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Every low-budget, office-less blog needs its unofficial home-in-a-café. For the past, oh, seven months, Ditmas Park’s Vox Pop has been the place where we get together, caffeinate and let the money-saving ideas flow. And we like being surrounded by dog-eared copies of revolutionary manifestos. But apparently, the café’s anti-big brother ethos extends to taxes too (what good anarchist pays taxes?), because Vox Pop has been shuttered by the G-men.

The Ditmas Park Blog reports that the five-year old Cortelyou Road café was closed early this week by the NYS Dept. of Taxation and Finance for accrued back taxes. Vox Pop’s manager told the blog that the taxes are part of the café’s “legacy debt,” incurred under its founder and former CEO who left the café early this year. Read the rest of this entry »

This might be the biggest Manhattan-to-Brooklyn nod since Miranda and Steve crossed the river on Sex and the City: The Daily News reports today that a West Village restaurant One if by Land, Two if by Sea has offered its own model Statue of Liberty as a replacement for the eight-foot lady liberty replica stolen from the Ditmas Park café Vox Pop on June 21. Read the rest of this entry »