Wednesday lunchtime linkage
Kanye brought his act to Barclays, typical Kanye stuff happened [HuffPo] Here's a good history of Ebbets Field [reddit] Bike…
Category: News
The 5 Pointz whitewash: One of the more depressing gestures of gentrification seen in New York City
Early Tuesday morning while most of us were sleeping, 5 Pointz, the vibrant Long Island City graffiti temple that welcomed…
Tuesday lunchtime linkage
Ambassador Markowitz? Really? [DailyNews] 5Pointz graffiti gone overnight; this is not a Banksy stunt [NYPost] Brooklyn diver dies trying to set world…
Take a tour through the doomed Fulton Mall with this interactive video
As we're learning with the cowardly whitewashing of 5 Pointz in the middle of the night, nothing in New York…
High school teachers: Get a classroom MakerBot for $100
When President Obama came here last month, he didn't show up just to land in Prospect Park and eat Junior's.…
Monday lunchtime linkage
The Daily News shows (a cardboard) Ray Kelly Harlem [Daily News] New York's real mayors [New York Times] Someone still loves…
Brooklyn comedian live-tweets couple breaking up on his roof
What did you do with your weekend? Take a leisurely hike? Go grocery shopping? Watch football for two days and…
The Week in Broketown, 11/11 – 11/15
Like us in website form? Then you’ll love us on Facebook, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram and Pinterest -We took a trip to the reservoir -3rd Ward's…
WNYC median income map shows which neighborhoods have gotten rich lately
Money is pouring in to New York, like so many bottles of vodka into the insatiable gut of Rob Ford.…
Chilling out at the McCarren Park ice skating rink opening
On this exceptionally warm and sunny mid-November day, NYC Parks and the nonprofit Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA)…