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Friday Upper- and Outer-Borough Links

February 12, 2010 in Odds and Ends, Out and About by Bryan | 1 comment

Check this out! It’s like half a dozen tweets all sent at once!

Kevin Walsh visits Poe Place in the Bronx. [Forgotten NY]

Titanic House leaves LIC. [liQcity]

The repopulation of Downtown Brooklyn [Brownstoner]

Tomorrow: Second Saturday in Staten Island. [Forgotten Borough]

Bald Eagles in Harlem! [Harlem Hybrid]

I missed this first one when it was new, but here’s a tour of prisons in all 5 boroughs. Follow it up with a tour of public restrooms. I’d like to dedicate the first link to Bartleby the Scrivener and the second to anyone who’s ever been cited for public urination. [Untapped New York]

Williamsburg public phone photo by Michelle Young for Untapped New York.

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Friday Upper- and Outer-borough Blogging

February 5, 2010 in Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About by Bryan | No comments

Things happening on the Web or IRT outside my neighborhood.

The Jane Jacobs of Gowanus [Found in Brooklyn]

The passing of a Harlem-born Tuskegee Airman [Harlem Bespoke]

Feeling hopeful at Staten Island’s Snug Harbor Cultural Center [snug-harbor.org]

Following Idiotarod 2010 from BK to Queens [Gothamist]

Coming-of-age clichés: Bronx edition [NYTimes]

Photo credit: An ephemeral scene on the Wmsburg Bridge, via Restless

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Friday Upper- and Outer-Borough Blogging

January 22, 2010 in Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Out and About by Bryan | No comments

East River Plaza’s Costco lays off 160 workers; apparently NYers don’t have room to buy in bulk [Harlem Bespoke]

Benefit TONIGHT for Tuli Kupferberg at St. Ann’s, featuring Flutterbox,  John Zorn, Lenny Pickett, Christine Ohlman, Sonic Youth, Lou Reed, John Kruth, Peter Stampfel and Tuli’s fellow Fug, Ed Sanders [Now I've Heard Everything]

Breaking down NYC pizza by borough/neighborhood: The Astoria Slice, pictured above [Newtown Pentacle]

Bronx-based William S. Burroughs look-a-like robbing shops in the Village [New York Times, via BoogieDowner]

A guide to Staten Island’s Hills: Look to them! [Ape Shall Not Kill Ape]

Astoria Slice photo by Mitch Waxman

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