Geez Louise. The copy on this ad below is kinda bonkers. So you wonder why the Q threw such a fit about people complaining about affordability? The typical rates for housing lotteries currently...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/07/affordable-to-whom.html
Some have asked the Q - "where did you go?" Been making music! Three records. Having a ball. Raising kids, avoiding COVID, delivering groceries. If you need proof of activity A, it's all on the o...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/06/rezoning-done-right.html
Just in time f. or you to jump in your time machine and go back to Tuesday, the Echo is here with a rundown of City Council candidates. I'm impressed they got an issue out at all frankly. God b...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-echo-echo-echo-is-here.html
Good lord. Just now, this is truly insane. Thx Eddie for the picture. Hope no one was in the living room at that moment...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/06/bus-tragedy-at-bedford-and-lincoln.html
In case you don't subscribe to the Haitian Times, the Q thought you might like to know what's up with the vendors who were displaced by the building of the huge affordable housing complex at Cato...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-caton-market-to-return-thanks-god.html
Tonight. Forum. Sign up for the Zoom meeting. Like, now. OMG it's City elections season already. And a bevy of potential council people to choose from in the 40th. Please, please don't elect c...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/03/14-years-is-long-time-to-have-shitty.html
I feel like I've known Bob Marvin for a long time, but I've never been inside his digs, so this is a real treat. Plus the story of old PLG Lefferts that he and Elaine tell. Look, the Q is super...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/03/in-with-old-in-with-new.html
Always nice to pick up a hookah, tobacco and candy on the way home from school. Conveniently located across from the Q at Parkside! Note - BIGMOE parked out front.
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-smell-smoke-n-candy-here.html
Live in a place long enough, you can spot the long trends. The coming and goings of businesses, the changing of the faces, the physical and emotional architecture. As Mrs. Q and I round the corne...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/12/flatbush-2020-whats-going-on-really.html
This guy was the quintessential Brooklyn kook, in the best sort of way. Endlessly optimistic about the potential for greater relations between races and religions, Bob was a neighborhood leader, ...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/11/so-long-bob-thomason.html
Pic by Gregory Mango Been a few years now, but this very spot was the scene of another tragic shooting of a young rollerblader named Brian Scott . Live in a neighborhood long enough, you...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/11/shooting-across-from-q.html
Yes, it's possible to both love and loathe a building you've never been in or seen in 3D. I know because I am currently in hate/love with 15 Ocean , as rendered by Rise Architecture (no developer...
History takes the long view. The present, of course, is merely experience. But humans are notoriously unable to comprehend short-term past and future. Analysis is for the birds, typically ina...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/10/on-edge-of-precipice-of-turning-point.html
pic by Lloyd Mitchell for Brooklyn Paper We've all imagined the scenario. Through no fault of our own, or random carelessness, a fire breaks out in our abode. And even if we all get out ali...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/10/fire-destroys-apartment-on-clarkson.html
Lovin' that Dixie Chicks song Gaslighter . Sorry, I mean, The Chicks. Does anything speak to the moment more than a song of defiance that sounds like it talks about Trump written by a rich white ...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/09/yet-another-gaslighter-among-so-very.html
Despite the horrible job America does at teaching black history, I do remember a few names and did my own research as a teen to get to know them better. MLK and Malcolm X for sure, and Harriet Tu...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/06/shirley-and-diana-history-and-legacy.html
Assemblywoman Diana Richardson To put it mildly, elections have consequences. Not since 9/11 (aNOTHER stolen election mind you) has that been so obvious, at the Federal level. But watching d...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/06/could-diana-and-zell-lead-way-to.html
Is the current moment of political unrest a chance for solidarity between white and black? Or are all the same dynamics of race, gender and class that plague societal progress simply playing out ...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/05/when-whites-crash-blacklivesmatter-vs.html
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http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-echo-is-here-death-life-in.html
When a guy's right, a guy's right. And Eric's nailed it on this issue. Standing within six feet of another person without a mask isn't a crime - it's a bad idea, reckless sure, but maybe unintent...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/05/eric-adams-is-right-get-police-out-of.html
Lots of people hungry. Lots of folks lost their jobs. Lots of folks were reliant on someone who lost their job. Lots of folks can't pay their rent, their mortgage. Lots. Lots and lots. Sound li...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-great-depression-begins.html
Overwhelmed? Of course you are. It's okay to feel that way, but it's not good for the ticker and gray matter to stay that way. The back doesn't like it either. Some folks are dealing with a de...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/04/flatbush-mutual-aid-needs-you.html
Wondering if you've got the demon bug? You can actually get tested, if you're in one of these high risk groups. Given that Essential Workers is a huge category these days that includes everythi...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/04/testing-and-self-delusion.html
As a man past 50 I'll tell you a little secret - the Q is lost without his Metamucil. For years I wondered why I couldn't depend upon regular and satisfying bowel movements, but like so many men ...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-new-normal-is-really-not-normal.html
It's getting hard to talk to friends about how this COVID-19 gets transmitted. So much fear and hype that I try to stick to the experts and not argue. No one likes a know-it-all, especially in a ...
http://theqatparkside.blogspot.com/2020/03/its-all-in-hands-and-face.html