Jeez, driver’s ed was so long ago I don’t remember what square yellow signs pointed upward mean. If a driver slows down to read the stickers, that’s got to be a good thing. (Don’t consider this an endorsement of graffiti, though.)
Archive for July, 2009
No surface left untouched
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, flatbush ave, fools' names and fools' faces, photography, traffic signs on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peaches from outer space
Posted in Food, tagged 3 guys from brooklyn, brooklyn, fruit store, ft hamilton pkwy, peaches, photography, strange fruit on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Some places, these are called UFO or saturn peaches. They’ve been around for hundreds of years in China, but only became popular over the last decade in the US. White-fleshed and with a delicate flavor, consumers are willing to pay more for these novel, flattened fruits.
Mess everywhere at Jay Street
Posted in Transportation, tagged a train, borough hall, brooklyn, f train, jay st, nyc subway, photography, token booth on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This used to be a stairway. The spraypainted CLOSED message seems redundant, given the half-inch plywood that will stop even the most oblivious of subway riders.
No one’s trying to pay for a ride at what used to be a token booth.
Expect delays at Jay Street, not with the trains, but moving around the station.
But the birds might go hungry
Posted in Misc, tagged birdfeed, birds, brooklyn, leif ericson park, photography, pigeons, rats, rats with wings on July 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
That little chickadee is looking angry. What the sign is not saying is that if you feed the birds (including the rats with wings), then the real rats are going to come and scavenge the leftovers. That’s why they don’t want you feeding our feathered friends.
Spying on the police
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, fast food, gas station, mobil on the run, nypd, photography, police, surveillance on July 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just an average citizen am I, observing the police through the cover of a two bushes. They are parked in front of the gas station convenience store. A place of neither loiterers nor malingerers, the officers are probably just shopping for snacks.
Manhattan Beach before the storm
Posted in Misc, tagged beach, brooklyn, manhattan beach, photography, rain, thunderstorm on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The afternoon was hazy at Manhattan Beach. When thunder boomed and lightning was visible offshore, the lifeguards waved everyone in. The storm moved quickly. It’s sort of funny to see bathing suit-clad people running in the pouring rain, trying to find a dry place to take cover.
Eurotrippin’ @ Korzo
Posted in Food, tagged beer, brooklyn, eastern european, eurotrip, fifth ave, Greenwood, korzo, park slope south, photography, pierogi on July 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
They decided Eurotrip didn’t sound right and was sending a confusing message for a restaurant serving stylized Eastern European chow. Now the place is called Korzo. At Fifth Avenue and 20th Street, it’s off doing its own thing, in the neighborhood called Greenwood by some (a.k.a., Park Slope Really South or Sunset Park North?). I [...]
Really grassy grass
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, dahill rd, grass, photography, playground on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What is the truest expression of grass? A tufty, unruly rectangle or a perfectly mown front yard? The spring rain and city’s neglect caused this patch to go haywire. You could lose a soccer ball or a small child in there. It was to be an ephemeral pleasure, though; the city hacked the grass down [...]
Fourth Avenue has the barriers now
Posted in Transportation, tagged brooklyn, photography, fourth ave, smith and 9th, f train, nyc subway, g train, trackwork on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Those modular panels made of two-by-fours and plastic mesh have crept down the track from Smith and Ninth to the Fourth Avenue stop on the F line (and G now, too) . The wooden framework looks like a peace sign bisected by a stepladder; it appears sufficient to protect track workers from debris that a [...]
The side of a funeral home
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, funeral home, mcdonald ave, photography, pitta on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From the front, this funeral parlor is a bit forlorn. The bush is meant to fancy things up. I like the dashes of color in the photo: the arrow, the bush and trees, the traffic cone, and the brick apartment houses.
