My Bed-Stuy

Published: September 2, 2007, 3:56 pm

Tags: labor day, bedford stuyvesant, family matters

It's Labor Day weekend and today is family cookout day in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The block a lot of my relatives live on won "Greenest Residential Block in Brooklyn" this year, thanks due largely to them, who put in an huge amount of time and effort coordinating the project -- and it shows (see coverage in The Gothamist). It's even more "green" this year; the flowers are crazy, with large barrels of them lining the sidewalks and cascading down staircases of people's brownstones. My aunt said that, unlike down South, they've had tons of rain up here. (We have never watered our minimal NC lawn -- and it's obviously wasteful to do so during a drought. I know in Raleigh they have been levying fines on homeowners who have been watering their lawns. What is wrong with people?! The flipping grass will grow back.)I lived on this block in the mid to late 1980s; this part of the neighborhood is a designated historic district called Stuyvesant Heights. All of my late

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