More Eastern Pictures
Thanks to Konrad for taking (and bringing me!) these. There aren’t too many streets with pretty trees. Alas, the trees don’t stop bullets. But the streets with trees tend to be less abandoned.
Thanks to Konrad for taking (and bringing me!) these. There aren’t too many streets with pretty trees. Alas, the trees don’t stop bullets. But the streets with trees tend to be less abandoned.
Here are pictures from the Eastern District today. I keep thinking that the Eastern hasn’t changed since I left. But of course it has. On one hand, Hopkins took over a bunch of it. On the other, I’m sure it’s even more abandoned than ever. The population dropped 30% between 1990 and 2000. There’s no…
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2008:I just got this pic of the corner from Durham and Eager in the Eastern. I love the new PR campaign: “My New East Side is Stylish.” “Clean.” “Innovative.” “United.” “Exciting.” “The Future.” “Family.” I hope it works. It looked nothing like this when I was there. In 2000 the corner looked like the picture…
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Enjoy CUNY radio’s podcast interview of me. “Book Beat.” What a good name for a show that features a book about police. (CUNY, pronounced Quny, stands for the City University of New York, of which John Jay College is a part)
Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, the actress who played a cold-blooded killer of the same name on the HBO series The Wire, was arrested on minor drug charges yesterday after police picked her up for refusing to cooperate as a witness in a murder trial, records show. The whole story in The Sunis here.
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Dave H. sent me the link to this cartoon by Chris Britt in the Peoria Journal Star.
Here’s the linkto the interview I did today. I haven’t heard it yet. I hope it’s good.
KPFT. About drugs.