Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, dekalb ave, dekalb market, flatbush ave, flatbush subway, n train, photography, r train, water towers brooklyn on April 2, 2012| 1 Comment »
Dekalb Market, which opens next weekend, is on the other side of the fence. The outside looks pretty good, but the website is a heap of gobbledegook, so I can’t tell you what to expect. Something about curated Farmers and Artists… but isn’t the staff at Junior’s curated, too?
Posted in Misc, tagged 86th st, bay ridge, brooklyn, brooklyn rain, brooklyn shopping, photography, r train on August 16, 2011| 1 Comment »
86th Street in Bay Ridge was actually a good place to shop after work yesterday. If the choice was between staying home and going out, getting wet and cold, and spending money, people did the sensible thing.
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, fourth ave, n train, nyc subway, photography, r train, south brooklyn on October 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Long before the current lapses in subway service, these train lines serving South Brooklyn were known as the Rarely and the Never. Riders may as well wait above-ground in the fresh air; it’s easy to hear when a train arrives and run down the stairs and catch it.
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, Court St, court street station, downtown brooklyn, footprints, in the paint, photography, r train on May 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Sorry. You were probably expecting an entry related to the NBA and the Celtics and Magic match-up rather than the footprint of a boot on the stairs at the Court Street subway station.
Posted in Misc, tagged bay ridge, best western, brooklyn, european tourists, fourth ave, hotel, hotel gregory, madrid lounge, neon, photography, r train, tapas on October 17, 2009| Leave a Comment »
There’s a Best Western in Bay Ridge; ONLY ten miles from Manhattan, the sales info says. The hotel first opened in 1926 as the Hotel Madrid, went through a few incarnations, and now it’s the Hotel Gregory (Best Western Gregory). An average room goes for around $150 a night, and it has three stars. It is one of the few hotels in the five boroughs not crawling with European tourists. They must have read about the R Train’s reputation for slowness and checked in somewhere else.
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, f train, fourth ave, giving directions, park slope, photography, r train on August 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
“Back there,” I heard her say as she pointed off in the distance. “That’s where you want to be.” The guys are digesting the information. They don’t appear to have a clue where they are, whether to get back on the subway or walk to their destination.
Posted in Transportation, tagged brooklyn, dekalb, dekalb ave, n train, nyc subway, photography, q train, r train on July 21, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Sit tight, wait for the show, and admire the theatrical lighting; there won’t be trains running on this side of the platform for several hours. It seems that there’s a lot of subway construction, a.k.a. “necessary trackwork,” going on lately.
Posted in Transportation, tagged brooklyn, commuters, nyc subway, pacific st, photography, r train on May 15, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Pacific Street, evening rush hour. The trains seem to be on some kind of slowdown this week. Every day it’s been waits, crowds, and impatient commuters.
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