Tag Archives: Brooklyn

No idea what’s going on here. Damn hipsters.

A lesbian-owned maternity shop in Brooklyn’s Park Slope is offering a discount to lesbian moms only, although the owner doesn’t ask patrons to “prove” that they are gay. While a few people have looked “questioningly” at the placard advertising the unique discount, Paperno says the overall response to the lesbians-only promo is positive. “People are tickled by it,” Paperno says, …

An openly gay Brooklyn man required ten hours of surgery and three metal plates in his face after a February 22nd anti-gay attack by a group of six teenagers. Via yesterday’s Brooklyn Paper: Barie Shortell, 29, was on N. Fourth Street on Feb. 22 at around 10:10 pm when he brushed past six teenagers wearing hooded sweatshirts. “Oh s–t, is …

When did Topher Grace get so hawt? By the way, the original Don’t You Want Me came out thirty freakin’ years ago. Now help Paw-Paw to his rocker.

According to Buzzfeed, the latest silly trend in Brooklyn is the catpack – a meshed backpack for carrying your kitty around town. Sometimes I feel bad that Shelley never gets out of my tiny apartment, but I’m very confident that if I tried this with her, the screaming would be heard from here to Harlem. Maybe these are just for …

“There is no possible medical, nonsexual assistance that a partially naked person could possibly be rendering to another naked person in the position described.” – New York state arbitrator Mary Crangle, ruling that two female high school teachers had been fucking in an empty Brooklyn classroom. The teachers claimed that one had been feeling faint from low blood sugar and …

Last Sunday’s mid-blizzard dip was only a trial run for yesterday’s massive attendance at the annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge, where thousands endured the needle-sting of the 35-degree North Atlantic for the bragging right of having done so. Oh, the shrinkage! Like a frightened turtle! (Via – Gothamist)

In a blizzard, no less.

Beekeepers in Red Hook, Brooklyn say their hives are producing Red Dye #40-laden honey because their bees have been dive-bombing a nearby maraschino cherry factory. Mr. Selig, who owns the restaurant chain Rice and raises the bees as a hobby, was disappointed that an entire season that should have been devoted to honey yielded instead a red concoction that tasted …

Nicely understated electro featuring LCD Soundsystem vocalist Nancy Whang, who gets rotoscoped through the unlovely landscape of Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Brooklyn detectives were able to identify some local heroin dealers thanks to images captured on Google Street View, where multiple photos showed the group working the corner. Also, do dealers really still use that hanging shoes bit?

At Westboro Baptist Church’s picket outside a synagogue in Brooklyn yesterday, NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind lunged through the barricades to shove Shirley Phelps-Roper. She says she will not press charges. FYI, Hikind is a completely deranged anti-gay asshat, so you might want to hold your applause.

I adore Rosie Perez and want to gay-marry her accent.

More coverage of the NYC event is here.

Naturally they did this on the hipster-heavy L line. (Via – Gothamist)

I knew the Gregory Brothers wouldn’t resist this.

The National Weather Service has decided that NYC actually got hit by two confirmed tornadoes on Thursday evening. The city is applying to FEMA for disaster relief for parts of Queens and Brooklyn. About 15,000 residents are still without power more than a day later.

Gothamist points us to this rather hilarious clip of two guys in Brooklyn freaking the fuck out over yesterday’s tornado/whatever. The comments on YouTube are a riot. “Fake and gay.” I just think they have a really nice apartment. Anyway, stand by the inevitable auto-tuned remixes.

Folks in the midwest will likely be unimpressed, but it was a pretty wild storm by New York City standards. One person killed, lots of cars and trees wrecked. The NY Times has plenty of photos.