brooklyn

Brooklyn is the largest of the five boroughs of New York City, and is situated across the East River from Manhattan. Settled by the Dutch in the 17th century, and named for the Dutch town Breuckelen ("Broken Woods"), Brooklyn was an independent city until amalgamation with New York in 1898.

Brooklyn has always had a special character distinct from New York. It is known for its ethnic neighborhoods, its vibrant art scene, and the blocks of Victorian brownstone houses and churches. Brooklyn Heights was home to many literary people such as Thomas Wolfe and Walt Whitman, who captured their own particular Brooklyns in prose and poetry, just as people continue to do today.

There is a vibrant Brooklyn blog community. Some blogs focus on life in Brooklyn today and on all the facets of its present. There are also blogs specific to particular Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Fort Greene, Gowanus and Williamsburg. Still other blogs explore Brooklyn's rich past. There are as many Brooklyn places to visit online as there are real corners of this fascinating place.

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• in Entertainment
  A Dark Detective Story: Hurt Machine by Reed Farrel Coleman
  PI Moe Prager lies his way to the truth in “Hurt Machine” by Reed Farrel Coleman.
  by missbobetier / on Dec 7, 2011
• in Music
  KidTunes: History Rocks with The Deedle Deedle Dees and Strange Dees, Indeed
  Ya’ know how many of my history teachers were this cool? None!, that’s how many.
  by missbobetier / on Nov 7, 2011
• in Film
  The Human Experience Is Humbling
  Ever wonder what it’s all about it, why you’re here, who you are, or how you fit in?
  by missbobetier / on Mar 27, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “brooklyn”

 

• New York Shitty Day Starter: I Spy

  
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  From Division Place. [IMG: http://www.newyorkshitty.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Ispy.jpg]
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• We Were Promised Jetpacks’s concert in Brooklyn, NY – presale code

  
  Ticketmaster Presale Passwords by WiseGuy — Authority: 141
  WiseGuys has the We Were Promised Jetpacks presale passcode!! During this pre-sale you’ll have the chance to buy sweet seats before they go on sale! This could very well be your one chance ever to see We Were Promised Jetpacks live in Brooklyn!! Here are the We Were Promised Jetpacks concert details: We Were ...
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• Baluchis Extends Its Indian Empire Into Brooklyn Heights

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  Brooklyn Heights is soon to have its very own Baluchis Indian restaurant , on the north end of Henry Street near Cranberry Street. The spot, which will be ready "soon," according to the owner, can be seen to the right of Cranberrys, above. This will bring to three the number of Indian restaurants in Brooklyn ...
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• Portugal. the Man, The Lonely Forest’s concert in Brooklyn, NY – presale code

  
  Ticketmaster Presale Passwords by WiseGuy — Authority: 141
  The Portugal. the Man, The Lonely Forest presale code has just been posted! Everybody with this presale info will have a fantastic opportunity to acquire great seats before they go on sale! If you don’t purchase your tickets to Portugal. the Man, The Lonely Forest’s show in Brooklyn, NY during the presale you ...
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• Gowanus Whole Foods Decision Delayed for a Month

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  Chairwoman Meenakchi Srinivasan and the rest of the NYC Board of Standards and Appeals put off making a find decision at yesterdays hearing on the Whole Foods Gowanus variance. Theyll make a decision on February 28th. Whole Foods Market is proposing to build a mega-market in a manufacturing district on the Gowanus ...
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• While Were On the Subject of Portland, and More Brooklyn Briefs

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  - Venn Diagram: Portland Vs. Brooklyn. The Frisky - Just like Portland: A free lecture on cooking bears, beaver and moose, in Brooklyn. Featuring a terrifying moose-face stew recipe. Brokelyn - Ever more like Portland: Brooklyn guy offers artisanal pencil-sharpening class. Really. Gothamist - Old ...
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• SBTRKT DJ Set and very special guests’s performance in Brooklyn, NY – presale code

  
  Ticketmaster Presale Passwords by WiseGuy — Authority: 141
  The newest SBTRKT DJ Set and very special guests pre-sale password is now ready to use. Everybody with this presale information will have the chance to get great performance tickets before they go on sale!!! This could very well be your best opportunity ever to see SBTRKT DJ Set and very special guests live in ...
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• Landmarks grow in Brooklyn

  
  NY Post — Authority: 770
  Downtown Brooklyn is standing tall, with a cluster of 21 buildings set to become the city’s first-ever landmarked “skyscraper district.” The controversial plan was green-lighted yesterday by a City Council subcommittee.The plan — aimed at protecting Brooklyn Borough Hall and 20 primarily high-rise commercial ...
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• ‘Racist arrest’ cop guilty

  
  NY Post — Authority: 770
  A disgraced NYPD officer admitted yesterday that he falsified charges to arrest an innocent black man after the two exchanged angry words during a street encounter while the cop was on plainclothes patrol on Staten Island.Michael Daragjati, a white eight-year NYPD veteran, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court to...
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• [Interview] Caveman

  
  Proxart — Authority: 107
  When I first discovered Caveman, they were a little-known band from Brooklyn with one of the unexpectedly best albums of the year . However, their debut album, CoCo Beware , had yet to be released and they were still playing mostly local shows. But soon after it was released last fall, many finally caught wind of ...
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• Red Hook Summer

  
  PORTAIL ECONOMIQUE DE TURQUIE — Authority: 145
  Spike Lees best movies are always polarizing. DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X, BAMBOOZLED; Lee has built his reputation on provocative, controversial cinema. In that regard at least, Lees new film, RED… Spike Lees best movies are always polarizing. DO THE RIGHT THING, MALCOLM X, BAMBOOZLED; Lee has built his ...
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• EPA Gowanus Canal Superfund Meeting Tonight in Brooklyn

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  Community Board 6 sent us a reminder that the U.S. Environmental Protection Administrations public meeting on the Gowanus Canal Superfund Feasibility Study takes place tonight (Tuesday, Jan. 24) at 7 PM. The location will be the auditorium of P.S. 58, 330 Smith Street. The Draft Feasibility Study is available for ...
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• Whole Foods Hearing Today at 1:30; End of Manufacturing In Gowanus?

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  The second, and likely the last, public hearing at NYC Board of Standards & Appeals on the Whole Foods variance application is today, Tuesday, Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m. You may be eager for organic roof-grown lettuce, but the Gowanus Institute sent us an email saying hold up a minute: allowing the Whole Foods ...
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• Family Wants Criminal Investigation of Sons Death in Bushwick; Police Stonewall

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  Last October, a truck dragged cyclist Mathieu Lefevre 40 feet on a street in Bushwick, then left the scene of the crash. Lefevre died, and police said he was at fault. It took a Freedom of Information Act filing, but now the cyclists parents have discovered that the NYPD took no data from the truck’s event data ...
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• Brooklyn Decker - German Filmball in Munich

  
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• Who Knew High-Risk Cargo Entered Country In Red Hook? And More Brooklyn Briefs

  
  mcbrooklyn — Authority: 419
  - New York pols are sounding an alarm over a plan to stop inspections of “high-risk” cargo entering the country at the Red Hook Container Terminal in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Eagle - Rapes and sexual assaults have tripled in Williamsburg and Greenpoint this year. L Magazine - Elected officials gathered ...
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• David Beckham Introduced His Sons to Selena Gomez

  
  Glamour Vanity — Authority: 489
  Kids of celebrities are lucky ones. Best toys, best clothes, best places for vacation,briefly, everything the best. And their parents are ready to make their dreams come true due to inexhaustable opportunities. So did David Beckham by introducing his sons to... Selena Gomez...
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• A Belated Sunday Style: Snowy Sandiego

  
  Travel and Toile — Authority: 109
  It snowed here on Saturday!  Brooklyn is covered in a beautiful blanket of white.  Prospect Park looked particularly wonderful.  On Sunday, Danny and I went out for a nice jaunt.  I tried out my new Holga camera, and we froze our toes.  It was cold, and though our shoes were waterproof, well... it was cold. The ...
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• Large Leather Purses

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  The original Large Leather Purses address: Liu Jixing: army generals are the authors Franklin is very common with him, was a legendary character, many “firsts” in the history of the Army: Sino War, the Soviet Union first received 8-year-old first, stationed in the Northeast enter the war after the first exposure ...
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• I am dying laughing at Brooklyn boy’s photo. I hope he...

  
  daily junk la — Authority: 136
  I am dying laughing at Brooklyn boy’s photo. I hope he wasn’t cruising around an elementary school. This lumber jack and I have a phone date coming up. I need to work out the Brooklyn trip details!
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