Graffiti painted over, several times, with blue paint; new graffiti.
Archive for January, 2009
Moody blue wall
Posted in Misc, tagged blue, brooklyn, graffiti, photography on January 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Are those tall shelves safe? (är det högväxt bordlägger kassaskåp?)
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, fotografi, furniture, ikea, photography, red hook, shopping, swedish, translation on January 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
You don’t know who reads this stuff. On the off chance you’re from Ikea headquarters, let me share my (automatically translated) thoughts :
Du behöver tio objekt, eller mindre fodrar!
Really! We are impatient New Yorkers who go all squirrelly when we have three things in our basket and every line is filled with people setting up [...]
Fort Hamilton Parkway
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, fort hamilton, photography, sunset on January 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It was a very blue sunset.
Idle mail trucks
Posted in Misc, tagged 11217, atlantic ave, brooklyn, mail trucks, photography, post office, recession on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The post office had $2.8 billion deficit last year and volume is way down, so now they are thinking of cutting mail delivery one day a week, maybe Tuesday.
Sunset Park after dark
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, hipster, neon, night, photography, polynesian, pork, porkpie, sunset park, tiki, yul brynner on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Sunset Park, a multi-culti neighborhood, with Latin-Chinese restaurants and a tiki bar. But what is tiki?
Tiki is mainly about the idea of tiki – not Polynesian culture or history, but fruity drinks, torches, stylized drinking cups, and the Trader Vic’s aesthetic of the 1950’s and 60’s.*
Bklyn’s Tiki Bar is trying to be upscale. Collars [...]
Luncheonette @ Smith & 9th
Posted in Food, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, f line, g line, gowanus, ind, luncheonette, photography, smith and 9th, subway on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last chance for food before entering the Smith & 9th Street station on the F and G lines. Built in 1933, the stop had to accommodate tall masted ships passing underneath on the Gowanus Canal. At 91 feet above the street, it remains the highest elevated stop in the NYC subway system. That’s a lot [...]
7-11, there on the right
Posted in Misc, tagged 7-eleven, brooklyn, convenience, fifth ave, flipflop, junk food, photography, windshield on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere in suburbia, not so many summers ago, I lost a flipflop to the floor of a 7-Eleven near the Slurpee machines. As far as I know, it’s still glued there. The incident ruined, finally, my already bad relationship with the convenience store. Here in the metropolis, shouldn’t we support our neighborhood mom & pop [...]
Court Street construction
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, construction, court street, mexican food, photography, reno, yogurt on January 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The past few years the businesses at 111 – 115 Court Street building, with the exception of Fresco Tortillas, have been turning over like pancakes. The building is set to undergo some, uh, procedures. Store are cleared out, as are rental units upstairs. I’m guessing gut reno, expensive coops or condos, but given the economy [...]
Oh my diner
Posted in Food, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn heights, cadman, cheesecake, Court St, danish, diner, french fry, photography, pie, waffle on January 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Cold weather means lingering in restaurants, like this gigantic diner, the Park Plaza, at Cadman Plaza on Court Street, Brooklyn Heights. For each of the hundred of seats, there is a matching pastry or sweet. Everywhere you look there is a case lined with cakes, muffins, cookies, cheesecakes, and danish. They even have petit fours! [...]
