New Green-Wood Cemetery blog!

Brownstoner informs us that our beloved Green-Wood cemetery has a blog hosted by it's historian. I am looking forward to reading, not just because the cemetery is practically my neighbor. My parents and my aunt and Uncle are buried there at the Hillside Mausoleum. I am a frequent visitor to the cemetery. Battle Hill is one of my favorite spots. It is here after all one could say this country was born at the Battle of Brooklyn. Had Washington been captured there, well, history would certainly have been different..


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Because it's Christmas time, that's why !!

I have an affinity for this piano piece of Christmas music. If you're not familiar with George Winston. Well, all I can say is that I am glad to introduce him to you. Enjoy!

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Christmas makes a comeback?

I don't know if I am the only one who has noticed that there is a greater abundance of Christmas lights on the houses this year than in previous recent times. Especially in our adjoining neighborhoods of Bay Ridge and Dyke Heights. It just seems that more people have decided to decorate their houses. It's almost as if they are giving the finger to the secular humanist movement that would like to eradicate all these pesky non-muslim holidays. I suspect the secularists will not be derailed. I wonder when the city council will pass legislation making the display of Christmas lights and anything related to it as a form of hate speech expression and we will be fined if we violate it. What the heck, you get fined for everything else in this town. What the Feds don't take , the sanitation police and traffic agents will have..

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New Billiards Hall has Opened

100 fun KTV the Karaoke Bar located on 60th street between 10th Avenue and Fort Hamilton took over the old billiard hall next door and built a new poolhall from scratch. The Grand Opening took place in late November. The place boats a large cavernous hall with a large number of tables. For more info you can go here. Goes to show you that even in a rather questionable economy new places are opening all over the neighborhood. It should be interesting if the clientele at the Pool Hall turns out to be other than Chinese.















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Polish Deli closes

As I was walking along 8th avenue I came across the for rent sign in one of the oldest stores that has been around as long as I remember. The Polish Deli on the corner of 47th and 8th Ave. probably signifies and symbolizes the difficulty of staying in business with changing demographics and and a diminishing Polish population in the neighborhood whose members have been slowly either returning to Poland or moving out of state. It will be sorely missed and we will now have to depend on only one other delicatessen on 8th Avenue for Polish products. You have to wonder if being the only survivor left of a once vibrant but almost invisible Polish community in the nabe is any solace to having your last competitor close..







The only Polish Deli and Meat market left in the neighborhood on the corner of 48th and 8th..

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Finally we're back in business

In our last post we had planned to make a return to blogging, but alas things did not work out that way. First my laptops were stolen right out of my truck and I had to since postpone my plans. It wasn't just the my laptops were stolen it's that all my backups software etc. were stolen with them. Needless to say the whole episode has become a learning experience and an expensive one at that. We have mostly replaced the stuff and have begun to get back into the swing of things. We have also gotten a new mobile camera to carry around and use to snap shots of the nabe. Hopefully the lessons of the stolen laptop episode will be taken to heart and we will be able to once more post some stuff of interest..