Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged 37th st, brooklyn, green-wood cemetery, hurricane sandy, photography, spooky brooklyn on October 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Green-Wood always suffers during stormy weather, so you can imagine the damage that Sandy did to the trees in the cemetery. Here, a tree is down across 37th Street. No cars will be coming through for a while. Come back at night; it’s a little bit spooky around here even when it’s not Halloween time.
Posted in Food, tagged baked in brooklyn, bakery brooklyn, brooklyn, fifth ave, green-wood, green-wood cemetery, greenwood heights, photography on August 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
From the owners of Aladdin Bakery comes a bakery shop (5th Avenue and 26th Street). For sale there are bread and baked goods, (mmmm… cinnamon rolls), sandwiches, and coffee. There is seating for a small number of people. It’s fun to look out the window because more than half the people who go by are surprised that a new place, somewhere they would want to go, has opened on this strip. (Time Warner Cable is up the street.)
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, cemetery brooklyn, green-wood cemetery, photography on August 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This is the splendid view, looking downhill, from yesterday’s graffiti tree. The building is the Green-Wood chapel; in the distance the water is visible.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, green-wood cemetery, photography, tree graffiti on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
What you can make out is “RIP.” The rest of the letters might have once said “Big Al,” but you can’t be sure. Green-Wood is huge, and security can’t reach everywhere, but this defacement of a tree stands out. I want to go back in time, slap the knife from the hooligan’s hand and ask him, for we know it’s a him, “Does this really make you feel better?”
Posted in Food, tagged 25th st, brooklyn, brooklyn florist, fifth ave, green-wood cemetery, mcgovern weir, photography on July 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This looks like a sad story in the making, but it isn’t. Florists McGovern-Weir are closed for business, but Green-Wood Cemetery, across the street, bought the Victorian-era building and plans to restore it. The floral business relocated to Brooklyn Heights.
Posted in Misc, tagged banner, brooklyn, ft. hamilton parkway, green-wood cemetery, photography, welcome sign on June 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Ideally, the banner flutters and spins so that cars from each direction get to read the word Welcome properly. This sign is stuck at an angle so that the cars passing closest to it always have to read the word backwards, though. I’m sensing a mixed message.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, dog statue, green-wood cemetery, photography on March 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The name and dates on the tombstone have been as erased as the dog. What remains are the sentiments: loyalty, protection, and perhaps, friendship, for all time.
Posted in Misc, tagged 39th st, brooklyn, brooklyn concrete, green-wood cemetery, new utrecht, photography, ready mix, sunset park on February 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
You are probably thinking concrete and space are not so compatible. But a concrete plant situated one block from the cemetery between Ft. Hamilton and Sunset Park is just as unlikely. From this no-man’s land the module is ready to launch where few humans have been before, up in the blue yonder.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn snow, found object, ft. hamilton parkway, green-wood cemetery, nyc snow, photography on January 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Green-Wood Cemetery was closed to visitors today because the roads were icy. A walk along the fence turned up an interesting found object, though. New Year’s Eve was three weeks ago, and today was the first real snow of the season.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, fake flowers, green-wood cemetery, photography, veteran's day on December 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
That’s a patriotic carnation, left on a grave for Veteran’s Day, that is now among the leaves at Green-Wood Cemetery.
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