Observed arrival · 2026-10-24
The Brooklyn Gazette: scaffolding, now landmarked
A fictional newspaper serves up Brooklyn satire in a front-page story about sidewalk scaffolding granted landmark status after 19 years.
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- Readers of Brooklyn-flavored civic satire
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- The fictional masthead claims “Independent & inconvenient since 1898” and labels the edition Vol. CXXVIII · No. 294.
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The page gives its fictional paper a full issue apparatus: Vol. CXXVIII · No. 294, a Thursday date, and a price line offering “50¢ or one oat cortado.” Sections include Borough Watch, City Life, Culture & Transit, and Classifieds. The lead story is datelined Williamsburg and credited to Edith Stoop, whose correspondent title is “Things That Never End.”
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