P, 61, came to Atlantic City from Long Island City, where he left behind a recovering heroin addict brother, an ailing mother and an estranged wife with a cocaine dependency. He’s at the Taj Mahal Casino every weekend.
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November 28, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Places Everyone: Life Behind the Curtain
What happens in a theater's dressing room? Anna Codrea-Rado goes behind the scenes at the Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO to see what life is like backstage
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November 23, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
Diminished Street Cleaning Services Leave Seventh Avenue Trashed
Park Slope’s primary commercial district has transformed from an immaculate strip of small businesses to a garbage-ridden spectacle.
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November 17, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
LIVE BLOG: OWS “Day of Action”
Live coverage from Zuccotti Park as the OWS movement attempts to disrupt the New York Stock Exchange
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November 15, 2011September 27, 2019Brooklyn Life
OWS: An Uneasy Calm Before the Storm
Tensions were already running high at Zuccotti Park on the afternoon before the New York Police Department cleared the park of the Occupy Wall Street encampment.
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November 14, 2011September 27, 2019Arts & Culture, Brooklyn Life, Death in Brooklyn
Good Grief: In the Zine World, a Place to Mourn
I arrived with a friend at Death by Audio on South 2nd Street to find two women at the entrance asking for a sliding-scale donation. I asked them what lay at the end of the corridor they flanked, “It’s a fundraiser for The Worst Zine.” Still none the wiser, I handed them five dollars and...
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November 4, 2011November 8, 2011Brooklyn Life, Politics
Qaddafi Eulogized in Bed-Stuy
Late Libyan dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi was remembered in Bed-Stuy on Thursday night, at a memorial service organized by the December 12th movement.
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November 1, 2011December 14, 2011Brooklyn Life, Politics
Where are the Intellectuals? An Essay on Occupy Wall Street
Anna Codrea-Rado explores Occupy Wall Street's lack of intellectual discourse.
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October 21, 2011October 21, 2011Brooklyn Life
Dragonfly and Russell
Many of Dragonfly’s tattoos, including the ones on her face, were done using the “ta moko” hand tapping method. The skin is pierced with a small tool before inserting the ink. Dragonfly, 39, had already tattooed the stars on her chin herself when she met a Maori tattoo artist named Inia. She asked him to...
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October 21, 2011October 21, 2011Brooklyn Life
Tristan Fitch
Tristan Fitch, 40, was flipping through an archeology book when he came across an image that spoke to him and he knew instantly that he wanted it tattooed on him. Something “clicked” when he saw the griffin, a mythical creature with the body of lion and an eagle’s head and wings. He later discovered, after...