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Archive for February, 2009
Two plastic swans study soy sauce package
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, cartoon, new yorker, photography, soy sauce, swans on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Pummelos “r” still in season (pommelos, too)
Posted in Food, tagged brooklyn, citrus, february, grapefruit, photography, pommelo, pummelo, strange fruit on February 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
No, I tell you, it’s not just an overpriced grapefruit! And you had better enjoy them now because the citrus season ain’t hanging around 4ever and two months from now you don’t want to be thinkin about that pommelo you forgot to eat back in February.
View from Smith & 9th
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged 8th st, brooklyn, gowanus, nyc subway, park slope, photography, smith and 9th, subway on February 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conveniently, there’s a hole in the chainlink fence on the Smith and 9th Street subway platform, so I stuck my hand through and snapped a picture. Uphill, in Park Slope, looks like there’s a party going on.
Another happy shopper
Posted in Food, Misc, tagged 8th ave, brooklyn, chinatown, eggplant, neon, photography, tomato, whole foods on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The produce doesn’t look too happy, put it’s on par with the winter tomatoes and Japanese eggplant I saw this morning at a NYC Whole Foods, and a fraction of the price.
Brooklyn’s Chinatown is a bustling, well-lit place. Its commercial zone is concentrated in the 50’s and 60’s along Eighth Avenue.
Home baked at the Americana Diner
Posted in Food, tagged 7th ave, americana, brooklyn, diner, home baked, leatherette, lunch, photography, restaurant on February 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Next time I’m at 7th Ave. and 65th Street, I’m going to the Americana Diner so I can sit at the scalloped lunch counter, and I’m ordering coffee and a piece of cake. Leatherette swivel chairs make me kinda happy, and the desserts look fresh, though I suspect the Americana’s definition of home baked might [...]
Snow-capped letters
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, cold, font, ice, photography, wind, winter, wool on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The other night, as a freezing wind whipped around me and mocked my wool coat, I was feeling an affinity with this sidewalk freezer. Winter is going on much too long. For distraction, I contemplated the snow-capped letters spelling out ICE. I think we would all be happier (year-round) if descriptive fonts like this were [...]
I know enough about this fruit
Posted in Food, tagged brooklyn, curiosity, fruit, ft hamilton pkwy, photography, potato, strange fruit on February 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
They are orange-yellow, the size of an Idaho potato, come from Chile, and remind me of a tropical fish. These fruits are also covered all over with sharp spines that demand to be touched. The only other thing I know about them is that they cost $4.99 apiece and won’t be coming home with me. [...]
Ye olde Pontiac
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, car, fire call box, lemans, photography, pontiac, sidewalk on February 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This car may be a Pontiac LeMans from the 1970’s, I’m not positive. Nor could I explain why there is a piece of foam under the car’s front tires, or why the fire and police call box is tethered to one-way sign with a few pieces of string. The old-style fire call box is cast [...]
The last smokestack
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, con ed, corcoran, dumbo, gentrification, manhattan bridge, photography, smokestack, vinegar hill on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
It’s funny, the things people get sentimental about. There used to be five Con Ed smokestacks in Vinegar Hill; now there are two (I think). They look okay from a distance – not totally unphotogenic, but not necessarily lovable. Vinegar Hill is a small area wedged between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. [...]
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged 13th ave, brooklyn, car 54, cruiser, drop a dime, photography, police car, ride, television on February 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The price of dropping a dime on someone has gone up to 25 cents, but with the pay phone next to to the police car, it’s never been easier. Or, you could just turn to the putt-putt car and yell, “Toody, Muldoon, Car 54, where are you!!”
Kiddie rides in the shape of animals, helicopters, and [...]
