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Brooklyn. If Manhattan is the heart of New York City, then Brooklyn is the soul. If Manhattan is the city that never sleeps, Brooklyn is that city that always chills. Brooklyn accents New York's landscape with the remnants of the old school Italian mafia, a Judaic core, and a general mishmash of hustlers at its core. What do they all have in common? A love for reefer. A more laid-back, stress-free environment for stoners, thanks to its more suburban feel, New York's largest borough is basically the Indica of New York. While Brooklyn may lack the endless amount of head shops and delivery services of Manhattan, it makes up for it with a grittier, more subversive weed culture. Simply put, you can't roll through Bushwick or Williamsburg without the loud scent of cannabis permeating through the air. From Notorious BIG to Jay Z to Mos Def and many many more, hip hop and Kush have both played a heavy roll in influencing Brooklyn's finest artists. Known for its divine pizza joints and brownstone stoops, finding the good stuff is a matter of knowing the right people in Brooklyn. Home to Spike Lee and the setting of many his films, Brooklynites are known to Do the Right Thing: stay blazed.

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Cabling : A way of getting down the block without having your feet touch the ground. Not a practice we're familiar with, but it sounds like fun. Brooklyn native John Malar describes it like this: "In my neck of Brooklyn, where the back part of two backyards lined up, there were what we called "cables" running along telephone poles that went from one end of the block to the other. They weren't really cables. They were more like piping, that held wires of some sort, I think. Anyhow, we used to cable (or go cabling) using these cables. You cabled by hanging from a section of cable and traversing it hand over hand. Cabling was part of trying to go from one end of the block to the other without ever touching the ground.. You did this by walking along the back edge of a garage roof, walking along the top of a fence, or by cabling--whatever it took. The physical part was the easy part. The hard part was avoiding detection by the neighbors whose yards you were trespassing in."


Brooklyn Slang