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Steve Powers Painted More Stuff In Downtown Brooklyn

A few blocks away from the vintage Macy’s parking garage that Steve Powers dressed up a few months ago, lies this newly decorated building at 119 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The NYC subway map inspired piece is entitled the “Train To Always” on his website, and features stops we’ve all been to before: “NOPE,” “MEH,” and “MAYBE,” among others. A guy who answered the phone at the hero shop below it and didn’t really feel like talking, said the landlord gave Powers permission to do the work.

By Bucky Turco on January 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm

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Crazy Naked Lady in Brooklyn Terrorizes Neighborhood, Attacks Chinese Food Spot

On Thursday at 3:30PM, things got really strange in Bay Ridge. That’s when a middled-aged woman who reminds me of the lady in the shower scene of The Shining started stripped her clothes off on 3rd Avenue near 80th Street and started yelling at people according to the witness that took video and photos, but asked to remain anonymous. Read more »

By Bucky Turco on November 15, 2011 at 12:53 am

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Scarecrow Deemed Racist

The NYPD took a scarecrow into custody on Wednesday after some complaints by community members. It was hanging on a noose from a tree in front of a Brooklyn home for a Halloween display, but overly race-sensitive councilman, Charles Barron said the dreadlocked effigy depicts a lynching. After some outcry, police responded and cut it down, saying they didn’t need permission since it was a city-owned tree. Read more »

By Bucky Turco on October 20, 2011 at 1:18 pm

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TrustoCorp Takes Brooklyn Again: ‘Drive-Thru Liposuction’

Here are some fresh street hacks by TrustoCorp in Brooklyn, wherein BP’s “KINDA SORRY,” “Everything is Not a Fine” and “Life Is Ice Cold.” Yeah, not quite as cheery as the last round. The centerpiece is a monochrome, multi-part gas station air pump takeover, complete with an old timey Drive-Thru Liposuction billboard and a 25 cent “Lipo Vac” machine: excess, gluttony, miracle cures… all zeitgeisty American themes.

By Marina Galperina on September 27, 2011 at 10:30 am

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Brooklyn in Slow Motion

What do you do with eight hours and a fancy camera loaner left over from a commercial DP gig? Next Level Pictures’ Jonathan Bregel captured split-second vignettes of real Brooklyn, drawn out with sleek slow motion. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on August 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm

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Orthodox Jews Consider State Registry

The Hasidic community in Brooklyn are still freaking out about the murder of 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky and are thinking about registering their kids with Operation Safe Child, a state-ran database that stores a chid’s pedigree information and fingerprints. Read more »

By Bucky Turco on July 20, 2011 at 1:19 pm

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Trustocorp Takes Brooklyn: “Pigeon Season Now in Effect”

Here are Brooklyn’s road and subway signs freshly hacked by TrustoCorp (first spotted yesterday), featuring handy, pictogram life instructions for the “Rough Road” and several “Things Get Better,” “Stay Positive” encouragements. Just in time for potentially harder times, it will make you LOL. Apparently, it’s sky-rat hunting season, as per the sign: “Due to the recession, pigeons in this area have been re-zoned for consumption.”

By Marina Galperina on July 20, 2011 at 11:00 am

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Gentrification vs. “Nicefication” of Brooklyn, the Documentary

“If you don’t like wealthy people or successful, profit-making businesses, you are not going to have a city,” says Bloomberg in the raw footage of My Brooklyn while stabilized rent housing gets systemically plowed down to build luxury condos. Read more »

By Marina Galperina on July 14, 2011 at 1:00 pm

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Search for Tree Killer Grows in Brooklyn

Police are looking for a Brooklyn man whose brutal attack on a tree with an axe horrified the internet. The Smoking Gun was at the site of the massacre earlier today and said that neighborhood residents ID’d the killer, as did the building owner who planted the 20 foot ginkgo a few years ago. He filed a police report. Although a cheapy bike attached to the tree was briefly stolen, the real motive appears to be straight up tree murder.

By Bucky Turco on June 10, 2011 at 4:30 pm

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Morons Commit Arborcide To Steal Bike

Watch as a group of not so smart people in Brooklyn chop down a ginkgo tree to swipe what the person who uploaded this YouTube video describes as a “fucking department store bike chained with a thin cable lock.” Mensa members they’re not.

By Bucky Turco on June 9, 2011 at 3:00 pm

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