brooklyn
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STingRay on SoundCloud kids that painted in black reject on the sidewalk/skipped over the part where/you got a two fire hydrant head start/and your heart feels like jumping/with your bike over the cracks/in the concrete sticking up/and if you put your hands over your face,/like a god of Brooklyn you crush it
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if you’re ever in nyc, look down. hiding between sidewalk cracks and under train tracks, you might find one of the people who inhabit joe’s cool, miniature world. joe is joe iurato, a street and commercial artist, and he’s amazing. he has painted on large, outdoor walls for a long time. he also makes small,…
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sunshine today. I just want it on my face. nothing heavy happening for me. so I will skate. when I’m moving, there is no time to think, or feel bad about myself or anything.
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the thing I most dreaded when I began making songs at age 12 was being killed in a classic Brooklyn hit-and-run before I could create a world-famous masterpiece. not so much anymore. these days I don’t sit and wonder if my next song will make me famous, or whether someday critics will consider it a…
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if there is a heaven — pretty sure there is one — it must be something like the boardwalk at Coney Island at 4 PM on a beautiful spring day, the Atlantic Ocean on one hand and Deno’s Wonder Wheel on the other. The annual Blessing of the Rides ceremony takes place today at 10…
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I work at a donut shop in lower Manhattan. between shifts I earn extra income as a server. a few times a month I’m also a nighttime dishwasher. I pick up some part-time work at Macy’s Herald Square at Christmastime, and I have stood on 6th and Broadway with an ad board over my neck,…
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just off the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel into lower Manhattan, in the Red Hook neighborhood, there’s a budget motel, the Brooklyn Motor Inn. a couple of people that I know who have stayed there (no, nothing like that) said the whole place smelled like smoke. beer bottle caps in the drawer. smallest fridge, ever.…
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[WARNING: dumb joke] two nuts walked down a dark alley in Brooklyn. one was a salted. (I warned you.) and now for some candy.
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Nasser Candy is a bodega on Church Avenue in Brooklyn. everyone there speaks corner store English. it’s just a chill place. I have been there, like, a hundred times. one day it hit different. or maybe it was exactly the same, but I was different. I’m not sure what happened. but I was going to make…
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