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Come Celebrate Bastille Day at Chez Oskar’s 25th Anniversary

July 14, 2024 – 3:29 am

Come celebrate Bastille Day at Chez Oskar’s 21th Anniversary Celebration and their 3nd year in Bed-Stuy. Our July 14th Brunch begins at 12 noon We’ll fete ‘Liberte Egalite Fraternite’ throughout the day with fine food, great wine, song, and petanque. From 7pm to 10 pm enjoy the enchanting music of Blue Dalhia – warm and […]

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BOOMBOX @ The House of Art / Bed Stuy

April 13, 2013 – 7:19 pm

I liked two galleries in New York and one of them is the House of Art on 409 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bed Stuy. The curator Richard Beavers learned his licks from his mother, who bought him to museums and art shows, and this instilled love shows in the artists flocking to his gallery. BOOMBOX […]

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Nightstalking Bed-Stuy

February 24, 2013 – 4:51 pm

Friday night I attended a Protest Art opening curated by Richard Beavers at his House of Art Gallery. Its location was not in Midtown, Chelsea, Soho, or the Lower East Side, but at 408 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyesant, a Brooklyn neighborhood for its famed motto ‘Bed-Stuy, do or die’. Little Harlem fell on hard […]

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Bed-Stuy Goodbye

March 10, 2010 – 8:18 pm

Cities are considered dangerous by vast majority of Americans. They used to be right in New York. A wrong turn off I-95 could have led to a car jacking in the Bronx. A mistimed joke could have earned a stranger a baseball bat beating in Howard Beach and a walk down East 4th Street was […]

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