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Entries Tagged as 'Missed Connections'

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Jumped on the Tracks

April 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Jumped on the Tracks

Ah, Sunday, the day we turn to our Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connection. Once again, the Missed Connections take us to the subway as they so often do, but this one is not like the other MC’s about passing glances traded from seats on the train or on the platform: Thurs your phone flew on to […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Subway · Sunset Park

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist Bonus: It (Could Have) Happened on the D

April 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist Bonus: It (Could Have) Happened on the D

We have no idea what this is (other than short fiction), but we came across it and we liked it, so here it is: It all happened on the Queens bound D – m4w (Bay Ridge) It all happened on the Queens bound D. She was searching for a minimally invasive emotional relationship and he […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Cortez the Killer?

March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Cortez the Killer?

We often eschew the stranger postings on the festival of passing ships known as Craigslist Missed Connections, yet there was something compellingly weird about this one. It’s not a “missed” connection per se so much as it seems to be a connection that went awry: Vasiliki: HE CAME DANCING ACROSS THE WATER, CORTEZ, CORTEZ….. – […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Got You Busted

March 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Got You Busted

We’ve picked to items for our weekly Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. They are oddly related in a first or second cousins kind of way. One involves an odd arrest at the Jay Street station and the other has as its focus a kumquat thief at Union Market in Park Slope: You got arrested Jay St […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Park Slope · Subway

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Were Going on Kent Avenue

March 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Were Going on Kent Avenue

It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for our weekly Brooklyn Missed Connection. We don’t the guy that posted today’s selection is actually seeking the female in question, but one never knows what can come of such situations: Peeing on the street S 1st and Kent – m4w – 30 As I turned into S1 and […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Williamsburg

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Was the S&M Keynote Speaker

March 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: I Was the S&M Keynote Speaker

Oh, Sunday Brookyn Craigslist Missed Connections, we do love you sometimes. We will say nothing about this weeks selection, except to present it: Attendees from impromptu seminar on S&M held by 7 min mile runner – w4m – 28 Searching for attendees of an impromptu seminar that took place last Saturday March 1 in bed-stuy. […]

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Tags: Bed-Stuy · Missed Connections

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist Bonus: Staring on the L Train

March 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist Bonus: Staring on the L Train

We know that we’ve had a lot of Sunday Missed Connections material from the L Train recently, but we couldn’t pass up this string of posts about “why guys just stare on the L train.” It started with this: why do guys just stare on the L train? – w4m i don’t get it. why […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Drunks, Dialectics & Lust on the L

March 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

For our Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection this week, we again turn our attention to the L Train, starting with the dude who was passed out and could have ended up in (gasp) Canarsie: To the Girl Who Woke Me Up on the L Train – m4wIt was close to 5 in the morning when you […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Miles, Twilight Zone & Timothy Leary on the L

February 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

We don’t know what was up on the L Train on Thursday, but clearly something was in the air. In looking for our weekly Sunday Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, we found these two posts that were made with the same 24-hour time span: Twilight zone serenade on the L train Thurs Eve – w4m – […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Almost Killed Me, But You’re Hot

February 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment

When a man notices a woman, it doesn’t matter that she almost ran him down when fleeing a bar. Attraction is attraction. The evidence is right here in our Brooklyn Missed Connection of the week, which comes to us from Bay Ridge: You almost ran me over!!! – m4w – 38 I noticed you last […]

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Tags: Bay Ridge · Missed Connections

Bklink: Missed Connection PSA

February 17th, 2008 · Comments Off on Bklink: Missed Connection PSA

“I am looking for a woman who marched in the Mermaid Parade in 2007. White, early-mid thirties, light brown hair, VERY PREGNANT. She’d painted her belly to look like the planet Earth. My friend took a gorgeous picture of her and I am DYING to use it for a photo/visual art project I’m producing, but […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Shortlink

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Vortex of Lust in Aisle 3

February 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Vortex of Lust in Aisle 3

Our Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection this week isn’t so much about a Missed Connection as it is about wanting to make a connection at the Steve’s C-Town on Ninth Street in Park Slope. Here it is: all the sexual tension at C town – m4w – 36is it me, or does everyone who shops at […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Park Slope

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Stole My Coat / You Turned in My Clutch

February 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Stole My Coat / You Turned in My Clutch

Talk about Yin and Yang. We found two Brooklyn Missed Connection ads that were posted yesterday that are very different sides of the same coin. One is to someone that stole someone’s coat at Union Pool in Williamsburg. The other is to someone that turned in someone’s clutch at Union Pool in Williamsburg. First, the […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Williamsburg

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Lost & Found

January 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Lost & Found

This week’s Sunday Brooklyn Missed Connection is more of a lost & found item than a missed connection in the strictest sense, but there’s something about it that appealed to us, typos and all: throwing stuff off of bridges i was wondering aroudn NYC. i am a traveling kid that was exporing williamsburg area. and […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Williamsburg

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Deja Vu All Over Again

January 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Deja Vu All Over Again

We return to that hot spot of lust and organic products, if not Brooklyn Missed Connections–the Park Slope Food Coop–for this week’s top choice, which amuses in a subtle way: Park Slope Food Coop – Wed – Coconut- milk-buying Nursing Student – w4m – 30 Maybe a minute or so into our conversation (I was […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Dodged & I Missed

January 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Dodged & I Missed

Recently, we had a bocce-related Sunday Brooklyn CL Missed Connection. Today, we have a dodgeball-related one: Missed connection with your head in dodgeballThrew a dodgeball at you at Thursday night’s game and it narrowly missed your head. Felt bad about it so i bought you a beer. Are you going to play in the Williamsburg […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: From New Year’s Eve

January 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: From New Year’s Eve

There are many Brooklyn Missed Connections that happened on New Year’s Eve, which may be one of the most biggest annual missed connections days of them all. There are 29 Brooklyn Missed Connections on Craigslist that mention New Year’s and 14 that say NYE. Here are two, from Williamsburg and Greenpoint, that we think go […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Bocce Balled

December 30th, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Bocce Balled

It’s Sunday, so we turn again to our Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. This week we not only have our first Bocce Missed Connection, but our first Bocce Injury Missed Connection. Here it is: Hit in the face with a bocci ball? – m4w – 24 We were at a bar on union street in brooklyn, […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Lust at "Park Slop" Coop

December 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Lust at "Park Slop" Coop

Ah, Sunday, the day when we turn our attention to that interesting world known as Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connections. We’ve seen Missed Connections from the Park Slope Food Coop from time to time, but this week we have the ultimate “Park Slop” Food Coop Missed Connection: To the girls at the Park Slop Food Coop […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Park Slope

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Burglarized Us

December 16th, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You Burglarized Us

For this week’s Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection, we again turn to crime: to: the greenpoint burglar I know you were probably just dropping by for a quick visit, but I think you may have taken a few things by accident. We seem to be missing seven computers and some other assorted electronics, some diamond and […]

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Tags: Greenpoint · Missed Connections

Williamsburg Missed Connection: Please Call…

December 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Williamsburg Missed Connection: Please Call…

Normally, we run a Missed Connection post from Craigslist on Sunday, but our Greenpoint correspondent sent this item our way from Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. Michael, if you’re out there, do call.

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Tags: Missed Connections · Williamsburg

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: To the Person Who Broke Into My Car…

December 9th, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: To the Person Who Broke Into My Car…

On Sunday, we turn to that interesting slice of life known as the Brooklyn Missed Connection on Craiglist. We have opted not to feature the serial poster who posted ads about Bedbugs and Herpes three times in the last week (the latest being this one) and is likely also the person responsible for gems like […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Williamsburg

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Saw You at "Sturbucks" in "Parkslop"

December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Saw You at "Sturbucks" in "Parkslop"

It wasn’t easy deciding on this week’s Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connection. We considered the one from dodgeball, because it was the first one we’ve seen concerning hitting someone in the head with a ball. We also thought about the one for the female on the subway with the Smiths tote bag, for obvious Morrissey reasons. […]

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Tags: Missed Connections · Park Slope

Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: Subway Come Ons

November 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The subway and Brooklyn Craigslist Missed Connections are perfect together. This week, we noted that there were 56 subway Missed Connections in Brooklyn, so we settled on a Brooklyn post that raises a vital New York City Missed Connection question: How do you talk to a female on the subway? (The same could pertain, we […]

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Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You’re Hotter Than Bloomberg

November 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Disconnected in Brooklyn on Craigslist: You’re Hotter Than Bloomberg

It’s Sunday, which means we turn our attention once again to that sad-funny-strange world known as Craigslist Brooklyn Missed Connections. We settled on this one because it proves that missed connections can happen anywhere and at any time, including watching Mayor Bloomberg talk about Coney Island zoning at Gargiulo’s Restaurant: Brooklyn Coney Island Revitalization last […]

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Tags: coney island · Missed Connections