Terrible looking watermelons

You mean, because they’re jackfruits? It’s not the first time I’ve had trouble identifying these things. Their ginormousness threw me off. Get one today to feed your village.

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A flat place with arrows

The road is decorated with spray paint; no road work has been done, though. After Prospect Park and Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn levels out, flat as a pancake, all the way to Coney Island.

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1/2 Price Outlet

Cold, wet weather is problematic for picture taking. But from inside the deli I’ve transformed Church Avenue into a fine looking shopping plaza. Tame your enthusiasm, though. The name brands at the 1/2 Price Outlet aren’t any you have ever heard of.

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The basics

You got your flowers, water, and beer. Looks like a party, especially if there might be a power outage and you need to sweet-talk your way into someone else’s apartment.

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G Trains are back, and extra long

G Trains have been back in service for a few days. They’re as long as regular subway trains and arrive at Church Avenue with passengers. It’s a small mystery. A larger one is why the MTA is claiming it’s too complicated to extend the monthly passes of riders who couldn’t take the trains when the service was out because of the hurricane. Sorry, no can do, they said.

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Dresses for sale

Another day, another neighborhood of shop windows at night. This place is selling dresses and saris, and not worrying about the mannequins or the ambiance.

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Read his palm

Look closely and we can find out all we need to know about this man by looking at his heart, head, life, and fate lines. (Not everyone has a readable fate line, you know.) Seems like card reading and tarot are more popular than palmistry these days.

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Scenesters

Church Avenue and McDonald is a major neighborhood intersection. The shops and flat landscape aren’t too interesting, but there are often some unusual characters hanging out or passing through.

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Feeling purple at the fruit stand

June 1, and we are a few days into the unofficial start of summer. People in NY still wear lots of black, but there are also seasonal displays of color (and white). At the greengrocer, red, yellow, green, pink, and orange are everywhere. Purple is more unusual.

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Grand opening

There’s a new deli on Church Avenue. What matters are the banners, which lend a festive feeling to about 20 feet of the block. The grand opening continues as long as the store decides, or until the banners decay and fall down.

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