By Jen Carlson | Feb. 6, 2021
Behold — wholly good times is what this post is all about
h/t to Gothamist!
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Gothamist | New Hidden Taco Shop Slinging First-Rate Birria In Bushwick
By Scott Lynch | Nov. 23, 2020 12:37 p.m.
Okay foodies let’s go .. time to celebrate a hidden gem you may not know about: Nene's Deli and Taqueria!
Gothamist | Bed-Stuy Gets Its Own Gigantic "Black Lives Matter" Street Painting
By Sophia Chang June 14, 2020
YES. Bed Stuy represent!
Taking inspiration from the gigantic Black Lives Matter street painting near the White House in Washington D.C., community leaders and volunteers painted a street in the heart of Bed-Stuy with the same message Saturday.
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Gothamist | Toxic, Hallucinogenic 'Zombie' Plant Growing On Upper West Side
By Jen Carlson | Sept. 9, 2019 10:57 a.m.
If you've heard of the Datura stramonium plant (it has many names, including the commonly used "jimson weed"), you've likely heard about its hallucinogenic effects, or, perhaps, how it may be used to manufacture the undead. In Wade Davis's book The Serpent and the Rainbow, he notes that in Haiti the plant is called "zombie cucumber" and is used "as a central ingredient of the concoction voodoo priests use to create zombies." It's also a popular hexing herb amongst those practicing witchcraft; was allegedly used by Josef Mengele, the Nazi physician known as the Angel of Death, during interrogations; and it has been at the center of many crimes, given its ability to "turn victims into 'zombies' devoid of free will," making them easier to manipulate or rob.
Gothamist | Is This Revolting Dead Rat Soup The Future Of NYC Pest Control?
Warning: for the queasy among us — proceed with caution. This gets mighty real.
Originally published By Jake Offenhartz @ Gothamist.com
Sept. 5, 2019 4:58 p.m.
Wow
David 'Dee' Delgado
In 1839, the naturalist John Jay Audobon was granted permission by Mayor Isaac Varian to begin shooting rats he spotted along the Battery. In the 1960s, following a series of nest-shaking tenement demolitions, the Daily News trained teenagers to lay rat poison. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani hired future subway boss Joe Lhota as his “Rat Czar,” while Mayor Bill de Blasio has toyed with removing trash cans to stamp out the unwanted rodents. David Lynch was even involved at one point. Still, there are rats.
On Thursday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joined the pantheon of New Yorkers operating under the notion that the rats might be eradicated, if only we tried a new approach. In one of the more gut-churning press conferences in recent memory, Adams summoned the city’s reporters to Borough Hall to demonstrate a “cutting-edge” rat-killing device—part bait trap, part drowning tank—known as the Ekomille. We were promised dead rats, and goddamn did we get them.
Click here to read the full post at Gothamist. [CONTENT WARNING: SO MANY DEAD RATS]
Dave Speaks | NY's New License Plates Will Still Be Made By Prisoners Earning 65 Cents An Hour
Next spring, New York State is issuing new license plates, and New Yorkers can now cast their vote for the new design. "License plates are a symbol of who we are as a state and New Yorkers should have a voice and a vote in its final design," Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a release. But the new license plates will still be produced by people incarcerated by the state, who earn an average wage of 65 cents an hour.
Roughly 2,100 prisoners work for Corcraft, which is "the ‘brand name’ for the Division of Correctional Industries,” operated by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS). The prisoners make a variety of products, from hand soap dispensers to desks to pillows, and generate around $50 million in annual sales, mostly to local governments. The revenue goes to the state general fund.