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Please listen to both songs before you vote!
Note: "Flatbush Avenue" is short because it was used as part of larger parody medleys.
"Electric Avenue"
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#weird al#weird al yankovic#versus weird al#vs weird al#music#polls#electric avenue#eddy grant#Flatbush Avenue#Youtube
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Looking up #Flatbush_Avenue from Bergen Street, #Brooklyn.
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Art by Bob Dylan...
Flatbush Avenue - 2015/2016 - Brooklyn - Watercolour on Paper - 42.9cm x 61cm from 'The Beaten Path' Series
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#jacob banks#jacobbanks#kings theatre#jacob banks kings theatre flatbush avenue#jacob banks brooklyn new york
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1914 257 Flatbush Avenue. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.
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Walls / Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.
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Winner #22!
The results are in and the winner of our twenty-second poll - "Electric Avenue" (Eddy Grant) vs. "Flatbush Avenue" (Weird Al) - is...
"Flatbush Avenue"!
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"Flatbush Avenue" got 42.9% of 21 votes, while its opponent "Electric Avenue" got 38.1%. 19% of voters elected to see results.
"Flatbush Avenue" is a short song used for larger parody medleys, so it specifically wins the bonus medley class.
So far the score is...
Originals: 4, Weird Al: 8
Bonus Medley Score:
Originals: 6, Weird Al: 4
#weird al#weird al yankovic#versus weird al#vs weird al#results#score#winners#flatbush avenue#electric avenue#eddy grant#Youtube
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[“One afternoon in August 1913, Big Cliff Trondle was hanging out in the back of a café on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, having a smoke, wearing one of his nattiest outfits: a blue serge suit, silk hose, tan oxford shoes, and a newsboy cap. For some unspecified reason, he came to the attention of a passing police detective, who realized he was transgender and arrested him for “masquerading in men’s clothes.”
Prison records are full of “mannish” or “masculine” women, who may have considered themselves “normal,” butch, lesbian, trans, invert, intersex, or something else entirely, but Cliff was the rare early twentieth-century transmasculine person who had the chance to articulate his gender more specifically to the world.
Cliff caused a spectacle in court when he repeatedly refused to give his birth name or change into a dress. On the steps of the courthouse, Cliff told the press, “I’ve always been more boy than girl,” and he sent a letter to President Woodrow Wilson asking for permission to dress that way, though the president doesn’t seem to have ever responded. The first judge to hear Cliff’s case threw out the arrest, accurately noting that it was legal for Cliff to dress however he wanted. Although many people would be arrested for cross-dressing over the course of the twentieth century, the actual 1845 New York State law criminalized “masquerading” only if it was done as a disguise while committing another offense.
Unfortunately, the legality of Cliff’s clothes made no difference. While he was in pretrial detention, a court-appointed probation officer discovered Cliff’s birth name. With that, she found that Cliff was seventeen (not twenty-four as he claimed). He had been thrown out by his well-off family and had passed through a number of institutions for “wayward girls.” The probation officer took it upon herself to ensure that Cliff would be incarcerated and thus, in her eyes, fixed. When the judge threw out his original case, she immediately had Cliff rearrested, this time under a charge of “associating with idle and vicious persons”—aka smoking with men in a café.”]
hugh ryan, the women’s house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison, 2022
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Looking down Flatbush Avenue from Dorchester Road, #Brooklyn.
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"Manhattan Bridge crossing the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Downtown Brooklyn at the Flatbush Avenue Extension."
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2022 in antisemitic hate crimes.
Jan. 2nd: a 26 year-old Hasid was chased and beaten in Williamsburg. He required several staples in his head.
Jan. 14: in front of a Haredi Orthodox shul in Midwood, a white woman wearing Uggs and an orange hoodie spat on an 8 year-old Jewish boy and made anti-Semitic remarks. The woman allegedly yelled — at a 2, 7, and 8 year-old child playing outside of a synagogue, mind you: “Hitler should have killed you all.” “I’ll kill you and know where you live.”
Jan 22: On Shabbat in Crown Heights around 1 AM, a Hasidic man told the NYPD that he was approached and punched in the face. It's being investigated as a hate crime.
Feb. 4: On Shabbat in Bedstuy, a man ran up to two Hasidic men and punched one of them in the head.
Another assault involving a Jewish victim was also reported that same night
Feb. 11: At least one religious Jew was attacked on Shabbat evening in Flatbush by a person in a hoodie. NYPD are investigating as a hate crime. "Video shows the attacker trying to intimidate the victim, then slapping him in the face, knocking off his yarmulke."
April 1: A group of assailants repeatedly punched and kicked a Hasidic man in Williamsburg. a blurry video appears to show the group striking the victim and shoving him against the side of the truck, where he collapsed, and the beating continued.
April 2: Three teens armed with a crowbar, a knife and a machete allegedly threatened six boys, ranging in age from 12 to 16, on the Upper West Side.
May 6: Two men punched and kicked a rabbi in Crown Heights while making anti-Semitic remarks.
May 10: A man in a hoodie ran up to and punched a Jewish man walking in Flatbush. The man allegedly said, "Free Palestine."
July 13: 3 men assault a Jewish father in front of his 5 year old child
Aug. 9: A 44 year-old Jewish woman at a subway station on the Upper East Side "was choked by an unidentified male suspect, who made antisemitic remarks to her while she waited on the subway platform of the No. 6 train at around 11:20 a.m." according to NYPD.
Aug. 20: Two ultra-Orthodox men were chased down the street in Williamsburg, and at least one was sprayed with a fire extinguisher (which contains major skin and eye irritants)
Aug. 22: A 27-year-old Hasid was slapped by a stranger on Lynch St. near Marcy Ave in Williamsburg at about 4:30 p.m., per NYPD.
Aug. 22: Two teenage boys and a teen girl harassed and then chased a 13-year-old Jewish boy off of a Staten Island bus, took the boy's yarmulke from of his head, and fled.
Sep. 13: A 58 year-old man in Far Rockaway was allegedly punched in the face by a man hurling antisemitic epithets. NYPD has arrested a 34 year-old suspect, per Hamodia.
Sep. 17: Female suspect verbally assaults a Hassidic man before slapping the hat (and Kippah) off his head
Oct. 23: A suspect on a bike road up behind an 18 year old Jewish man and knocked him down
Oct. 24: Three students standing outside their Yeshivah on Avenue L & East 18th Street, were pelted by eggs. The perpetrators screamed “Free Palestine" and forced the students to say it as well.
Nov. 3: an elderly Jewish man walking on Kingston Ave had water and garbage thrown at him.
Nov. 8: Three men fired a gel-based pellet gun at a Hasidic woman and her son. They have been charged with assault as a hate crime, assault, aggravated harassment, and criminal possession of a weapon.
Nov. 9: A group of 4 assaulted a Jewish man in Brooklyn, knocking off his streimel
Dec. 5: A father and his 7 year-old son were shot with a BB gun outside of a Staten Island kosher grocery store
I want to be clear that A) this is ONLY! inside of New York City B) is only assaults and not any other kind of hate crimes like harassment or threats or property crimes and finally C) this is one reporter's informal attempt to track this problem, she admits she thinks she missed some crimes, so this list should not be seen as an authoritative list.
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Ran my first half marathon today and it was one of the best days of my life. Some of the many highlights included running down Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, across the Manhattan Bridge, and through Times Square—then fighting for that last mile in a VERY hilly Central Park. When I started training, my goal was 2:30:00—then I got COVID, and my goal was just to finish. My time ended up being 2:27:59!
Thank you to everyone who supported Team for Kids through my fundraiser so I could run this race—my friends from tumblr made up the overwhelming majority of the donations I received and I am so so grateful. I didn’t know if y’all would want me to tag you but you know who you are and thank you thank you thank you
Several of you donated in memory of Phil, and anyone who knows me understands that means the world. Team for Kids supports youth programs throughout the country but especially New York City, Phil’s home—and while he wasn’t exactly a runner (at least a very reluctant one) those kinds of community programs were very close to his heart. I’m sure he’d be humbled and honored by your thinking of him.
I thought of him all day, his name on my shoes so he was with me every step. I would not be here���running like this, in New York, alive, etc—if it wasn’t for him. This trip has been hard, I miss him and wish he was here so badly. But I still see him all over the city, including the “Willy” carved into the sidewalk near our hotel, reminding me of his Willy Loman every time we pass it. The block where Synecdoche and Scent of a Woman were filmed. So much purple. The overpasses and waterways of Jack Goes Boating. A hundred other little moments.
Thank you, Phil, this was for you. Thank you for showing me your city. I love you.
I’ve barely had time to think about how proud I am of myself because it just seems like, idk, it’s just me, you know? But I was so worried this wouldn’t happen for so many reasons, and I managed to overcome all of it to finish all 13.1 miles (and then some). The running is one thing, that’s fun, but I’m most proud for getting through everything leading up to it.
Idk, the full might be in my future someday
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Flatbush Avenue Station, Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues, Brooklyn, NY, 1907.
The Brooklyn Station of the Long Island Railroad connected the LIRR to The IRT and BMT subway lines, as well as The Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railroad. Originally connecting to South Ferry, Brooklyn via the Cobble Hill Tunnel until that was closed in 1861, when the station became known as the Atlantic Terminal.
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On Shirley Polykoff, the woman who wrote the Clairol campaign, "Does she or doesn't she?" for hair dye:
"Once, in the days when she had her own advertising agency; she was on her way to Memphis to make a presentation to Maybelline and her taxi broke down in the middle of the expressway. She jumped out and flagged down a Pepsi-Cola truck, and the truck driver told her he had picked her up because he'd never seen anyone quite like her before. “Shirley would wear three outfits, all at once, and each one of them would look great,” Dick Huebner, who was her creative director, says. She was flamboyant and brilliant and vain in an irresistible way, and it was her conviction that none of those qualities went with brown hair. The kind of person she spent her life turning herself into did not go with brown hair. Shirley's parents were Hyman Polykoff, small-time necktie merchant, and Rose Polykoff, housewife and mother, of East New York and Flatbush, by way of the Ukraine. Shirley ended up on Park Avenue at Eighty-second. “If you asked my mother ‘Are you proud to be Jewish?' she would have said yes,” her daughter, Alix Nelson Frick, says. “She wasn't trying to pass. But she believed in the dream, and the dream was that you could acquire all the accoutrements of the established affluent class, which included a certain breeding and a certain kind of look. Her idea was that you should be whatever you want to be, including being a blonde.”
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