the Richard Martin experience: is it the end of Camelot?


The polls have closed, and the people have spoken.

An overwhelming majority of our readers (72%) desire solid Richard Martin blogging, with a robust 15% of you voting for serious blogging – edging out ‘whore blogging’ by just 2 votes, at 11%.

Two of you [understandably] voted for no blogging whatsoever.

Sadly, as with all of life’s great disappointments, no sooner did Richard Martin’s eccentricities establish Bay Ridge among New York’s ‘weird but true’ – than did Martin’s controversial trash cans return to their lawful curbside mantle.

With his signs now gone – the glass entry door they once adorned clean, and streak free…

It’s as if all evidence of the “stupid, retarded sissy” era has been erased.

Martin, dubbed the cranky Bay Ridge super, while still believed to live in the building – it’s speculated he’s been asked by his employers to permanently remove his abrasive signage.

postcards from Bay Ridge: appetite for destruction?


While not nearly as devistating as last week’s fatal east-side crane collapse; the collapse of a cinderblock retaining wall which lead to the destruction of a Bay Ridge cancer treatment center, Leading Edge Radiation Oncology, was nothing short of an absolute failure of good building practices and diligent building enforcement.

Seen here: someone marks the scene of last month’s building collapse with a prophetic bill.

Preservationists get Bay Rizz’d


Bay Ridge filmmaker Michael Rizzo, co-founder of production house Paxen Films, stirs up awareness at the last Committee to Save the Green church Rally.

Paxen Films is a self-described crew of: ‘provincially low-end dirt bags… a rare breed of species born and raised in Brooklyn… [and] elite comedy team that does short films, music videos, commercials and music production.’

They produce the Bay Ridge-centric series of mock/pseudo doc shorts known as ‘Bay Rizz’ – such as the one we posted last year.

John’s Famous Deli posts Rover’s bills

In the blogosphere, knowing when your blog has ‘arrived’ can be all about perception.

But so far nothing says you’ve truly arrived, like having John’s Famous Deli of Stillwell Ave proudly displaying your blogpost!

Thanks to the watchful eye of a loyal reader – who was naturally in the middle of ordering John’s signature Roast Beef, Mozzarella and Onions – we have this shot of our original post on the arrival of Brooklyn’s c’apo di tutti coppacolla’ to Bay Ridge!


from johnsfamousdeli.com:

John’s Famous Deli has been a Brooklyn favorite since 1967. We have been serving Brooklyn patrons for 40 years. We’re proud and thankful to all of our patrons and we look forward to your continued support. Thank you! Sincerely, R. Cicero

Bay Ridge’s Matt Lysiak uncovers real scoop on Kristen-the-Whore’s loss of sexual innocence

Is it possible Queens’ infamous Kalua Strip Club has a stricter door policy than Joe Francis’ Girls Gone Wild Tour?

That all depends on whether allegations made by Ashley Alexandre Dupre’s lawyer, Don Buchwald, as to the wayward runaway, turned high priced hooker’s age are true.

Yesterday, Bay Ridge’s own Daily News reporter, Matthew Lysiak, was himself a headliner; first on 770AM’s Curtis Sliwa, and later that day on MSNBC where he was grilled on reports that it was him, and not as initially reported one-time perp/ smut-0maven CEO of GGW, Joe Francis, that connected Kristen-the-Whore [Ashley Dupre] to the the Girls Gone Wild video enterprise.

Joe Francis quickly withdrew a 1 million dollar offer to Ashley Dupre after being tipped off by a “reporter” [later revealed on Curits Sliwa's program to be Bay Ridge's own Matthew Lysiak] who discovered Ashley’s relationship with GGW in the course of trying to pin down her actual age.

Lysiak was later thanked by the porn-perp for his research by giving exclusives to TMZ and rival publication NYPost’s Page Sex Six.

According to sources close to Francis’ media empire, Joe Francis has not only admitted to having sex (numerous times) with Ashely Youmans [Kristen the Whore] – but those close to Francis say he remembers her often, and fondly as:

“Absolutely the best 18 year old he’s ever had sex with… she was so much hotter back then, than she is now… but she was absolutely a total slut, she had sex with the camera guy… and you’d be glad you had her back then, rather than getting Eliot Spitzer’s sloppy one-thousandths.

If prison is, as some say, a revolving door; Joe Francis may not want to get too comfortable breathing that clean, ‘free air’ – or NOT being repeatedly raped by men.

As fate would have it, Kristen- the- Whore’s attorney, Don Buchwald, is saying that his client who was apparently road-ass for Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis, the grips, food services, etc – was NOT, as Francis thought, eighteen years old!

Don Buchwald issued a statement saying that Ashley was [grab a chair] only Seventeen at the time she signed her consent form.

Ashley’s age, and the fact that she was caught drinking a beer not sanctioned by Girls Gone Wild producers, may have had something to do with the abrupt end to her career being used as a specimen cup by GGW enterprises.

Joe Francis, 18 is NOT your lucky number!

more from: Gothamist

Chris Rock, ‘jail is fucked up’ (NSFW):

update: Bay Ridge’s Matt Lysiak on Curtis Sliwa: Lysiak breaks Ashley Dupre vid story. Girls Gone Wild screws local reporter.

As it would turn out, Ashley Dupre’s bubbly, not-so-bright demeanor is infectious – as Ashly, in semi-retirement, is still managing to screw people.

Stills from the Academy Award winning documentary film series, Girls Gone Wild have just surfaced as of late yesterday – thankfully burying a potential career ending video of Sex and the City star Kristin Davis, allegedly pulling an ‘Ashley Dupree.’

As it turns out – CEO of Girls Gone Wild, Joe Francis, just saved himself a Million dollar bounty for the “head” of disgraced Spitzer whore, Ashley[Kristen] Dupre, all thanks to a “news reporter,” who (according to Curtis Sliwa on 770Am) is Bay Ridge’s own Daily News reporter, Matt Lysiak. Apparently, Lysiak tipped the smut-maven off to the fact that Ashley was already on their 2005 Florida Girls Gone Wild video box.

According to sources, the Daily News had already been hot on the trail of Kristen’s proudest moments while in the course of investigating Kristen’s age, which, thanks to a comment on media site, Gawker, lead the Daily News to not only establish Kristen’s age, but lead the Daily News straight for the 2005 Girls Gone Wild vid – otherwise known as “Happy 18th Birthday, Ashley.”

According to sources close to Girls Gone Wild (who describe Joe Francis as a ‘loose canon’) the degenerate ex-con/CEO thanked the Daily News by screwing them out of the exclusive pics – opting to give exclusive rights to celeb-rag TMZ and Joe Francis’ best bud, Richard Johnson, at NYPost’s Page Six.

Francis changed his tune faster than Spitzer’s whore, Kristen, could say: “so, you want the sex or not‘ – backing off from earlier statements he made to the Associated Press where he’s quoted as saying he, himself, put researchers on the archive digital-cooze hunt for Dupre’s barely legal goods.

Today, according to Gothamist, where Joe Francis is reported as saying:

“Girls Gone Wild” discovered Dupré’s appearance in the archives after being asked about the video by a News reporter. Francis promptly pulled the lucrative offer to Dupré… “A Daily News reporter saved me a million bucks,” said Francis. “Mark that down as the first time a reporter ever did anything good for me.”

The degenerate piece of shit ex-con, who did time for videotaping underage girls engaging in sexual activity, because their equally degenerately retarded custodians saw nothing wrong with their high school [sophomores] going to Miami on a Greyhound Bus, called ‘The Girls Gone Wild Express,’ making all local stops to “WHORE-TOWN” – is currently due to stand trial for tax evasion.

You can see the ‘whore gone wild,’ here

In honor of what’s likely to be a lenghty prison sentence for Joe Francis…

The misunderstood genius of Richard Martin

New York tabloid darling and psychopathological curiosity, Richard Martin, continues to capture the attention of an adoring public by way of Gawker, via BeehiveHairdresser – thanks to yours truly.

Martin, whose poison pen letters to his building tenants have become famous throughout New York since going viral only a few weeks ago – has transcended local curiosity and become the stuff of Brooklyn legend.

In a neighborhood considered by many to be the ‘last true outpost’ in Brooklyn – whose only claim to ‘fame’ in the past 30 years has been Scott Baio and Tony Manero – Bay Ridge has come to embody more of the eccentricities of backward southern caricatures, than the raucous, tough blue collar concrete jungles of Brooklyn.

Reviled by some as ‘white trash,’ racist, xenophobic, if not just really fucking crazy – Richard Martin has, for better or worse, put Bay Ridge on the map.

more from Richard’s favorite ‘piece of shit paper,’ the Daily News [Daily News pic via beehivehairdresser]

St. Patty’s Day Massacre: NYC FUBAR’d, analysts blame irony. Richard Martin urges calm.

Just hours after a 30 story industrial boom toppled an East 51st street townhouse killing 7 people, and, in one of tragedy’s great ironies, taking with it longtime UES watering hole ‘FUBAR’ – stocks fell faster than disgraced Governor Eliot Spitzer’s pants in a DC hotel room with ‘good time girl’ Kristen the whore – as news that troubled NY investment bank, Bear Sterns, was in free-fall over balance sheets ODing on write-downs from mortgage backed securities.

Fortunately for the victims of this weekend’s horrifically freakish construction accident, the good people of Bear Stern’s are being thrown a lifeline by longtime NY IB rival, JPMorgan.

During overseas trading last night, the NYTimes reported the dramatic “Save the Children” takeover by JP Morgan, who will acquire the 87 yr old investment banking powerhouse for roughly $2 dollars per/share – or “about the price of a cup of coffee.”

In a rarely seen move by the Federal Reserve, chairman Ben Bernanke announced he would act aggressively to rescue New York’s crumbling financial services industry by underwriting JPMorgan’s deal with a 30 Billion dollar line of credit, while offering another discount rate cut of 1/4 point (to 3.25) – the 7th such cut since July of last year.

However, Bernanke wasn’t prepared to stop there.

The fed chairman announced another unorthodox move by the Central Bank saying, if need be, he’d allow the Federal Reserve to helicopter him over Manhattan and literally just throw bails of cash out over Wall Street to spur investor and consumer confidence.

Celebrity super and unofficial Mayor of Bay Ridge, Richard Martin, is urging calm.

In remarks outside his 3rd avenue offices, Martin had this to say:

I appreciate the additional actions taken by the Federal Reserve to enhance the stability, liquidity and orderliness of our markets… We’ve taken strong decisive action… these steps will provide financial institutions with greater assurance of access to funds.

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Bay Ridge’s crotchety super promises [dis]orderly transition, and the crotch seen ’round the world

At 4,300.00 per nut [and mounting legal fees], ‘Kristengoes down as the most expensive piece of Bridge and Tunnel ass in New York State history.

Kristen, seen here courtesy of SmokingGun.com, joins the ranks of other celebs who’ve had their whoredom become synonymous with the high seas.

Kristen’s MySpace Page, first uncovered yesterday by the New York Times, reveals an intimate portrait of a young aspiring musician, who, unlike those she counts among her many musical influences – such as Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra – would, sadly, only find instrumental notoriety playing the disgraced ex-Governor’s rusty-trombone.

In today’s New York Post, Kristen was asked that in this difficult time she not be viewed as a ‘monster’ – simply as the most exquisite piece of ass to ever come out of a trailer park in Bayonne, New Jersey.

Kristen wasted no time embracing her new found rise to international stardom, seen here hitching her wagon to the star of Bay Ridge’s own celebrity super, Richard Martin
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In brief remarks made prior to departing his 3rd avenue apartment, Martin said of his new companion and state scandal:

“I don’t give a shit. I hope this fucking whore can push a broom and wash my teeth… the people in this fucking building are nuttin’ but a bunch of filthy pigs… we’re goin’ to Home Depot to pick up those big black garbage bags… I’m putting my tenants in the bags, and the garbage in the apartments… let’s see how those filthy mutha-fucka’s like it then!”


As of this morning, reports are that ex-Governor Elior Spitzer has been officially kicked out of the marital bed he shared with wife, Silda Wall Spitzer, in their luxurious Manhattan apartment [sometimes crash pad under the name, Sheldon Bernstein] for over 20 years.

Publically, Silda is still seen standing faithfully by Eliot – despite the sharp rebuke of New York’s other great whore, Andrea Pyser.

The former first-lady of NY has given no indication she intends on actually divorcing the embattled ex Gov – at least until his current legal troubles are over.

more from: Gawker, Spitzer on Colbert Report night before Whore Tryst

Spitzer resigns, Richard Martin prepares for transition

It’s being reported that disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer officially announced his resignation from his Manhattan offices/bachelor-pad as of this morning.

Spitzer’s resignation will take effect Monday, at the request of Lt. Governor William Paterson, who insisted there be time for an orderly transition of Government – no doubt while Spitzer destroys evidence and pardons countless prostitutes.

Patterson’s poised to become New York’s first blind African-American Governor – a historic first for the State of New York, second only to having it’s 1st term sitting Governor ruin his entire political career because he tried to pay a hooker by check.

Senate Republican Leader Joe Bruno – seen high-fivin’ his way into an Albany briefing room this morning – had no comment for reporters on the Governor’s personal troubles.

Richard Martin has reportedly met with the Governor’s transition team and is fully prepared to resume his duties in carrying the mantle of tasteless tabloid fodder forward.

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