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Coming & mostly going

Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged , , , , , , on November 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

It’s travel day. Fight the crowds, get to your destination, and have an enormous meal with family and friends. Then watch some TV and eat some more, and turn around and come home. Happy Thanksgiving!

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What’s up at Barclays Center

Posted in Misc, tagged , , , , , , on August 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The behemoth now has a roof, some mirrored panels, and traffic all around. Don’t believe the NY Times, either. There isn’t NY Nets fever all around the borough.

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Entrance to Brooklyn Bridge

Posted in Transportation, tagged , , , , , , on May 10, 2011| 1 Comment »

Here, at Tillary Street, is a bike and pedestrian entrance  to (& exit from) the Brooklyn Bridge. People who have come from Manhattan stop and ask, “Where the hell am I and where is the closest subway?” (A large map is nearby.) This is not the hip and scenic Brooklyn they have been hearing about. FYI, the guy in the photo is wearing a t-shirt of the Milky Way galaxy that says “You are here.”

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At night, follow the stripes

Posted in Transportation, tagged , , , , , on April 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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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Little tree on Ninth Street

Posted in Misc, tagged , , , , , , on November 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »

No, not the stinky kind, but a real, spindly one with a trunk that’s about the same size as the red No Parking sign nearby.

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Found: Penny runover umpteen times on Flatbush

Posted in Misc, tagged , , , , , , on October 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Poor Honest Abe. It’s like some tried to build a penny with particle board and brown paint using dull tools. Still legal tender, though.

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Brooklyn brush-off

Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged , , , , , , , on July 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I think she’s preoccupied and thinking about staying clear of the bus. A word of advice, though: if possible, use a hand, not an object, like an umbrella, to wave hello.

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Just stay in Brooklyn

Posted in Transportation, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »

To see this sign is to think of Hubert Selby Jr.’s book, Last Exit to Brooklyn, if you’re familiar with it. Bursting with profanity, violence, prostitution, and sexual confusion, it caused an enormous stir when it was published in 1964. The 1989 movie was dark, but had some good performances and was quite watchable.

Today in Brooklyn:  gray, cloudy, periods of rain. Most of the traffic was coming in rather than leaving.

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Can’t say it enough

Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged , , , , , , , on May 29, 2010| 1 Comment »

Third Avenue dead-ends at Flatbush; concrete barriers block the intersection. For months, a simple graffiti message has been encouraging half the population: You go girl! (The exclamation point is mine.) Could be the same person who wrote on the Fourth Avenue subway station; the “x” over the i in girl is the same.

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