First, LCD. I mean LSD. Now this. Can't we just do our drugs in peace!

No wonder they wouldn't answer the door!

Jeez. Way to be a responsible journalist, dude. We get enough crap just for existing. What happened to tipping the narc squad in secret instead of having to glorify yourself over it? Now he looks like a jerk, the neighbors hate him, and the druggies know who he is and where he lives. Not the brightest bulb in the pack, is he?

It's a crack home, thank you very much.

Just a little Fort Greene zeitgeist for the new homeowner. Has anyone given Toure a wok, or some feng shui candles?

Nothing says "crack house" like a nice, well-lit veranda (r.). If you look at the third floor of the townhouse, middle window, you will see Esmeralda Driggs Johnston IV looking out the window wondering if "that nice man is taking photos for Architectural Digest".

Ian, you going to do anything with the Editor's Note published today? The Times described a two semi-respectable lap-dance ladies as whores, but the ladies now insist they are not whores. Apparently the reporter never asked the ladies if they are, in fact, whores.

Reporting!!!, the process whereby young white individuals publicly reveal their ineptitude and prejudice.

Oh my fucking God this is what New York has become isn't it?
Home of the pissy wimpy complainers.I can remember when Fort Greene was all BLACK,not white middle class shits,and we're talking the 1990s here folks not the olden days!
Now I call Fort Greene Knightsbridge on Fulton because of all the posh English people who have moved in with Range Rovers and "nice" French bistros.
Please pass the vomit bag.

@MrInBetween:

"...The Times described two semi-respectable lap-dance ladies as whores..."

The Times probably meant that in the everyday sense that all sexually active women are whores.

@ADismalScience: And don't forget Jason Blair!

Actually,
that Toure' guy is black. He says it in the article.

@saxon212: You have something against English people?

@saxon212:

I think it was Spike Lee, oddly enough, who in the mid-80s first perceived Ft. Greene's gentrification potential.

As soon as 40 Acres & a Mule was on the scene, the advent of bruschetta was inevitable.

@MrInBetween: Sure thing.

@ADismalScience: Hey! That's not fair. Some of us reporters are, umm, not young.

I am English,but a naturalized American Citizen.I love English people,but I'm talking about a type here,and we all know them!

@saxon212:

The only English people I know in New York are those who live in the festively decorated SubZero boxes beneath the George Washington Bridge.

They all claim to be related to the Mitford sisters. But I think that's an outrageous lie.

@ADismalScience:

If you want to read more about Toure, a his wikipedia entry catalogues both his sense of entitlement and his "career."

Excerpt: "He has often evoked the participatory journalism of George Plimpton or Tom Wolfe, while, for example, playing high-stakes poker with Jay-Z, two-on-two basketball with Prince, one-on-one basketball with Wynton Marsalis, tennis with Jennifer Capriati, or writing illegal graffiti with known graffiti artists."

So... what's the over/under on Toure participating in the journalismism of his own bio?

So he's like a pedestrian douchebag version Hunter S. Thompson.

Thanks for clearing that up!

The age of the newspaper is almost over,what will all the douche bags do now?

@Hamud: They might be related to one or another of the Mitford sisters, but certainly not to all of them.

@flossy: Crack Townhouse... semantics.

Am I the only one who believes journalist have a professional responsibility to act like adults and not douche bag one-named celbutards?

@Hamud:

As you may know, he's since decamped to the Upper East Side.

@famousauthor:

Nancy?
Jessica?
Unity?
Diana?
Debo?

I think that's all of them.

@Seeräuber Jenny: And Pamela, who aspired, as a child, to be a horse (unlike a couple of others, who managed merely to be horses' asses).