It seems like it’s been raining a lot lately, but the weather reporters say we should have had five more inches of precipitation by this time of year.
Archive for March, 2009
It was a dark and foggy night
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, fog, mcdonald ave, nighttime, photography, rain, weather on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll always call it the Williamsburgh Bank Building
Posted in Misc, tagged bank, brooklyn, condo, dentist, flatbush ave, fort greene, fourth ave, hanson pl, landmark, photography on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The developers who condo-ized this landmark, the tallest building in Brooklyn, would like it to be known to as One Hanson Place, but that’s not going to happen. In our hearts, it will remain the Williamsburgh Bank Building. Built in 1927, the 37-story building was at the time comparable to the skyscrapers in Manhattan, and [...]
If you see something, like the Jack of Clubs…
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, card, gum, if you see something, knave, lancelot, photography, royalty, sidewalk on March 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By all means, say something. A single playing card was seen on the sidewalk, either missing its 51 friends or planning an escape. The jack of clubs is about the lowliest of the face cards, on par with the jack of spades, neither significant in popular card games nor culture (like the jack of hearts). [...]
Tasty likker now on sale
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, fourth ave, liquor, neon, nyc subway, park slope, photography, plexiglas, sale, wine on March 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Everything tastes better when it’s been marked down. This store, at the corner of Fourth Ave. and Tenth Street, by the subway, is like an NYC liquor store museum. Management changed two years ago, and while the plexiglas, once there for safety, remains, the door between the front and the back has been removed. Shoppers [...]
Pagoda steeple
Posted in Transportation, art & photography, tagged bqe, brooklyn, carroll gardens, church, gaudi, highway, pagoda, photography, scaffolding, traffic on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wanted the traffic on the BQE to slow down so I could get a better picture of this church steeple undergoing repairs. An overcaffeinated person with a ball of wire channeled Gaudi, tossed in a hint of Kyoto, and made something nice to look at from the highway.
Just plain neon
Posted in Food, tagged brooklyn, court street, cuisine, Food, neon, photography, restaurant, yemen on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The neon, like the decor of Yemen Cuisine, on Court Street near Atlantic Avenue, is about as simple as it comes. The only hint of personality comes from the two green words on the front window arching like a pair of eyebrows. There’s no French connection here, either; cuisine simply means food. On the menu [...]
I checked, the paint is dry
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, church ave, f train, nyc subway, photography, subway, wet paint on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Include me among the 75 percent of people who touch the surface next to a Wet Paint sign. This sign, obviously being a close relative of the Wet Paint sign, had the same effect. My hand automatically reached out, index finger leading the way, to see what was going on. Unlike most Wet Paint signs, [...]
What is the plural of crocus?
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, cement, crocus, flowers, lawn ornament, photography, spring on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Signs of spring: those yellow, purple, and white flowers that start appearing in March … crocuses or croci, call them what you will. The cement bunnies had to endure the winter, but they look just right with the flowers.
