am very pleased that Wendy likes to write about them. : )

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