The bus out to Bay Ridge

NYC buses tend toward extremes: either fairly fast or slower than walking. This ride, a quick one, was curious for the one guy’s hair. I didn’t know people still put shapes on their scalps, other than at World Series time.

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Women’s salon styles (haircut chart)

Women don’t walk into a hair salon and point to a chart, as some men do, and say, “I’d like that one.” Haircut charts for women do exist; they are quite rare, however, and not often posted in the window. The hair-in-the-eyes picture, at top, is just confusing.

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Have a cardone

The growers in California would like you to know that this humble-looking vegetable is related to the artichoke. Cardone (or cardoon) is eaten in France and Italy, where it’s cut into pieces and boiled or fried. At Three Guys from Brooklyn, no one was touching the stuff.

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See Our New Look

A sign like that is an easy set-up: If this is supposed to be nice and new, I’m glad I don’t remember what this vegetable store was like before! Swinging bare bulbs and overturned milk crates don’t do much for atmosphere. The produce is cheap, though.

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Gray upon gray (outfit matches weather)

86th Street in Bay Ridge was actually a good place to shop after work yesterday. If the choice was between staying home and going out, getting wet and cold, and spending money, people did the sensible thing.

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Welcome to the car lot

Pick out a certified used car, though it’s hard to see through the chain link and the razor wire. Northern Bay Ridge is known for automotive businesses, fruits and vegetables, and subway tracks. Leif Ericson Park is also nearby.

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Steamy @ the tattoo parlor

What’s going on in there? Another day, we’d be able to look in and see things perhaps we’d rather not.

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Love in Brooklyn is…

Love is a velour track suit 24 hours a day and living inside a window case when there’s a snowstorm on the other side of the glass.

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Waffles, ice cream, & mad candy

Hinsch’s has been serving ice cream for more than sixty years, but word is, they’re coasting on the old school look in order to get away with ordinary food and service. It’s true that the words diner and outstanding are rarely used in the same sentence….

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Shopping on 86th Street

The post-holiday sales continue. Shoppers are out, but not crowding the stores. In Bay Ridge, the holiday decorations are still strung across the streets, but they don’t turn the lights on. That’s one way to delay the holiday clean-up.

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