Williamsburg – Larry Livermore

Cars, Bikes, and People

June 11, 2013June 12, 2018 Larry Livermore 4 Comments Astoria, Bicycles, Bushwick, Cars, Citi Bike, Greenpoint, Greenwich Village, London, Mike's Bikes, New York City, Pedestrians, Safety, Traffic, Transportation, Williamsburg

I’m waiting, with a dozen other people, to cross Metropolitan Avenue. Mothers escorting kids home from school, hipsters languidly examining

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Old Friends

January 19, 2011 Larry Livermore 8 Comments 1990s, Berkeley, Brooklyn, Friendship, Gilman Street, Williamsburg

My nephew just turned 15, and I’m pretty sure that even if I weren’t related to him, I’d be telling

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Snow Days

December 29, 2010 Larry Livermore 0 Comments Blizzard, Brooklyn, Gabrielle Bell, New York City, Snowpocalypse, Williamsburg

It started innocently enough: the storm begins on Sunday morning. Schadenfreudists – and I know there are many of you

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These People Seem Rather Cross About Something

April 28, 2010 Larry Livermore 27 Comments Bicycles, Brooklyn, Condos, Hipsters, New York City, Williamsburg

I can’t help thinking I’m falling for some meta-textual “I know you think you know what I think you know

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In A Seaside Town

April 5, 2010 Larry Livermore 9 Comments Bedford Avenue, Bicycle lanes, Bike paths, Brighton Beach, Coney Island, Hasidim, Little Russia By The Sea, Nyack, South Williamsburg, Williamsburg

To many, especially those steeped in the miserabilist aesthetic of Morrissey, the notion of a “seaside town” is unmistakably English,

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Super, Just Super

February 8, 2010 Larry Livermore 1 Comment Blake Schwarzenbach, Bowery Ballroom, Brooklyn, Don Giovanni Records, forgetters, JEFF the Brotherhood, Marissa Paternoster, McCarren Park, New Jersey, Running, Screaming Females, Shellshag, Super Bowl, T'ai chi, The Measure, Williamsburg

No, this isn’t really about the Super Bowl, though congratulations are in order to the New Orleans Saints for a

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On The Brooklyn Beat

November 7, 2009 Larry Livermore 4 Comments Brooklyn, Chadd Derkins, Chris Grivet, Copyrights, Greenpoint, Manhattan Avenue, Nude Beach, Sandworms, The Challenged, Tommy's Tavern, Williamsburg

I don’t know what’s come over me lately, but after a lifetime of being at best grudgingly content about where

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