The Brooklyn police officer "pointed at my outfit and said, 'Don't you think your shorts are a little short?'"

"He also stopped two other women wearing dresses... pointed at their dresses and said they were showing a lot of skin." He said th...

I'm shocked, shocked to learn that semi-clad models are writhing in the law library!

"... Brooklyn Law School officials rented Diesel its library expecting a tasteful photo shoot for a jeans ad -- but what they got was a...

"Brooklyn is now overrun with rats and opossums."

"A few years ago, officials in Brooklyn, New York came up with a seemingly brilliant idea to deal with the rat-infestation problem in t...

"Living in her gilded cage all these years, Madonna, once a frequenter of dirty Manhattan bars, clubs, and pizza joints, has lost touch with the Real New York...."

And then she encountered our Palladian! If only he had stuck around. He might have heard a whispered "Thank you." Ha ha ha ha.

"I yelled at Madonna today, and I didn't even realize it until later!"

So Madonna is filming this movie in Brooklyn... and our longtime commenter Palladian has an encounter : I yelled at Madonna today, and I di...

"My God, it's a mansion!"

"It's a house." Now, have a nice breakfast. And don't sell the house. I love this house.

Are there better window boxes anywhere than in Brooklyn Heights?

These appear within one block on Columbia Heights just north of Pierrepont Street: I'm very impressed by the care taken arranging the pl...

"I wish you'd stay in Brooklyn, as Madison is such a PC backwater."

Wrote commenter Kirby Olson in my post with the photograph of a small protest march , taken from my 9th floor window at Brooklyn Law School....

Stray images from a walk in Williamsburg, Part 1.

What does it mean? Who is this man? I have no interpretations. My response is emptily graphic.

Obama on 6th Street.

In Brooklyn, New York. AND: Commenter Scrutineer points to this blog post by Steve Sailer that discusses the Obama campaign poster that is ...

That cheese shop on Bedford Avenue.

I loved the literary experience. Click on "enlarge" to read the cheese blurbs: enlarge enlarge enlarge But in the end, I made my s...

Calm.

"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, at the moon only when it is cloudless?"

Wrote Yoshida Kenkô in one of my favorite books "Essays in Idleness." "To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to low...

The trees that resist the touch of springtime.

You've got to respect them. They have ways of their own. They aren't going to prettify themselves just because you think it's th...

I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday in the early evening.

And there was that one guy skateboarding across: Oh! I was ravenous when I got to the other side: I craved sustenance: And I found a comfort...

Ruth Anne wants a palate cleanser.

Here: Sorry. I was out walking over the Brooklyn Bridge.

A modern place.

Here's a big fisheye overview of the "modern life" section of the Brooklyn Museum of Art: Go here for a full size version of ...

"What Not to Wear" is not the kind of reality show I would normally watch.

It's a "how-to" reality show, to use the Television Without Pity categories . The reality shows I enjoy are nearly all in the ...

Portraits painted exactly 100 years apart.

"The Sisters, " by Rembrandt Peale. Painted in 1828. "Portrait of Paul Cadmus," by Luigi Lucioni. Painted in 1928. (From...

The Cherry Esplanade.

I was at the Cherry Espanade 2 weeks ago — remember? Just buds. Now — full bloom. It was overcast and chilly that other day, and brightly s...