Found photo: young man

Don’t worry, it’s more high school than milk carton. Litter would make me crazier if I didn’t find the occasional treasure, like this.

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Nervous People Our Specialty

It’s not easy, learning to drive in NYC. There are maniacs on the roads. It makes me nervous, thinking about it. This driving school implies that they have the secret to simple parking, but I’m not so sure. Line up your back wheel with the other car’s back wheel and it will usually work.

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While your flats are being fixed

When I need a flat-fix place, it’s never convenient to food and drink that I actually want, like that at Bar Tano.

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A carload of possibility

At the home improvement store. I’d like to see the “after” picture.

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A good day for pie

Well, it would be, except Four & Twenty Blackbirds, at the corner of Third Avenue and 8th Street, is on closed for vacation until August 6. (I took this picture last week.) The shop looks like a place you’d run across in the country. Yes, that place in your imagination where delicious, homemade food – desserts only! – is served up six days a week.

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The Eagle sign on a gray day

The Eagle sign is no Kentile sign, but we are fond of it as a local landmark. As the Kentile and Eagle factories are defunct, there will come a day when these vestiges of old Brooklyn fall apart. Gowanus will have a little less personality.

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3rd Avenue Building

It looks like a two-tone wall, but it’s a building along Third Avenue. Keep walking to the right and you’ll soon see signs of civilization, the Eagle Clothes sign and Halyards Bar.

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Big, rainy, graffiti mess

I never noticed the graffiti on this building before. The landlord is taking the approach that it should be painted over ASAP. Some would say this makes a mess is bigger than ever, and some graffiti-ists would say thanks for creating a clean (or sort of clean) palette to work on.

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Cozy afternoon

You can tell this is a bar and not someone’s house because there are framed warnings on the wall about drinking and pregnancy and what to do if someone’s choking. There’s a party going on, and it’s been planned early, so the kids won’t be tired and the hipsters coming later won’t be tired of the kids.

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From a crack in the sidewalk

Like the lotus, this plant is a thing of beauty growing in a challenging situation. Here, where the sidewalk meets the plywood, you can see the the nearby superfunded Gowanus Canal seeping through the fence.

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