I noticed today on the way to work all the camera crews on fulton street. They’ve started shooting for the movie “Notorious” and I snatched a few pics of the rapper Gravy who wil be playing Biggie. Also in the cast will be Angela Basset as Biggie’s mom Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke(the lead from Antoine [...]
Random Playground Pics…
Here’s a few pics I took while hanging with my kids at the playground recently. I love the spring time!!
Music Videos Shot in The Area#4
The next entry in this series was shot in the winter of 1994 I believe. I was in Savannah, Georgia visiting some family when it came out and seeing this video with shots in the neighborhood, made me extremely home sick. The song is called “Renee” and in Hip Hop circles this song would referred [...]
Fulton Street in the ’80’s-’90’s
On my way to work today a feeling of nostalgia hit me as I came upon Fulton street and St.James place. The awning from the pharmacy was removed to reveal the old sign from when it was a liquor store. I’m assumming this is for the movie being filmed about Notorious B.I.G. It would be [...]
Toddler Tennis
As mentioned previously my father played and continues to play in Fort Greene Park religiously. Here’s some throwback pictures of myself hitting the ball around as we waited for a court on the sidelines. I’m between 3-4 years old, which would make the year either ‘78 0r ‘79. I’ve been kind of slacking, while I [...]
Fundraiser for The Paul Robeson Theater
Mirrors on Grand will be hosting a fundraiser on Thursday April, 24th for The Paul Robeson Theater which is located on Greene ave between Carlton and Adephi avenues. The Paul Robeson Theater is the only black theater in Brooklyn and it needs everyone’s efforts to keep it open and maintained. Please don’t miss out on the oppurtunity [...]
Music Videos Shot in the Hood#3
This video here was done by the one and only Lauryn Hill. The album that this song is featured on is a certified classic!!
Children’s Community of Clinton Hill
Here’s a class picture of my nursery/pre-k class in 1979. As you can see it’s like a human kiddie crayola box. The Childrens Community of Clinton Hill nursery school, located on waverly between dekalb and lafayette, was very diverse and a reflection of the neighborhood at the time. You had black, white, east asian, latino and mixed kids. [...]
LOX Bar and Ultra Lounge
This friday April 11, 2008, celebrity DJ/model Beverly Bond will be spinning at LOX Bar and Ultra Lounge, located on Putnam ave between Cambridge pl. and Grand ave . DJ Beverly Bond has deejayed for everyone from Sean “P.Diddy” Combs to the Republican National Convention(I won’t hold that against her lol). I caught one of her [...]
Music Videos Shot in the Area#2
The first video in this post was filmed in 1993 and even with the grainy footage you can catch shots in the hood. All videos posted today are from the group Digable Planets, all of whom lived in the neighborhood at some point, which I mentioned in the celeb post(post#4).
This next [...]
