Bed-Stuy Banana
Blog URL http://bedstuybanana.com
Located Brooklyn, New York USA
Tags photography, personal, neighbourhood, gentrification, hipsters, parenting
A yellow girl raised in a white suburb shacked up with a white boy and had a tan kid in Bedford-Stuyvesant, a primarily black neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s a look at the few blocks that comprise our world and a little bit beyond.
Latest Blog Posts
- Platanos! on Nov 19, 2009 in Graffiti Personal
more local banana graffiti. en espagnol!With all the mad running around that is my life now, I neglected to celebrate the second birthday of this blog on September 18th. Two years, one month and 579 posts later...Happy birthday to me! Thanks to my sw...
- ***STOLEN*** on Nov 16, 2009 in Crime Community Notices Gentrification
***STOLEN***black Fender Stratocastermaple neck with white pickguardlight greenish knobsREWARD for info leading to its returnno questions askedI'm loving the array of posted flyers on the pole outside our subway station. They are a perfect example of...
- Today's Local News: Happy Halloween on Nov 1, 2009 in Little Joe Personal
It's been a rough week. For us. Comparatively. Yes, I know we're not homeless, or starving or dying of cancer, but it was still a rough week. Although, now that it's over, I can finally laugh about it.Monday, I picked our son up from afterschool and...
- Not Too Late to Vote for Change in Bed-Stuy on Oct 27, 2009 in 36th District City Council
Mark Winston Griffith in the 36th Council district debate on Sept.8th.Sadly, I missed my chance to lose my voting virginity when the Bed-Stuy democratic primary election happened in September (?) I don't know, it's all a blur. All I know is I spent t...
- Today's Local News: Hate Crimes and Another Reason to Avoid Our Local Hospital on Oct 21, 2009 in Crime Subway Station Bikes Cops
Mario Vera, inside his Beth Israel Medical Center room, was attacked by two individuals who yelled ethnic slurs when he was on his way home after picking up free groceries at a church's food pantry. Photo: NY Daily NewsBoth the NY Times and the NY Da...
- Today's Local News: Batman Trumps Spiderman (and Superman too) on Oct 18, 2009 in Little Joe DIY Personal
This week was Little Joe's birthday. He turned the ripe old age of five. And somehow managed to outgrow Spiderman. Now it's all about Batman. Even though Big Joe tells him that Spiderman is cooler because he has super powers while Batman is just this...
- County of Kings on Oct 12, 2009 in Reviews
Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York TimesThe poet and actor Lemon Andersen in the Brooklyn housing complex where he grew up.Friday night was our 'date night.' Usually date night means once Little Joe's asleep, a back rub and a little more. Only this n...
