Chris Gallagher spotted a line in the Brooklyn Papers interview with Sufjan Stevens (who apparently lives in Kensington and outside the super-parochial purview of this blog's music links, though I love his stuff) that should add substantially to the hood's cachet:
I think Cortelyou Road is one of the most diverse streets in the entire country. There’s no consensus in terms of the ethnicity and the kinds of people who live there, it’s so mixed. There are little boutique shops coming in and some great restaurants — you should go to The Farm [on Adderley]. It’s two blocks down on Cortelyou. That’s the place to be; it’s really good food.This can only add to my appreciation of BQE, to which I got tickets a while ago in a fit of organization.
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Yeah Kensington! (AND Ditmas Park... ) Unlike some residents of each, I support both as I'm in the middle.
In other indie rock/Ditmas Park news, I saw Jens Lekman at the Music Hall of Williamsburg last night, and he changed a lyric in "Tram Number 7 to Heaven" to say "You can get your banana at Eleven-Seven," which he then explained "is a place out in Brooklyn." And he's from Sweden! Add the fact that the National live here, and you've got the most indie-precious neighborhood in New York (though at least these can actually write songs).
Ditmas Park is in Kensington. Midwood is in Kensington as well. The real estate agents made up the name and the borders.
Right... "the real estate agents" from the 1900's did.
You didn't just write "outside the super-parochial purview". We need to silkscreen that onto a Ditmas t-shirt! Now I appreciate this blog not only for the links and the community (oh, and the momos!), but for the hilarious writing. Thanks, B and L! EFS.
From Kensington's Wiki page:
Kensington is a neighborhood in the center of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the area south of Prospect Park and the Green-Wood Cemetery. It is bordered by Coney Island Avenue to the east, Caton Avenue/ Ft. Hamilton Parkway to the north, 36th St to the west, and 18th Avenue to the south. The neighborhoods that border it are Ditmas Park and Prospect Park South to the east, Windsor Terrace to the north, Borough Park to the west, and Parkville to the south.
Wiki was most likely after the postal lines were drawn. I agree that most neighborhood borders are fabricated by realtors/developers ... funny to see people get so territorial about their borders when they're really, on the most part, "invisible".
Debate at Lolita Bar: "Did the Government Know in Advance About 9/11?"
YES: Sander Hicks, founder of Soft Skull Press, Vox Pop, and Drench
Kiss Media and author of _The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up_.
NO: Karol Sheinin, blogger at AlarmingNews.com (at one point guest blogger for Michelle Malkin) and founder of the counter-protest group Actual Truth About 9/11.
This contentious issue will be broached next week on WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7 (at 8pm) on the basement level of Lolita Bar (266 Broome St. at Allen St., one block south and three west of the Delancey St. subway stop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side).
This makes me think of a "This American Life" episode I was listening to. They interview a woman who lived the horror of London's July 7 bombing and was faced to debate a man who believed it was British governmental conspiracy.
For those interested, it makes for an interesting listen...
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=338
(if you can, fast forward towards the last 15 or 20 mins).
The woman who lived it, started with a blog where this man started referencing to and attacking her credibility:
http://rachelnorthlondon.blogspot.com/
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