For going on four years, the park, on Fifth Avenue and Third Street, has officially been named Washington Park, though the playground is still JJ Byrne Playground. In the middle of the park sits the Old Stone House, a reconstructed Dutch farmhouse that was central to the Battle of Brooklyn in the Revolutionary War. Now it’s a museum with its own website.

The door fascinates. The message, made of fragile tape, will probably hold out longer than one might expect.

The night sky is very visible from the Coney Island-bound platform of the Fourth Avenue F and G station. It’s pleasant, when it’s not raining or snowing. But when it’s coming down, everyone’s cursing the MTA and the prolonged construction work.

Nothing wrong with decorating the windows, but it’s three weeks until Valentine’s Day. When the Christmas decorations come down, a window can look so empty and sad. After Valentine’s there’s Easter, the 4th of July….

A surprising number of businesses still have Christmas decorations in their windows. This Chinese bakery is still promoting Summer Special Drink, and it’s 32 degrees out.

No one’s set foot in this lot for a couple days. There have been plenty of gray days this fall/winter, so I’m glad to have two inches of snow to lighten the scene up.

Green-Wood Cemetery was closed to visitors today because the roads were icy. A walk along the fence turned up an interesting found object, though. New Year’s Eve was three weeks ago, and today was the first real snow of the season.

They are advertising Brooklyn basketball in Midtown Manhattan. Now what the Nets need is a good record and for the Barclays Center to be completed.

Parents with young ‘uns, mark your calendars for the upcoming screenings. If you’re really lucky, the theater will show a grown-up movie (non-animated) and no one will bug you or harrumph when your infant starts making sounds.

Ghost bikes are memorials placed where cyclists were hit or killed on the street. Here, at the corner of 59th Street and Ft. Hamilton Parkway, a pizza delivery man was killed by a hit-and-run rental truck in May of 2011. Police caught the driver a block away.