In the current NYC housing market, it can get a depressing if you don't have a house-not to mention the deep savings to get a down payment on one. And the prices just keep inching up and up. www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/nyreg . . . rty.html?_r=1&oref=slogin www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/04/ . . . h-Firm-Harlem-Housing.php With real estate serving as more of an investment (thanks Wall st. bonuses!) than the makings of a home, housing has become (much more) privilege than right. This is especially true for the poorest of New Yorkers, struggling to make rent a manageable part of their meager paychecks-in a market that has forgotten their needs. So when the...

Bushwick: The Fire Woman

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

This image, by artist and teacher Joe Matunis, was part of a mural put up back in 1994 with the help of Bushwick High students. It was located in the park at Putnam and Irving. The rebirth hinted at in this mural is as much about this Bushwick as this park, once an infamous haunt for drug dealing. But this is not about the drugs. Its about the flames. The mural is gone now. But for those moved by this work, you'll be happy to know that Joe will be back on the scene this summer, as the Academy for...

Urban Eccentricities: The Bird Man of Lenox Rd.

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

"Some people, them like cats, and others, them like dogs. Me, I like the birds". The "Bird Man" of Lenox Rd. (as his neighbor called him with a hoot and smirk) is the local eccentric in this corner of Brooklyn, at Lenox Rd. and 43rd St. While most eccentrics keep their habits bundled up behind closed doors, the Bird Man (he would not share his name or let me take a picture of him)puts it out there for all to see, surrounding the outside of his property with his obsession--to make life better for neighborhood birds. While most might find it...

Losing Soup

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

When you latch onto something good in NYC, you have to hold on tight. That goes all the more for Chinese food. And for my wife and I, hot and sour soup. Its just so amazingly different at every different cheap take out place. While in most, it amounts to spicy snot,in quite a few, its an essential treat. We lost the best one two years ago, a rich red Szechuan concoction with shredded pork, form Best Wok at Fulton and Lafayette. That was hard. For weeks, I'd find myself going back, checking the shuttered doors to see that, maybe...

Bushwick: You Could Cut Yourself on That Thing

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

The absurd angle of this building at the corner of Dekalb and Myrtle--under the M line--is itself a measure of the extent to which the Bushwick real estate market has shot up to bizarre heights in the last few years. Traffic islands; who builds on triangular traffic islands in the city? This one stood empty for years, full of trash. But no longer. Someone is building some sort of business here now. Wow. Watch out, you might cut yourself. On the building; on the market.

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