Real Music & Real Estate . . .

Yiddishe Cup’s bandleader, Bert Stratton, is Klezmer Guy.
 

He knows about the band biz and – check this out – the real estate biz, too.
 

You may not care about the real estate biz. Hey, you may not care about the band biz. (See you.)
 

This is a blog with a gamy twist. It features tenants with snakes and skunks, and musicians with smoked fish in their pockets.
 

Stratton has written op-eds for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post.


 
 

COPS ARE FUNNY

by Bert Stratton

Cleveland cop Tommy Alusheff moonlighted as a comedian under the name Morey Cohen, which was a conflation of “Morey Amsterdam” and “Myron Cohen.”

Tommy Alusheff / Morey the Cop died in 2010. I knew him only by reputation. Morey wasn’t in the Sixth District — my old police beat. The funniest cop in the Sixth was Paul Falzone, who once told me, “I have eight minutes of material to Morey’s twelve. How can you tell Ronald McDonald at a nudist colony? He’s the one with sesame seed buns.”

Falzone ran for county sheriff and president of the patrolmen’s union, and didn’t win either. He eventually became police chief of Bratenahl, a suburb. In 2008 Cuyahoga County tried to put Falzone in jail for theft. Something about drugs and guns missing from the Bratenahl property room. Falzone was acquitted and sued Bratenahl for “humiliation.” That wasn’t funny.

stand up cops

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I had an op-ed about immigrants in the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

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3 comments

1 David Korn { 11.07.18 at 9:05 am }

Good piece — I hope it is factual. btw, I loved the piece in the WSJ. Keep it up.

2 Bert Stratton { 11.07.18 at 9:31 am }

David Korn: It’s a true story. All my stories are true, except the ones that don’t sound true.

3 Dave Rowe { 11.08.18 at 6:57 am }

The Sixth District also had a cop who wore a dog suit, Lou something-or-other, He didn’t bark much or bite.

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