Barclays Center, behind the fence

I’m looking for Neville, Will Smith’s character in I am Legend. He’s here behind the chainlink fence with some roving dog creatures. It’s ironic that the Barclays Center, under construction, also appears like an apocalyptic set.

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Fence painting in Coney Island

The fence says Post No Bills; it says nothing about surreal painted scenes and wordplay. A new building is going up across from the subway terminal. I doubt the storefronts will be as interesting as these paintings on plywood.

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Not in my backyard

Right now, it’s impossible to tell what is going to rise up from this muddy construction site. It’s on a block of garages of car businesses, but it could be housing.

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At night, follow the stripes

These orange and white barriers were set up on the edge of a road to create a pedestrian walkway while construction is blocking the sidewalk.

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Forget the alibi

Attention dwindles with multiple signs, no? They need to add some warnings for the workers about the Gowanus Canal, which is by the work site:  Don’t touch the water and don’t breathe the air.

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Crane @ Atlantic Yards

That crane is huge, a reminder of the magnitude of the Atlantic Yards project. Steel was erected for the first time last week, and the developers are saying that the arena will open the summer of 2012. I predict that customer service at the Atlantic Mall Pathmark will still be lousy and Forest City Ratner is going to try to make the local hot dog vendors disappear.

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Flatbush & Fifth (blue walkway)

Flatbush and Fifth Avenues: unlike many places in the five boroughs, they aren’t rushing the holiday decorations around here.

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An old fashioned arrow

Cut out of plywood, painted red, and nailed to a construction wall, this arrow caught my attention. I noticed it currently serves no purpose other than decoration, though maybe in the near past it guided pedestrians through the site.

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The old Intl. Longshoremen’s Assn. Building

340 Court Street was built by the International Longshoremen’s Association, when dockworkers lived in Carroll Gardens, then in the 1990’s was sold to Long Island College Hospital. In 2007, the Clarett Group bought the blue and white building, razed it, started construction in 2008. The construction, expensive housing – townhouses and maisonettes – was not popular in the neighborhood. Work stopped in 2008, and with the exception of a couple days, has not resumed. The blue plywood and viewing windows are similar to another stalled  construction site, this time in Manhattan.

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Work on Dumbo park

Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo was hot, off-and-on sunny, and smelled like low tide, so I walked north and was happy to see that another section of the waterfront will be accessible before too long. This construction site is neater and cleaner than many NY kitchens I’ve been in. A Circle Line boat is visible going down the river.

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