Fourth Avenue is flat as a pancake and offers, at times, a hint of a big sky vista. Buildings used to all be low, but it’s still possible, on a day when the sky is bright blue and the clouds are fluffy, to stand in one place, look up and take in the wide-open view.
Posts Tagged ‘south brooklyn’
Fourth: the big sky avenue
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn weather, fourth ave, pep boys brooklyn, photography, south brooklyn on October 18, 2011| 1 Comment »
View from the bridge
Posted in Misc, Transportation, tagged brooklyn, culver rehabilitation, elevated subway, f train, g train, mta, nyc subway, south brooklyn, verrazano on February 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »
There is one positive side effect of the temporary bridge at the Fourth Avenue stop on the F and G Trains – the view. This is looking south, toward the Verrazano and Bay Ridge.
Waiting for the R & N, the Rarely & Never
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.