tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72490951407770340662024-03-21T01:08:20.789-04:00Walking BrooklynBrooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.comBlogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-37613382578589841032014-01-13T12:53:00.000-05:002014-01-13T16:39:00.484-05:00Finally, Something To Be Proud Of<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvQTtj2F9yL8MM7kCDqxMcDG4pzfRWLCd5Nay01smL4eJfUuYzvbHXZKPdhvf9Eh7S33pklxTYcVzv0LhWHIXArcbhiLMyDGU5a7plJaQyLPhBkizb00OE2-ZOVblvPZ_PhODVvtbEq71/s1600/bankadd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>After years of having all manner of charmless, graceless structures foisted on our neighborhood, finally, Williamsburg has something to be proud of.<br />
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Back in April, 2011, the owners of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building at the corner of Driggs Avenue and Broadway began renovating the building.<br />
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It's taken close to three years and the outside renovations are finished at last (or all but, there is still a little cosmetic work being done in spots). And it was definitely worth waiting for.<br />
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I don't know what it's going to be used for. At one point I heard that the outdoor market over on the river was going to move here, then I heard it was going to be a sort of conference center. I don't really keep my ear to the ground any more so the plans could be widely known but I don't know them.<br />
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I was stopped by a woman out on Broadway last year and asked if I would sign some sheet that said I had no objection to a facility there having a liquor license. I think she said that part of the building would be used as a kind of banqueting facility. Maybe it's all part of the same plan. I signed the sheet. Considering how our MIA Community Board has let Bedford Ave., Grand St., and surrounding streets turn into Barlandia, I really couldn't complain about a banqueting hall out on Broadway.<br />
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I haven't wanted to do much with this blog because the way the neighborhood has changed is so depressing that on many days I want to pack up and leave. And I still think that there isn't much wrong that a few planeloads of Napalm couldn't cure. But more of that later (maybe). Why mar the photos of an attractive building with depressing thoughts like those.<br />
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I checked, they even set the clock to the correct time. Sadly this is the one part of the building that cannot be seen as it originally was because of the Williamsburg Bridge approach/exit roads and, more importantly, the elevated J/Z tracks directly behind the building. As it is now, the clock can only be seen, obliquely, from the sidewalk going past. The dumpsters for Peter Luger's are under there behind a locked gate; someone was dumping a load of refuse when I went by and I took the opportunity to dart in and shoot a photo of the clock. As usual, click on a photo to see it in its full size.<br />
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<br />Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-30673620379741056232014-01-13T12:23:00.000-05:002014-01-13T12:23:21.055-05:004th of July <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;">I went back to my blog posts this morning intending to put together a new post and found this, dated July 4, 2012. I have no idea why I didn't post it at the time. Maybe I was dissatisfied with it, maybe I hoped to add to it . . . text or photos. I can't remember now. I don't even know if the links are any good anymore. So, what the hell, I might as well post it. It was from when McCarren Pool reopened after years of renovation. Then I can get back to what I was really going to post this morning.</span></span><br />
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It has been so long since I published a post that I forgot my user name and password. Well, unemployment can have that effect on a person. Between trolling for job possibilities in publishing and taking care of the dog, there ain't an awful lot of time for blogs.<br />
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I had mentioned in an earlier post that the McCarren Pool was set to open this summer. I wandered down that way with the dog occasionally to see how things were going and it looked like such a mess right up to a week before opening that I thought they wouldn't make it. But they did. Some before and after shots . . .<br />
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The Lorimer Street sidewalk in front of the pool entrance.<br />
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The pedestrian path directly in front of the pool.<br />
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I haven't actually been inside the pool since it opened but I assume it doesn't look like this any longer since it's said to be filled to capacity with swimmers each day.<br />
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But the re-opening after almost thirty years doesn't have the fairy-tale ending that Mike Bloomberg surely was hoping for.<br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/nyregion/lifeguards-attacked-at-mccarren-pool.html?ref=nyregion" target="_blank">Lifeguards attacked at McCarren Pool</a><br />
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<a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/30/a-day-after-violence-crowds-jam-mccarren-pool/?ref=nyregion" target="_blank">A day after violence, crowds jam McCarren Pool</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/03/nyregion/officer-punched-by-swimmer-at-mccarren-pool-in-brooklyn.html?ref=nyregion" target="_blank">Officer punched at McCarren Pool</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/05/nyregion/problems-at-mccarren-park-pool-have-a-neighborhood-worried.html?hp" target="_blank">Neighborhood tensions flare at reopened pool</a><br />
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Sometimes I wonder if the writers for the New York Times ever visit the places they report on: "A place where the children of hipster artists . . .", "For example, in Williamsburg, which has attracted waves of artists in recent years, . . ." (from that last story).<br />
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Williamsburg these days is mainly about bars and the bar-hoppers who come to the neighborhood to block the sidewalks while smoking and chatting and texting on their androids. This afternoon while walking the dog I was almost pushed off the sidewalk on Driggs by some young yuppies walking three abreast across the sidewalk and totally oblivious to anyone else in the vicinity.<br />
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I know of a couple who were among the pioneer gallery owners back in the 1990s and who are struggling to hang on because the developers have turned Williamsburg into just one more upscale neighborhood. People are buying 100-year-old tenements for far more than they can afford and then attempting to buy out or evict the tenants so that they can double the rent for idiots who are willing to pay top dollar for a railroad flat out of <i>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn</i> just because Williamsburg is the hot neighborhood of the moment. "Bah, humbug," as someone used to say.<br />
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And speaking of unnecessary development . . .<br />
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This used to the the corner of Driggs Ave.and Grand St. It's a Google Earth picture because all my old photos are stashed away on DVDs and hard to get to at the moment.<br />
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This is the same corner today.<br />
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It's so lovely. And no, I'm not so naive as to think that it would remain an empty lot forever, but given the time I might have thought of a few hundred other things that I'd rather see there, like a gas station or a supermarket with reasonable prices. I'm not the only one worried about what that corner will be like when the heptaplex opens. I am still keeping my fingers crossed for a minor earthquake or a meteor.<br />
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<br />Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-364168272816325592012-01-22T17:09:00.015-05:002012-01-22T18:42:00.128-05:00Doing More Right Things<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8x9cn4MaKBRNlUxcu4YBKS7bq-KSKZgXYEMSB9NTAlF62Jm2T0U95JZPAM2cn8CjJS8CEXkka_gxZZHUAwPueHrHzT9PbZgiIgkQR203kisfVtCLJlHXgyqbDglg5mYOgLyYK7Ybmzj9/s1600/Puccio+G+1-12+adj.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG70FH94HgjEAwXAWOJ_FDI3aeC3D7uCkiDgsK2RArTvua8q1-1NieDxvilmIxgyRoRyLHczhEawZLCCa05k7C-Ql8GFWJqShH_DOSBf1yMEsfIPQQ6JrXg67kYH4PbmoOVSNinWjQYAbC/s1600/Puccio+A+6-11+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG70FH94HgjEAwXAWOJ_FDI3aeC3D7uCkiDgsK2RArTvua8q1-1NieDxvilmIxgyRoRyLHczhEawZLCCa05k7C-Ql8GFWJqShH_DOSBf1yMEsfIPQQ6JrXg67kYH4PbmoOVSNinWjQYAbC/s400/Puccio+A+6-11+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700587248414773778" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Down the block at Metropolitan Ave. there is a large storage (?)/showroom building owned by Puccio, one of our long-time local businesses (</span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.puccio.info/">Puccio Marble & Onyx</a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">). It <span style="font-style: italic;">was</span> a big white concrete box with plywood covered window openings scattered around the two sides facing the street.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCw6n2Au8c3aC338m3TLSxDo86j5MoTsfxY8eUoao3O79ZSE6EYwDnBg8SZB7c4pihghOTyJwCTe4Jzo1kCm1FVBtgI7Vr3yUZBINv8klsqwbgpmcNmMnZIoWCLDRLvS00LscbCf7nOgc/s1600/Puccio+C+6-11+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnCw6n2Au8c3aC338m3TLSxDo86j5MoTsfxY8eUoao3O79ZSE6EYwDnBg8SZB7c4pihghOTyJwCTe4Jzo1kCm1FVBtgI7Vr3yUZBINv8klsqwbgpmcNmMnZIoWCLDRLvS00LscbCf7nOgc/s400/Puccio+C+6-11+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700587485605707490" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It wasn't the prettiest building around but was at least suitable to its purpose and had no pretensions to anything else. Not the worst building in our neighborhood, either.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV5XnUc7e7oovD0ba2r4wTnsZ9RTW43c2dMT86f_qKJyAwWo94fJVJFZXI62YdnRl6VvU7kuvEIhaMwW_CnjnGR87mqgpV9CEmIct0z8qdIwqH_lfZz9nIHk-owyD4yUwfNsiZyQo6LzY/s1600/Puccio+D+6-11+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNV5XnUc7e7oovD0ba2r4wTnsZ9RTW43c2dMT86f_qKJyAwWo94fJVJFZXI62YdnRl6VvU7kuvEIhaMwW_CnjnGR87mqgpV9CEmIct0z8qdIwqH_lfZz9nIHk-owyD4yUwfNsiZyQo6LzY/s400/Puccio+D+6-11+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700587726107158098" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Then, one day at the end of last May, the usual wooden barricades appeared along the surrounding sidewalks that herald either a major transformation or, worse, a demolition.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnVV9CdVpUGZS3ftyst6qAihub2C1WTvXlfyIzFkPJOQT2OkXrBYMT9YIdtDxbV9wIbIMauydTitsrgCTWOhLYwuJesVaZWQ09mG8J3sqFlGRpW7joqLjHJ6zKDKSF19c0sx6w8N8v0-MK/s1600/Puccio+E+1-12+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnVV9CdVpUGZS3ftyst6qAihub2C1WTvXlfyIzFkPJOQT2OkXrBYMT9YIdtDxbV9wIbIMauydTitsrgCTWOhLYwuJesVaZWQ09mG8J3sqFlGRpW7joqLjHJ6zKDKSF19c0sx6w8N8v0-MK/s400/Puccio+E+1-12+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700588343087118386" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I'm happy to say that someone made the right decision and the building was transformed rather than demolished, possibly because Puccio may still be using the ground floor. One of their stone yards still sits at the far end of the building. I am thinking this because the large garage doors were left, but perhaps it's now parking for the apartments above.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyMypOtpD2n5roujOZb03rXiocJo6KxRq-249f8otJuGIwEB2SxJuiFFZ4RC0vgKy_Tsor9dcBIVB8pr1urnKa7ZRIUvy0BQI5W0LBpelZucv1jcarjvFXRzsh-PhwCXtVayEvT8VbPWQ/s1600/Puccio+F+1-12+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipyMypOtpD2n5roujOZb03rXiocJo6KxRq-249f8otJuGIwEB2SxJuiFFZ4RC0vgKy_Tsor9dcBIVB8pr1urnKa7ZRIUvy0BQI5W0LBpelZucv1jcarjvFXRzsh-PhwCXtVayEvT8VbPWQ/s400/Puccio+F+1-12+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700588814488127298" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">They made the right choice because I'm sure that if it <span style="font-style: italic;">had</span> been demolished we would have been saddled with another example of <span style="font-style: italic;">Williamsburgh Moderne</span>. All colored glass and cute little Plexiglas balconies.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8x9cn4MaKBRNlUxcu4YBKS7bq-KSKZgXYEMSB9NTAlF62Jm2T0U95JZPAM2cn8CjJS8CEXkka_gxZZHUAwPueHrHzT9PbZgiIgkQR203kisfVtCLJlHXgyqbDglg5mYOgLyYK7Ybmzj9/s1600/Puccio+G+1-12+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8x9cn4MaKBRNlUxcu4YBKS7bq-KSKZgXYEMSB9NTAlF62Jm2T0U95JZPAM2cn8CjJS8CEXkka_gxZZHUAwPueHrHzT9PbZgiIgkQR203kisfVtCLJlHXgyqbDglg5mYOgLyYK7Ybmzj9/s400/Puccio+G+1-12+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700589535547676866" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It's still pretty unpretentious but it's better than inflicting a gash on the neighborhood. And they even saved the trees (with luck they may plant a few more along the Driggs Ave. side).<br /><br /><br /><br />Over the weekend I watched the (original) 1974 production of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072251/"><span style="font-style: italic;">The Taking of Pelham One Two Three</span></a>. Not only was it a slight shock to be reminded that the subway fare at the time was only 35</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">¢</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, but the ransom demanded by the hijackers was only $1 million, and even that was split four ways! For $250,000 you probably can't even buy a co-op in Bed-Stuy these days. 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href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ke7KlFxXxe989P7f7Us5GWp7AtbpFM_dOwvZINYIE4KdDpMghVxFmRftlIGeKMhjUfbHvobFZM_1R_t4PXzpc_vpaTlZVx32NHIWTPQnKvp5Y2w4PznELnJgRzjaDFUvxkha796JoVUZ/s1600/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+027+resadj.jpg"><br /></a><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Back at the start of April, the owners of the Williamsburg Bank at Broadway and Driggs Ave. began some work on the building. At that time it appeared that all they were doing was removing most of an addition that was added on to the bank years after it was first built.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6jvW1vSpJpDZQBcROY4zrmLK90DCzP5h6KuvSq-3RAxZFYAGMqcf_SuTe_K-WyliN6XGmcs1L6lB9TNzBHL_ctqA_LwIWabbSUTNZ4T54fsQEo6c4E3GYy1hOxMC6gCgDjBqRzf0j8o/s1600/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+030+resadj.jpg"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683889995165145714" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6jvW1vSpJpDZQBcROY4zrmLK90DCzP5h6KuvSq-3RAxZFYAGMqcf_SuTe_K-WyliN6XGmcs1L6lB9TNzBHL_ctqA_LwIWabbSUTNZ4T54fsQEo6c4E3GYy1hOxMC6gCgDjBqRzf0j8o/s400/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+030+resadj.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That 3-story addition was swathed in white sheeting and was supposed to be reduced to one story (if it was not part of George B. Post's original design of 1870, why keep <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> of it?).</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_L3EpbI_rDHFV0FTrNHWy4HBSp7y2zly6N7IU2G5D4HCXCjKVcvzXMYqdO4uqtjjTHw4ITk7lWcHzKr2m_U09YltcZbXLMKdoyjH-qeyFZhItjLN9zaO48jo9f5Lmk-2dA29p-PwX10/s1600/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+012+resadj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh_L3EpbI_rDHFV0FTrNHWy4HBSp7y2zly6N7IU2G5D4HCXCjKVcvzXMYqdO4uqtjjTHw4ITk7lWcHzKr2m_U09YltcZbXLMKdoyjH-qeyFZhItjLN9zaO48jo9f5Lmk-2dA29p-PwX10/s640/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+012+resadj.jpg" border="0" width="426" height="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Since then, the entire building has been encased in scaffolding from the ground up to the base of the dome. It appears, according to the work permit issued by the city (see below, click on it to enlarge it enough to read), that they are intent on restoring the entire building, which can only be a very good thing for the neighborhood.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjf-t-8TV9D9AEXCh0j5N-UDE53AQkDZau4SoMascn_N3FACdw8G0KPfAhp8llq321CRr5GOoETLRWZtVsbr9iRftbdv69OWo0NyijQ-WLuaceiMfmhKlm2ymgmApaNXigW-xaVlBhu4/s1600/Bank+permit+part+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjf-t-8TV9D9AEXCh0j5N-UDE53AQkDZau4SoMascn_N3FACdw8G0KPfAhp8llq321CRr5GOoETLRWZtVsbr9iRftbdv69OWo0NyijQ-WLuaceiMfmhKlm2ymgmApaNXigW-xaVlBhu4/s320/Bank+permit+part+2.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="118" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0vuIU1BoVFVc2EJ74EOWr9GiS1Qqqe2ybOdxwabC3tIE012f0ff_vpYU1pokCbgv5FAPKXlLw3j9fmu0GZhuhXNMHSYF7el1845j6MlGEJZ0Szce7vPRN4B4lwoyMyIYU3yQoFv2lU4/s1600/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+004+cropadj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL0vuIU1BoVFVc2EJ74EOWr9GiS1Qqqe2ybOdxwabC3tIE012f0ff_vpYU1pokCbgv5FAPKXlLw3j9fmu0GZhuhXNMHSYF7el1845j6MlGEJZ0Szce7vPRN4B4lwoyMyIYU3yQoFv2lU4/s640/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+004+cropadj.jpg" border="0" width="388" height="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I look forward to the completely restored building.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Further north on Driggs at Grand St., our presumed movie theater is making progress slowly; they've been working on it since the end of June. What puzzles me a little is the story that was going around the neighborhood for years about the high water table there that prevented anyone from digging a foundation. Periodically, people would come by to make test bores in the soil and go away disappointed. Supposedly, one could only put up a small structure there because it would have to rest on nothing more than a concrete slab. But these folks don't seem to have trouble excavating a fairly deep foundation. Go figure.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The latest word I heard is that it is to be a 6-screen multiplex, and the thought of that just chills me. That part of Williamsburg has already grown so much to resemble midtown, I shudder to think of Grand Street with a 6-screen movie house.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoCbXJf6n8sAR60xQ-TvPNIwC33zxKRzq2UXUD78mpKI1X9XelzDZ4R3M27XP2YsFkgDMzfJpDjFCe2eu-Hnm2b5aMgVMPKXNZ6vWvLycD_1CwRK7YL8B6q76Gfv2BGmcYzWvClduh4I/s1600/Driggs+Theat+resadj.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSoCbXJf6n8sAR60xQ-TvPNIwC33zxKRzq2UXUD78mpKI1X9XelzDZ4R3M27XP2YsFkgDMzfJpDjFCe2eu-Hnm2b5aMgVMPKXNZ6vWvLycD_1CwRK7YL8B6q76Gfv2BGmcYzWvClduh4I/s320/Driggs+Theat+resadj.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="213" /></a></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> </span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /><br />And directly across the street they are approaching the end of another enormous project. The only thing I can say is that it doesn't look quite as bad as I thought it would, but that's not much of a compliment.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoO8gkpvJnOC0JHhExiEkycBDOpCdgqkCTB-P718vsxtzLNQW3rPNfXOZtXjVjVlbqfKk_jvFVaIG3YqHjpe7bJ9-C7K6pfTsHoQcVh3sNrGwymzQYwX5wHJJmVKUbtfl5A7alUNBSLo/s1600/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+005+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAoO8gkpvJnOC0JHhExiEkycBDOpCdgqkCTB-P718vsxtzLNQW3rPNfXOZtXjVjVlbqfKk_jvFVaIG3YqHjpe7bJ9-C7K6pfTsHoQcVh3sNrGwymzQYwX5wHJJmVKUbtfl5A7alUNBSLo/s400/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+005+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683930572249643714" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIHrmQAyvPWUwmdBKu9r2Xd_Nc9avBeLAPDiJzHumtM-l_NPu1d65Gngw3vOfB_Ra1yNRg6s8diFVTOAge3werYFuGFPJa6fqrP_hu85Dl1FIz7rwa_ITvSKrcmvckNzeh0WmeFjkF0k/s1600/Driggs+corner+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIHrmQAyvPWUwmdBKu9r2Xd_Nc9avBeLAPDiJzHumtM-l_NPu1d65Gngw3vOfB_Ra1yNRg6s8diFVTOAge3werYFuGFPJa6fqrP_hu85Dl1FIz7rwa_ITvSKrcmvckNzeh0WmeFjkF0k/s400/Driggs+corner+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683930794963433730" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And down by the river on lower Broadway, we are losing a little bit of a nice view. Compare the two photos below, one taken last May, the other taken last week.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5xRhN0TdYdcsogi0gR4lCGf_Jv23W1Zz3JIIBXe7Eq7sPdHnm6jX19hBSJt5eQDbXo-DI56jayJVpXLXRvOutUYQlbZW1YLSXfr_Oy1185uJCOGCEmmerv6UVnKDbj1rTHliMxyVs9c/s1600/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+028+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX5xRhN0TdYdcsogi0gR4lCGf_Jv23W1Zz3JIIBXe7Eq7sPdHnm6jX19hBSJt5eQDbXo-DI56jayJVpXLXRvOutUYQlbZW1YLSXfr_Oy1185uJCOGCEmmerv6UVnKDbj1rTHliMxyVs9c/s400/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+028+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683931703204438898" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Q2KI__7GleoWwNSq6dvv9nr9C3CrR9at3lpQ0WbgaZXE_vAEELi2HANUAv9M334Umbpz-_c8SCVD2nO2YGr7gf7J-0yCX9BEWFD8WCs7oSDDzZXSknxScECm1hy9xZoD0W3yV90aqG5H/s1600/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+023+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Q2KI__7GleoWwNSq6dvv9nr9C3CrR9at3lpQ0WbgaZXE_vAEELi2HANUAv9M334Umbpz-_c8SCVD2nO2YGr7gf7J-0yCX9BEWFD8WCs7oSDDzZXSknxScECm1hy9xZoD0W3yV90aqG5H/s400/12-3-11+Sat.+Williamsburg+023+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683932541367526546" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ironically, the photos were taken in front of a building called . . .</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ke7KlFxXxe989P7f7Us5GWp7AtbpFM_dOwvZINYIE4KdDpMghVxFmRftlIGeKMhjUfbHvobFZM_1R_t4PXzpc_vpaTlZVx32NHIWTPQnKvp5Y2w4PznELnJgRzjaDFUvxkha796JoVUZ/s1600/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+027+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_ke7KlFxXxe989P7f7Us5GWp7AtbpFM_dOwvZINYIE4KdDpMghVxFmRftlIGeKMhjUfbHvobFZM_1R_t4PXzpc_vpaTlZVx32NHIWTPQnKvp5Y2w4PznELnJgRzjaDFUvxkha796JoVUZ/s400/5-13-11+Fri.+W%2527burg+027+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683932852477217618" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So, winter creeps in, and life goes on, and the dog must be walked.</span> </span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-78800243159708905632011-06-27T21:13:00.057-04:002011-06-29T21:00:47.755-04:00Going . . . going . . .<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRKlxxiV_LAkfV-iIMLeVxO9BF-998I0UrIRFlEb7FtC6103B2PEY7jEzPa4LqclIqVxin2mSKChAGuIeKKUyAjF2o0S28-E7w43ApR8dLQQiBysXO6sC_OBn5tdswUChl4nNq0JSzL4/s1600/7-27-09+004+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkRKlxxiV_LAkfV-iIMLeVxO9BF-998I0UrIRFlEb7FtC6103B2PEY7jEzPa4LqclIqVxin2mSKChAGuIeKKUyAjF2o0S28-E7w43ApR8dLQQiBysXO6sC_OBn5tdswUChl4nNq0JSzL4/s400/7-27-09+004+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623310075575519778" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I did not intend to return to this blog since I am doing little in the way of wandering Brooklyn like I did once. But . . . some things require no more than a walk down the block or a glance right and left as I head for the L train. As a matter of fact, forget about the rest of Brooklyn, just charting the Deconstruction of the City of Williamsburg could be a full-time job, 24-7. </span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gPgrtBaZ2sPYI_Y0m4s31LcTX4_TF0yW3OCZ7MRKiHWQYqmclBD5_mjCNUJTpJWRw0mLxEESWRqpMaYzSEJTVXk0rMEVs1H7B-s6vkDyGYE1hTZiDX35iLB1TkFup0mcZVp6sgIAiIA/s1600/7-28-09+006+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_gPgrtBaZ2sPYI_Y0m4s31LcTX4_TF0yW3OCZ7MRKiHWQYqmclBD5_mjCNUJTpJWRw0mLxEESWRqpMaYzSEJTVXk0rMEVs1H7B-s6vkDyGYE1hTZiDX35iLB1TkFup0mcZVp6sgIAiIA/s400/7-28-09+006+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623310176369935458" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHLAXYRedq2ntWfSEefY61M1QxxyT-gWOrdka2I0vWWlhEz6HXd9JgHrijWnBqKpgwA4eeRrSso1wratjvMkQv1QrnHOa8P6l7yPuv9LkaUinVsQsgc9ijyZBhMeZNQEN385mOcZZT2c/s1600/7-28-09+006+adj+copy.jpg"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I won't pretend that the empty lot at the corner of Driggs Ave. and Grand St. was ever anything like a lush, refreshing summer meadow. We're not talking </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Heidi</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> or<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >The Sound of Music</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> here. It's previous incarnation some ten years ago was as a dirt and gravel parking lot, which you can make out on the Microsoft Virtual Earth map below. The red building across the street from the lot was old and there was graffiti on the walls but it was also only one story high, maybe a story and a half, and didn't block the sky (compare it to the last photo in this post).</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b_yGGxVFQPZ7QZg32xXv8O3hWuabI8zPagqx2ymj9iYgQdyGi101XS_2B0hcsn7Xb5xhFKbO0ry4Bs2Fcojyp-XcL6KOQgt3Ps0nc0uFAfFzulgRCwBaMIQsOzt72P9DnqJnOa3u-8U/s1600/Driggs+%2526+Grand+crop.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 362px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8b_yGGxVFQPZ7QZg32xXv8O3hWuabI8zPagqx2ymj9iYgQdyGi101XS_2B0hcsn7Xb5xhFKbO0ry4Bs2Fcojyp-XcL6KOQgt3Ps0nc0uFAfFzulgRCwBaMIQsOzt72P9DnqJnOa3u-8U/s400/Driggs+%2526+Grand+crop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623310470034801618" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSHLAXYRedq2ntWfSEefY61M1QxxyT-gWOrdka2I0vWWlhEz6HXd9JgHrijWnBqKpgwA4eeRrSso1wratjvMkQv1QrnHOa8P6l7yPuv9LkaUinVsQsgc9ijyZBhMeZNQEN385mOcZZT2c/s1600/7-28-09+006+adj+copy.jpg"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I don't claim to know what happened but I'll take an educated guess. When the neighborhood began to take off around that time, the owner of the lot may have decided to cash in and get what probably seemed like a great price for it at the time. The buyer no doubt thought he, too, got a great deal with a large empty lot, certain to appreciate in value, in what was becoming ground zero for trendy Williamsburg.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFA0-cowKZBObuFjcHRMX45PCWbZ1CbkXUi5MWXjhoi2H3NtJ9zsfQu_GjD78p9Y1omD7X2xlBV1ZIJehdtxgF9TXwHf02GEldvq2rDwVJ0jlinftica4BpKvMDwpQqFwQ5h0eCvvhMM/s1600/Image028+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFA0-cowKZBObuFjcHRMX45PCWbZ1CbkXUi5MWXjhoi2H3NtJ9zsfQu_GjD78p9Y1omD7X2xlBV1ZIJehdtxgF9TXwHf02GEldvq2rDwVJ0jlinftica4BpKvMDwpQqFwQ5h0eCvvhMM/s400/Image028+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623310858117214610" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" 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So, we forgot about it and felt lucky that we had a few hundred feet of something that wasn't a bar.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjco5OWjUuU1q5dM5FFzr49ixkMPrepEU92AhxSWO5UJNKC3MnivgnheJ4wIQXLAYWDIYN9FVD6FiBh6Nc0rThbM8JvqZ6LFN-twhqI8zCuQGut_WKrqo9YjjFrM3M2zmCByvNY_T4E5pw/s1600/7-28-09+001+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjco5OWjUuU1q5dM5FFzr49ixkMPrepEU92AhxSWO5UJNKC3MnivgnheJ4wIQXLAYWDIYN9FVD6FiBh6Nc0rThbM8JvqZ6LFN-twhqI8zCuQGut_WKrqo9YjjFrM3M2zmCByvNY_T4E5pw/s400/7-28-09+001+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623311326981700658" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">From time to time people tried to grow things in there but since it was completely fenced in, that was a difficult feat. We had a few straggling plants near the fence.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGrySNjr9Y4OyHzx4yBvZ4LQjMgoUpR350fXSuvo-AeOlpVC80DmF0fMiGm9JQF7V8mHdTHRwtjBko2uFjNzFMW_7nWluMMpm-CWml118gl3Qic0MUF6A2pwQAQ2XG6yvV7w6-akrHcY/s1600/7-28-09+002+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGrySNjr9Y4OyHzx4yBvZ4LQjMgoUpR350fXSuvo-AeOlpVC80DmF0fMiGm9JQF7V8mHdTHRwtjBko2uFjNzFMW_7nWluMMpm-CWml118gl3Qic0MUF6A2pwQAQ2XG6yvV7w6-akrHcY/s400/7-28-09+002+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623311466316169538" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But even without any cultivated plants, the wild growth by itself provided enough of a respite from the construction going on seemingly on every block in the neighborhood with stacks of lumber, steel girders, dumpsters, and construction scaffolding wherever you turned.</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cYDAXCTsS2wcTLawst9fZUB34ND4kzq-L6ksuxfIh95bZOju7t5j3EZCPUblCaVqYFzOg_yDmUXMomq8n2PqdwZI_PDiw807XAw-TwWmV7pDQbA3nGNAEcrMnGtfA5KRGY1_Mt9qOqI/s1600/7-28-09+003+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cYDAXCTsS2wcTLawst9fZUB34ND4kzq-L6ksuxfIh95bZOju7t5j3EZCPUblCaVqYFzOg_yDmUXMomq8n2PqdwZI_PDiw807XAw-TwWmV7pDQbA3nGNAEcrMnGtfA5KRGY1_Mt9qOqI/s400/7-28-09+003+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623312293240860210" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">At least I never complained about the lack of a nice solid condo in that space.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This was the first summer in years that didn't see any flourishing growth in there. Except near the fence. Unless that old mattress counts as "wild growth."</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOmopn96lKrmhnhGEwzBkOm93XMXStHydLThle8l8fEC2Pc38RFc6o5CUxbDtailFgN9P_NSX14CkJdfgr1NphvVCx0nRdBAodnNDYbUjr4OyqKKyQ6C1bWf-jXeZ69cHaIvjwH3JYKs/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+005+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioOmopn96lKrmhnhGEwzBkOm93XMXStHydLThle8l8fEC2Pc38RFc6o5CUxbDtailFgN9P_NSX14CkJdfgr1NphvVCx0nRdBAodnNDYbUjr4OyqKKyQ6C1bWf-jXeZ69cHaIvjwH3JYKs/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+005+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623086392140848706" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqH8e7DR4MCo3EaBj8603PDLDbKpoU4RULVf6AAoTOgQUtvR7r6l6JAAjW5N7Si1ox2WhvlSnBbby5M4KiRFYhL3onBR6iJJU5DiZpZ3T5cV9iSa7CKAoqRlKlKyNWWIZCOxNhxI_7uo/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+006+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZqH8e7DR4MCo3EaBj8603PDLDbKpoU4RULVf6AAoTOgQUtvR7r6l6JAAjW5N7Si1ox2WhvlSnBbby5M4KiRFYhL3onBR6iJJU5DiZpZ3T5cV9iSa7CKAoqRlKlKyNWWIZCOxNhxI_7uo/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+006+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623086643171683666" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Fast forward to Friday, June 24, when some building material appeared in the lot, and a small barrier appeared on the North 1st Street side. Uh-oh! Rumors about a movie theater had been percolating for a year or so and seemed stronger lately (fed, I think, by a </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >New York Times</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> story, the same one that wrote of a Starbucks soon to appear out on Bedford). It looked like our idyll was over. The theater, we were told, didn't need a basement but could be built on a flat concrete slab.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNtzoUbxKUnrO6dQhsI78aEIoX5O_vj-UT94yYaRdWHZa3XV_P-y9T225zmBta4Jfr6WKPrpVs0mFTGr0rq3ZdUkk22p4KfeW-ruvCwtqULSjz5QBvg0668EZsP8PDOV8FnGsK5r4nF0/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+012+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcNtzoUbxKUnrO6dQhsI78aEIoX5O_vj-UT94yYaRdWHZa3XV_P-y9T225zmBta4Jfr6WKPrpVs0mFTGr0rq3ZdUkk22p4KfeW-ruvCwtqULSjz5QBvg0668EZsP8PDOV8FnGsK5r4nF0/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+012+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623087048625794962" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEosls9Epv1Wp-ncIsbbmEHevi-S2z_l9yKzShA7d5t6ORg6v-QJst7Fi-9ftuzmDQiROHrFc3NfJ1riNduRaIndPQV3qkLIPcCE8GTWe1K7fr883u7QH_5E65QcvjDmchZhcMca54j8Q/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+007+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEosls9Epv1Wp-ncIsbbmEHevi-S2z_l9yKzShA7d5t6ORg6v-QJst7Fi-9ftuzmDQiROHrFc3NfJ1riNduRaIndPQV3qkLIPcCE8GTWe1K7fr883u7QH_5E65QcvjDmchZhcMca54j8Q/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+007+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623086751747968898" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Came Monday morning and a truck showed up along with a large gray furry dog (but a friendly dog). And some construction worker types began fastening some new parking signs along all sides of the lot: No Parking Anytime / Temporary Construction Regulation.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPVKthDIYj-PZ2VU2rLHb1igXAd_rfUhuyYdSCM2qy0gpdklyqEQi8PMlbo6vFjon_F340R6145xfmEevRASE0AJF35rJn0jDG5zhqvpfRWn9_QMfmGTnBYjGSJ9U9K0hrYDTe8ce_Ec/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+018+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMPVKthDIYj-PZ2VU2rLHb1igXAd_rfUhuyYdSCM2qy0gpdklyqEQi8PMlbo6vFjon_F340R6145xfmEevRASE0AJF35rJn0jDG5zhqvpfRWn9_QMfmGTnBYjGSJ9U9K0hrYDTe8ce_Ec/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+018+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623087244365483970" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-XdT5QYSx7mh2ZCXMwLu3JoIXIbnXqRdJljJkF4GETdyxX_dewiFrPcbja6d1P2RdCxshEMWZVLi_aWQjqNt7E6H_Zp0i9aVL0UcGTMTttMGgURkJU7NMhFzlaNCoXJOI1c67bBzzJE/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+018+cropresadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3-XdT5QYSx7mh2ZCXMwLu3JoIXIbnXqRdJljJkF4GETdyxX_dewiFrPcbja6d1P2RdCxshEMWZVLi_aWQjqNt7E6H_Zp0i9aVL0UcGTMTttMGgURkJU7NMhFzlaNCoXJOI1c67bBzzJE/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+018+cropresadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623087332087026642" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">By Monday evening, board ramparts had appeared almost completely surrounding the lot. I'm sure that by the time I get home from work tonight the lot will have disappeared behind a solid wooden barricade.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpkS3TyBhz3aGelmKoWcy1UTPkspmmFYP7T_bhjeRR0mYnNasrglBiA0BOe1mVMQ4Q1XvYIwPki0wMed9yzbE4Vbp5ePWHF7k__imWpMhPDhGM4QzyJ-xZheZYQW9aIdV1ueOeK9ffjU/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+020+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCpkS3TyBhz3aGelmKoWcy1UTPkspmmFYP7T_bhjeRR0mYnNasrglBiA0BOe1mVMQ4Q1XvYIwPki0wMed9yzbE4Vbp5ePWHF7k__imWpMhPDhGM4QzyJ-xZheZYQW9aIdV1ueOeK9ffjU/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+020+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623087489938551218" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0mgYDd-cnfWaIUTWZfpUn_GD_5JKRLX04izdmJyCvJ6V_0KIAo4CI6oz9iWSxNCr0Q8FB9MkHX5yC8fRq0J5VCy5AgWrdIX24tyTBo4SYux_-CG2LfBCXoQTxQYmVIEnOFloJQ_n9ks/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+034+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC0mgYDd-cnfWaIUTWZfpUn_GD_5JKRLX04izdmJyCvJ6V_0KIAo4CI6oz9iWSxNCr0Q8FB9MkHX5yC8fRq0J5VCy5AgWrdIX24tyTBo4SYux_-CG2LfBCXoQTxQYmVIEnOFloJQ_n9ks/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+034+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623088262245448834" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfzPDAFMX_nsR97ql7aTFegL-Q76RrErIjMxZnkn31s2JmAj42mb9qknE-W7XsPOrtpIeFJVplPNuotUDzDK8mUpY9LY8oWjT-H2tWtqSXb9KoW7t0aQpiNiD-EKzBVUFaAQe2nmsm5E/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+029+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyfzPDAFMX_nsR97ql7aTFegL-Q76RrErIjMxZnkn31s2JmAj42mb9qknE-W7XsPOrtpIeFJVplPNuotUDzDK8mUpY9LY8oWjT-H2tWtqSXb9KoW7t0aQpiNiD-EKzBVUFaAQe2nmsm5E/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+029+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623087958250597730" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It's too bad if it is going to be a movie theater. Grand Street on a summer weekend now is like midtown Manhattan. Considering all the bars along the street, do we really need a few hundred more people congregating on one corner? Not really. Especially considering the behemoth rising directly across the street where that red brick shambles used to be, which will add a few hundred people all by itself.<br /><br /></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianY_H_yb7EAqnVgg-3Gq6a2hKxOxWFIc04g1XPnbeMZbw0rltmlEZo1p4m_E1DSKQxcTh1uCTqlEBu5B0iCSdl0aYOfJLUEMovbBOhab6CGyUk_b5nbS9DqLx-By_1Y40p2RwPDBGsC0/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+036+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEianY_H_yb7EAqnVgg-3Gq6a2hKxOxWFIc04g1XPnbeMZbw0rltmlEZo1p4m_E1DSKQxcTh1uCTqlEBu5B0iCSdl0aYOfJLUEMovbBOhab6CGyUk_b5nbS9DqLx-By_1Y40p2RwPDBGsC0/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+036+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623088795467735730" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And one other thing does bother me: One of those trees along the Grand Street side is inside the fence. Not to be too cynical but I doubt that the developer, builder, whoever is going to worry too much about keeping the tree when the supposed theater will probably go right to the building line.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6NwO9SQQSOc5t36qH4c7KlPooXdlUr1EDJ3ttKWfEP87p3B-BCgDdXrW6bry8mzJ-I07XglHOg7ExVdYDOpHQjC3INYXspH-YtRHwpEFMNWzwGoJS7Ztic4I_1CZavkp-ja4krOjWQQ/s1600/6-27-11+W%2527burg+017croprescoloradj.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6NwO9SQQSOc5t36qH4c7KlPooXdlUr1EDJ3ttKWfEP87p3B-BCgDdXrW6bry8mzJ-I07XglHOg7ExVdYDOpHQjC3INYXspH-YtRHwpEFMNWzwGoJS7Ztic4I_1CZavkp-ja4krOjWQQ/s400/6-27-11+W%2527burg+017croprescoloradj.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623442195555338562" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />There are other trees along there so it ain't the end of the world, but still . . . those trees are really striking for a couple of weeks at the start of each spring and I'd hate to lose even one of them. All things considered, if I had to choose between keeping a tree and losing a tree, I'd keep it. They take too long to replace.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Well, we can always hope for a really wet fall and winter with swollen underground springs exploding like the cemetery at the end of </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Poltergeist,</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and the movie house floating down Driggs Ave. to wash up in Greenpoint. I'd buy a ticket to see that.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday, June 29, 2011</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And now, let us begin</span></span><br /><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgon8aeR84cSzsOtwn47m5bdgLCT_PXtB8g_b24yohuB1zVkPiyZAuf8UdNf19GQobb2_aSE8ZpNI_583JBMZ4xFUclE5MIVwn5mbQmRRGvvMu9AMRxHSsu0lpbIX_a5YVnwKUnJMmAxgE/s1600/Grand+St+front+6-29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgon8aeR84cSzsOtwn47m5bdgLCT_PXtB8g_b24yohuB1zVkPiyZAuf8UdNf19GQobb2_aSE8ZpNI_583JBMZ4xFUclE5MIVwn5mbQmRRGvvMu9AMRxHSsu0lpbIX_a5YVnwKUnJMmAxgE/s400/Grand+St+front+6-29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623630611625277282" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKiwGoZzPXOKzMooNouL4je3Dy5BOWPWi-uoO8XGVayG1_ShRka5GcoLvIWRr2o3TAt8nUkqwhmKg6b3oaYpo9GoWb_4dn3f4W4vN3PEqKkPi42z5sxCHWbkWLDB-Hup8DJyaMVtNmoM/s1600/lot-excav-redo-6-29.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvKiwGoZzPXOKzMooNouL4je3Dy5BOWPWi-uoO8XGVayG1_ShRka5GcoLvIWRr2o3TAt8nUkqwhmKg6b3oaYpo9GoWb_4dn3f4W4vN3PEqKkPi42z5sxCHWbkWLDB-Hup8DJyaMVtNmoM/s400/lot-excav-redo-6-29.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623630374813295506" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJkSL0BZ7-RiLDjrsmLTsoRfUJwALuvw-PyjV6uI2e8ETdma46W6KLtQAb6-RO4ZcxAWJUwCVnUQzizQOBptwWxb_RijPB10c1sAZwysLFTFBd2oIv3JfLOBG8LgD9jFy3SsHqwTalnE/s1600/truck+6-29.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBJkSL0BZ7-RiLDjrsmLTsoRfUJwALuvw-PyjV6uI2e8ETdma46W6KLtQAb6-RO4ZcxAWJUwCVnUQzizQOBptwWxb_RijPB10c1sAZwysLFTFBd2oIv3JfLOBG8LgD9jFy3SsHqwTalnE/s400/truck+6-29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623630770621521298" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh695p79PPB-j-8oC_AbN3rLLSRFBaS5ViTXwu60QCSjH4kINGfF8wVYnbbMR7uIyJkuHCFMk9XCkqPJiWlX8ExxMUMOrquHDA7DtrzP20imNTpe1MZdqJRU_DBzc2zKWc6ZWCpmyp7IkY/s1600/flagman-6-29.gif"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh695p79PPB-j-8oC_AbN3rLLSRFBaS5ViTXwu60QCSjH4kINGfF8wVYnbbMR7uIyJkuHCFMk9XCkqPJiWlX8ExxMUMOrquHDA7DtrzP20imNTpe1MZdqJRU_DBzc2zKWc6ZWCpmyp7IkY/s400/flagman-6-29.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623631158551415250" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I feel sorry for the poor dog; around that lot and along North 1st St. where the big truck is used to be her favorite walking/sniffing/people watching spots. North 1st St. itself felt like a quiet backwater where few people ventured. No more.<br /><br />A friend who lives further east out toward Bushwick told me she heard a story on NPR last week about a new movie theater going up in Williamsburg. The story, she said, was all about Williamsburg's "grave lack of cinema." Now that is a horrible situation. Grave, as they say. Living so far out of the city that you have to pack a box lunch if you want to struggle across mountains and rivers to a movie house in Manhattan is tough. The Angelika might as well be in Albany. I wondered what those torchlight parades down Bedford Avenue were with the milling hordes screaming "Movies NOW!" Now I know.<br /><br />If someone wanted to march in support of a reasonably priced super market in the neighborhood, or even a Trader Joe's, that's a parade I could get behind easily.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wednesday night, June 29, 2011</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6sb8qm5sOwdkkitDfy32EH8rNLdYKmwyzZGp1LPUw5t_oR1fiCitubdirmNc6c-AFDTc2Datd9tGiLh3ugai_Z_bw0IfdItG-aCcHX6f03BWOQ-hXrJUSVZPvw-hMCc7p0YZZsh46DY/s1600/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+020+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv6sb8qm5sOwdkkitDfy32EH8rNLdYKmwyzZGp1LPUw5t_oR1fiCitubdirmNc6c-AFDTc2Datd9tGiLh3ugai_Z_bw0IfdItG-aCcHX6f03BWOQ-hXrJUSVZPvw-hMCc7p0YZZsh46DY/s400/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+020+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623809954774034162" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">They had a busy day. The lot is completely fenced in, it's been painted blue (I actually preferred the natural look but then, I'm a contrarian), and (possibly just when I was mentioning the tree) the tree by the fence was cut down, but no surprise there. Probably had they left the fence a natural brown, I would have wanted it painted; still, a nice green would have been better than a dark blue.<br /><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxE7NxC7hZUVRI9UZE3oje6cZr90zpFffDS99LlA7QwcXCGWi1L4jtwXsCiE5We07-9ByJ8b85zE4Wq4O-AEGJ1U1g7BP_uCaGvfafHSLB7H_a3ir_wTH0mrYAaP4EOxaiHdBXlFsr57k/s1600/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+021+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxE7NxC7hZUVRI9UZE3oje6cZr90zpFffDS99LlA7QwcXCGWi1L4jtwXsCiE5We07-9ByJ8b85zE4Wq4O-AEGJ1U1g7BP_uCaGvfafHSLB7H_a3ir_wTH0mrYAaP4EOxaiHdBXlFsr57k/s400/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+021+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623810186421977810" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />The poor dog is completely disoriented. She has been used to rushing over to the fence each evening to sniff the grass along the whole length along three streets. Tonight, she couldn't figure out where the fence was, started whining and didn't even want one of her favorite treats. Very sad.<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wJVPH3fkoXPbkBRKwTsurcoNvbrjKpd9oypSlUQ3rJKtHzufs79U1YCYYoIk75lpvRLtPplOWjvmyTPPG9F0EVNezXCJohX4S-5aUXquVxxbdOj54GS_QVq-yrJbIsitdeE8UDieo40/s1600/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+044+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_wJVPH3fkoXPbkBRKwTsurcoNvbrjKpd9oypSlUQ3rJKtHzufs79U1YCYYoIk75lpvRLtPplOWjvmyTPPG9F0EVNezXCJohX4S-5aUXquVxxbdOj54GS_QVq-yrJbIsitdeE8UDieo40/s400/6-29-11+Wed.+W%2527burg+Grand+St+044+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623810480574640002" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-6678660110807642372011-05-31T12:51:00.002-04:002011-05-31T12:58:17.700-04:00Dog<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_K86GQTaf9hen2qByitEWAm3e0qmSjp01hUMVWm1PVSbXv3yzrTB3vI1h9d5ZNw6hXrWBIFXd06AklYb_ACbqnCumRvNZwg_JwB71pMPxh6LyhaqLpJmU5KYshMmnCrU_B4vYmkIBvg/s1600/blogdog.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn_K86GQTaf9hen2qByitEWAm3e0qmSjp01hUMVWm1PVSbXv3yzrTB3vI1h9d5ZNw6hXrWBIFXd06AklYb_ACbqnCumRvNZwg_JwB71pMPxh6LyhaqLpJmU5KYshMmnCrU_B4vYmkIBvg/s400/blogdog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612925421824090626" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We have a new dog at home . . . a puppy . . . and she's taking up most of my free time. The opportunities for me to wander Brooklyn have all but disappeared for the foreseeable future. So unless something extraordinary happens—like all the trendy bar hoppers deciding Williamsburg is passé and leaving us once again in peace—I won't be doing anything here for a while.</span></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-26551765574751326802011-04-15T21:31:00.002-04:002011-04-15T21:34:06.143-04:00Calling all philanthropists<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgck4obkucPk6RTKzlkWoq49giRGWIDXiULEwTQEfGJIfqBch91nBWYgwQtPgTySuAP_5Bi8m4wf48tF85ZLc6_UisiiEtNsvr-sLFdQxv1COnGoRzPNThMDYG9TzE_43zdv1cB2-hkonY/s1600/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+046+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgck4obkucPk6RTKzlkWoq49giRGWIDXiULEwTQEfGJIfqBch91nBWYgwQtPgTySuAP_5Bi8m4wf48tF85ZLc6_UisiiEtNsvr-sLFdQxv1COnGoRzPNThMDYG9TzE_43zdv1cB2-hkonY/s400/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+046+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595988506174589314" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The Kings County Savings Bank (landmarked) building at Broadway and Bedford Avenue is beginning to show its age and the toll that time has taken.</span></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-54395007774349293452011-04-15T21:27:00.002-04:002011-04-15T21:30:14.438-04:00New on Grand Street<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-Fefc4gE8Cb95YQwDhqBm4n98w6rBnpVij0xsTNPgHjm7DdzR0CvaeMmAPz8cyZti2Ax2mC27wpntBMsQV16Yg5Rxsco-MQRNSBFv2ZZNZXQzLYyvwbo4J1OOm-uGMz3-NTFvrod2Q/s1600/4-15-11+Fri+City+025+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzA-Fefc4gE8Cb95YQwDhqBm4n98w6rBnpVij0xsTNPgHjm7DdzR0CvaeMmAPz8cyZti2Ax2mC27wpntBMsQV16Yg5Rxsco-MQRNSBFv2ZZNZXQzLYyvwbo4J1OOm-uGMz3-NTFvrod2Q/s400/4-15-11+Fri+City+025+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595987437824935954" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The first new place that's opened in Williamsburg in quite a while that seems interesting; as long as they don't make a habit of this private event thing.</span></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-85746813678209734332011-04-15T21:20:00.004-04:002011-04-15T21:25:33.245-04:00How We Respect Our Heritage<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">And teach our children to respect theirs. The Williamsburg Bridge dedication plaques</span></span>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vQsgtyZBBcuyE0pRpmfgP_rIRTHhICVxl4MzW4gAsPzP6-8zlsuU6eTGFx9YHSQEFiJXYLNObtpgCVnKB-CRLMuaJhePP-gDhLPhyphenhyphenlWtA5yWiygVSuwLJ2XmTt84HyfWy-fEuFP6JaU/s1600/4-15-11+Fri+City+021+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-vQsgtyZBBcuyE0pRpmfgP_rIRTHhICVxl4MzW4gAsPzP6-8zlsuU6eTGFx9YHSQEFiJXYLNObtpgCVnKB-CRLMuaJhePP-gDhLPhyphenhyphenlWtA5yWiygVSuwLJ2XmTt84HyfWy-fEuFP6JaU/s400/4-15-11+Fri+City+021+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595985597837718210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkCAbdQmuVDJNGsIZ0xDI9f1imgkXIYXTFNLUwdOs4_D51pPgXHfCCGZvhZOPd7ErXZguBS76y0r2OjL1fpvKjuhVWlrwmUOo8ruxnYYgsCRtRAV5xke2hxsncpa-X5eA3A4LdMJb_S0/s1600/4-15-11+Fri+City+024+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkCAbdQmuVDJNGsIZ0xDI9f1imgkXIYXTFNLUwdOs4_D51pPgXHfCCGZvhZOPd7ErXZguBS76y0r2OjL1fpvKjuhVWlrwmUOo8ruxnYYgsCRtRAV5xke2hxsncpa-X5eA3A4LdMJb_S0/s400/4-15-11+Fri+City+024+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595985894023586050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiUux248gq26q1LqtVCrgfC6W083dFEA9t9qUpwh1j1uefPUlAh6KJ9fwxx6m5YfOcb7F6GSHRs5CDrfixdJ6OySk6Kobx1GDA2jKhZzHTd75q5JMKhyphenhyphenhNoVj45G6AA35TWE6glA9AFA/s1600/4-15-11+Fri+City+022+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJiUux248gq26q1LqtVCrgfC6W083dFEA9t9qUpwh1j1uefPUlAh6KJ9fwxx6m5YfOcb7F6GSHRs5CDrfixdJ6OySk6Kobx1GDA2jKhZzHTd75q5JMKhyphenhyphenhNoVj45G6AA35TWE6glA9AFA/s400/4-15-11+Fri+City+022+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5595985744526942178" border="0" /></a>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-6263143084829991982011-04-12T22:10:00.004-04:002011-04-18T20:00:45.399-04:00Also, a birthday<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBTIgj67c1hW8g5MvuZrZpKznD_t8CeFawhiJreMXXs8SZ5XNYDekp4lfFogh_PFR3UCOaf37VJfx_lE7b9GaU6NlfTWSDgbzpPoCtKW2bCfCsEyp-pP8ANI_VlINWUu93LKAFFTdJgkY/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+014+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBTIgj67c1hW8g5MvuZrZpKznD_t8CeFawhiJreMXXs8SZ5XNYDekp4lfFogh_PFR3UCOaf37VJfx_lE7b9GaU6NlfTWSDgbzpPoCtKW2bCfCsEyp-pP8ANI_VlINWUu93LKAFFTdJgkY/s400/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+014+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594881225154181250" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFozeayfpN9X6SQsKQL1ayDlVGAMSRi1U610eRWH_Bu9lVy5k8EPaPUXObWeaLBd6noyHo-nMMg9yf_xrsb6jcmRpDWjks_r7VTW8z-SAlnZQxTEj1t6S8-jfADuVMaC13sBwuxbrQ80/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+029+resadj.jpg"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Just a note that on July 31, the McCarren Pool will be 75 years old, having opened on July 31, 1936. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBTIgj67c1hW8g5MvuZrZpKznD_t8CeFawhiJreMXXs8SZ5XNYDekp4lfFogh_PFR3UCOaf37VJfx_lE7b9GaU6NlfTWSDgbzpPoCtKW2bCfCsEyp-pP8ANI_VlINWUu93LKAFFTdJgkY/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+014+resadj.jpg"><br /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFozeayfpN9X6SQsKQL1ayDlVGAMSRi1U610eRWH_Bu9lVy5k8EPaPUXObWeaLBd6noyHo-nMMg9yf_xrsb6jcmRpDWjks_r7VTW8z-SAlnZQxTEj1t6S8-jfADuVMaC13sBwuxbrQ80/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+029+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFozeayfpN9X6SQsKQL1ayDlVGAMSRi1U610eRWH_Bu9lVy5k8EPaPUXObWeaLBd6noyHo-nMMg9yf_xrsb6jcmRpDWjks_r7VTW8z-SAlnZQxTEj1t6S8-jfADuVMaC13sBwuxbrQ80/s400/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+029+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594881686711471154" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">1936 might be considered a sort of </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >annus mirabilis</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> of municipal pool construction in New York City. </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Between June 27 and August 17, through the efforts of Fiorello Laguardia, Robert Moses, and the WPA, ten pools were opened around the five boroughs, three of them in Brooklyn:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">McCarren Pool in Greenpoint, July 31</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Betsy Head Pool in Brownsville, August 7</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Sol Goldman Pool in Red Hook, August 17</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfrZCwLot3ftyGZuOoAzBHQL6j8jgwr4EyqC90t4gX1ECtXy8oFCkS9RxkX-KIcMZj7gORy_dgtT7Y_tINHrfwuyFHXQpxhB2rR5pez_bOAf8c3ch__iadY5yJlPcPY92yB8SY1db44aw/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+016+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfrZCwLot3ftyGZuOoAzBHQL6j8jgwr4EyqC90t4gX1ECtXy8oFCkS9RxkX-KIcMZj7gORy_dgtT7Y_tINHrfwuyFHXQpxhB2rR5pez_bOAf8c3ch__iadY5yJlPcPY92yB8SY1db44aw/s400/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+016+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594881906574228946" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">After being closed and neglected for almost 30 years, McCarren Pool is in the process of being rebuilt but won't be ready to reopen until the spring of 2012. McCarren Pool was the largest of the WPA pools constructed.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83uESdbVqglbgQ3KX7JM4Um-l-YokpqLFx4gcggblIIOAUtWfJRs3Lx63srOFlzNcRT7QoocrFvnWIvCw_9wY87onlN3VyFBeJKTnp_PjU9KD3WfXFGUEPlXFRyvEzRIavx1YS8wwWe8/s1600/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+015+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj83uESdbVqglbgQ3KX7JM4Um-l-YokpqLFx4gcggblIIOAUtWfJRs3Lx63srOFlzNcRT7QoocrFvnWIvCw_9wY87onlN3VyFBeJKTnp_PjU9KD3WfXFGUEPlXFRyvEzRIavx1YS8wwWe8/s400/4-10-11+Allan+Bklyn+park+015+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594881392314812130" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I wasn't able to find any "free" photos of McCarren Pool in its palmy days but, going back even further in time, I found a photograph* of the funeral of the pool's namesake, and I thought, what the hell.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_CQVltwSpGTNe82H9PRv0K8GRxS_Bc1pUqvJo559RLajxCr0WboSBAN0R2M62cxeAbbucdpkW3rLuqseDpUInvn7K3iNdNWJAyIUmJhY8qfY_z600bXfuQsTNGiNuUtnwxrw7XVRq_Q/s1600/McCarren+funeral.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 292px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU_CQVltwSpGTNe82H9PRv0K8GRxS_Bc1pUqvJo559RLajxCr0WboSBAN0R2M62cxeAbbucdpkW3rLuqseDpUInvn7K3iNdNWJAyIUmJhY8qfY_z600bXfuQsTNGiNuUtnwxrw7XVRq_Q/s400/McCarren+funeral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594885961797814050" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">*"McCarren Funeral 1909" is from the Bain Collction at the Library of Congress. Call #: LC-B2- 911-15 [P&P]</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Patrick Henry McCarren was a local politician and a state senator who died in 1909 at the age of 62. Also, unlike some people with highways or parks or pools named after them, he actually was from the neighborhood. He lived at 97 Berry Street at the time of his death and his funeral was conducted in St. Vincent de Paul Church on North 6th between Driggs and Bedford Avenues. Sadly, or perhaps not, all the ivy in the photo above has been removed . . . but replaced by scaffolding.</span><br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAB1ccpca9V3dayq-wPhCQ-oUBiLQieAiTqijdAbOuwfJKAohymncwXkY-UUQHlpj588gD_u-ObloVg2TLOWot5lmJsxJiK_LYuRiREYtZu9_ZFf3rudkKs9k9WgOAkAXwduIakeIkec/s1600/St+Vincent+de+Paul.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAB1ccpca9V3dayq-wPhCQ-oUBiLQieAiTqijdAbOuwfJKAohymncwXkY-UUQHlpj588gD_u-ObloVg2TLOWot5lmJsxJiK_LYuRiREYtZu9_ZFf3rudkKs9k9WgOAkAXwduIakeIkec/s400/St+Vincent+de+Paul.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5597077438137819410" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >By the way, anyone interested in the transformation of New York City under Robert Moses could do worse than get a copy of: </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Transformation of New York</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >. Edited by Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson, W.W. Norton, 2007. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" >It is a beautiful and comprehensive book covering Moses's career as master builder (for good or ill) in New York, and is lavishly illustrated with period and contemporary photos.</span><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-55716908183040822011-04-12T20:36:00.005-04:002011-04-12T21:04:24.822-04:00In the cross-hairs!<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A week or so ago I was walking from Williamsburg to Flatbush for okra. Yes, people do that sort of thing; some people, anyway. There are a couple of vegetable places on Church Ave. near Ocean Avenue that have great deals on okra by the pound. In lots of places you're forced into buying those little cellophane-covered packages with six or eight pieces for a buck. Bah!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So, on my way along Bedford Ave. in Bed-Stuy, at the corner of Gates Ave. to be precise, I came cross this new . . . structure.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4rgQJbLQ9NWnTTrYLya9H8GcBIP-CX4LXavN3n4YGQyFKVgvXOyD6BrJ9fzRHA7jubUKESYlKXZusJXac-r21iK7X2XO8aMa0Iy6UgqJYc0i9daSXISj3zuS2J5CRIyayNNj6bWMxGY8/s1600/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+042+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4rgQJbLQ9NWnTTrYLya9H8GcBIP-CX4LXavN3n4YGQyFKVgvXOyD6BrJ9fzRHA7jubUKESYlKXZusJXac-r21iK7X2XO8aMa0Iy6UgqJYc0i9daSXISj3zuS2J5CRIyayNNj6bWMxGY8/s400/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+042+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594867697310580850" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Check out the prices. FROM $195,000. I take it that means the lowest price? A studio?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I walk around and through Bed-Stuy quite a bit and I think I can venture a guess that very few people in the neighborhood could pony up the cash for a $195,000 condo, or anything close to it. But that's not really the point, is it?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It's in the way of an advisory for Bed-Stuy that it's now in the developers' cross-hairs. Watch out, Bed-Stuy, your days may be numbered, your neighborhood could be up for grabs before you know it; and chances are you won't be a winner.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-80405292309855636782011-04-06T20:36:00.025-04:002011-04-07T09:22:31.713-04:00Curiouser and Curiouser<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Back in December, I mentioned that HSBC, who had maintained a branch in the landmarked original Williamsburgh Bank building at Driggs Ave. and Broadway, had suddenly decamped, removing all their garish 21st century signage, and opened a branch further north at Bedford Ave. and North 3rd Street.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvLy8V8NDEivw9xXqMOM7OrRZ5VO3YBMfOsK1_cwNBAbnT1aQTcBVmxpUtFpfRgPHPOl2ttfM_cCwt5CvYh4Kz5H8vWZ0MITh02XuUjPtppLY3WI2tFyu5pr3D9LvXmFjTRv6x2FE6qls/s1600/Bank+Ja+2011+resadj+.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvLy8V8NDEivw9xXqMOM7OrRZ5VO3YBMfOsK1_cwNBAbnT1aQTcBVmxpUtFpfRgPHPOl2ttfM_cCwt5CvYh4Kz5H8vWZ0MITh02XuUjPtppLY3WI2tFyu5pr3D9LvXmFjTRv6x2FE6qls/s400/Bank+Ja+2011+resadj+.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592646676941607458" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Until February, the building stood empty and lifeless with no hint of what was to be done with it. It is landmarked both outside and inside so any owners' or tenants' options are limited, at least in the sense that the building can't be torn down. But even a cursory glance at "vintage" buildings in the city (and here in Brooklyn) should be enough to assure anyone that a late-19th-century, neoclassical building in pristine condition like this one could be, so to speak, money in the bank.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiVB2KYKm3XM9zgRXXtj5xoaD5HTb78VwH6H67HMfTDkR-bTGMxRAaSoCO8zdh3p225fF0M1v9oTyukCHD9vqzmCnEa105eKlc-BK-UBo25OoMJOsCxNiLUo0Xw8aPB8UEv2jgOklfvY/s1600/Bank+facade+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOiVB2KYKm3XM9zgRXXtj5xoaD5HTb78VwH6H67HMfTDkR-bTGMxRAaSoCO8zdh3p225fF0M1v9oTyukCHD9vqzmCnEa105eKlc-BK-UBo25OoMJOsCxNiLUo0Xw8aPB8UEv2jgOklfvY/s400/Bank+facade+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592647285365393074" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Then, at the beginning of February, a large white construction tarp appeared on the west side of the building, covering the entire side, with big "debris tubes" hanging out and leading to dumpsters below.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR_8KaZRLQpHgCSg6aoqiqniU2iABtsQeVe5vevcp2az1JnMT3dlz-8Av4fSbasYsuV6eXd8MvYQcb0A_b7DORxj_kpoRg8QeJS7D7Xrxz3g3e730VPneJLsk4JqUVHQ1O_TDsQKQMH4/s1600/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+015+resadj.jpg"><br /></a><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtzrPrfQ2RSeV8wvyZYX7nEpaKgZE9EiVHpcUVQKnUmQeNMuScyvqZmp6oNb1dTvyRw3_c4ZOQ9blLFMG5l1vxUzlWLlft1hHCUNcS4qxKboEHuhximD-nQSg1gq_Rq0QM1_u9IyF6XU/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+007+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMtzrPrfQ2RSeV8wvyZYX7nEpaKgZE9EiVHpcUVQKnUmQeNMuScyvqZmp6oNb1dTvyRw3_c4ZOQ9blLFMG5l1vxUzlWLlft1hHCUNcS4qxKboEHuhximD-nQSg1gq_Rq0QM1_u9IyF6XU/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+007+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592653163702718082" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This was intriguing since I thought landmarked buildings had to be treated with white glove care. But I figured maybe they were just clearing out the upper floors of material that was easier to junk than move out.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5N37h6HA9io8B1AiKr3327q-E8PzoMhBQFG3YOmUdlr5y1dc5lGTeYeXMRtep9n-15eccMkNzIiQEjCEN_V-diflF3B08tvWe973dH-LuGgeNLkN6ZcZHCxKO1DGmOILjuNCFdipfWig/s1600/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+013+resadj.jpg"><br /></a><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR_8KaZRLQpHgCSg6aoqiqniU2iABtsQeVe5vevcp2az1JnMT3dlz-8Av4fSbasYsuV6eXd8MvYQcb0A_b7DORxj_kpoRg8QeJS7D7Xrxz3g3e730VPneJLsk4JqUVHQ1O_TDsQKQMH4/s1600/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+015+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYR_8KaZRLQpHgCSg6aoqiqniU2iABtsQeVe5vevcp2az1JnMT3dlz-8Av4fSbasYsuV6eXd8MvYQcb0A_b7DORxj_kpoRg8QeJS7D7Xrxz3g3e730VPneJLsk4JqUVHQ1O_TDsQKQMH4/s400/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+015+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592649798195141202" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I hadn't given it much notice over the past month until last weekend when, purely by accident, I noticed graffiti had suddenly appeared near a front cornice. Then, on looking closer, I realized that the wall where the graffiti had appeared shouldn't have been visible. They were tearing down part of the bank!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-PgxlmKu65N9ewSRjOPxGQHNHrR75C_WACWOv2DS4_ahBsJTygde5QlliAPYQ8ajf2ooqqpgeP3FNhkUlj1eEzsloj_VJjZICdTHRTuQZAlNum8_h553ZF8g5gzkQrAF9GkfqgAXqO0/s1600/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+043+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_-PgxlmKu65N9ewSRjOPxGQHNHrR75C_WACWOv2DS4_ahBsJTygde5QlliAPYQ8ajf2ooqqpgeP3FNhkUlj1eEzsloj_VJjZICdTHRTuQZAlNum8_h553ZF8g5gzkQrAF9GkfqgAXqO0/s400/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+043+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592651923771256898" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyewet3GiWQGXScVXCqxN6oWo7JxKkKeLoEvF2J_eMeVN8XdRPaj_aDBegsce1NM900uSW4B6kzaGMUnJHDULCVZLfnunmpcHOjku6O3QQqGOPGB1S2JzqzAd6mDOMXV1IRuSsV-tyrK4/s1600/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+044+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyewet3GiWQGXScVXCqxN6oWo7JxKkKeLoEvF2J_eMeVN8XdRPaj_aDBegsce1NM900uSW4B6kzaGMUnJHDULCVZLfnunmpcHOjku6O3QQqGOPGB1S2JzqzAd6mDOMXV1IRuSsV-tyrK4/s400/4-3-11+Sun+Okra+walk+044+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592652294961236594" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But before going off half-cocked and complaining to someone, I figured I should check up on the building's history just a bit. And, as it turns out, the section they are demolishing was never part of the original bank building at all, just a very cleverly designed addition in a similar style. Still, they have managed to damage part of the original cornice of the bank.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdx4oPetFpeaF3rX7SuZL9msbs43v6vA9D8LIXhyJmpbYLdKRe7wCqNggRoF66_wSnRJJhOONg_j3crlZvVOXo-vGqfxe6IjgjCzF5dB7E43Q2m9cWmexTawp1PzQoZwDVc5gkIoNVSiY/s1600/6-30-10+Bank+4+adj.+resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdx4oPetFpeaF3rX7SuZL9msbs43v6vA9D8LIXhyJmpbYLdKRe7wCqNggRoF66_wSnRJJhOONg_j3crlZvVOXo-vGqfxe6IjgjCzF5dB7E43Q2m9cWmexTawp1PzQoZwDVc5gkIoNVSiY/s400/6-30-10+Bank+4+adj.+resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592652784781045858" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I don't have any photos of the bank when it was first built but I recalled a book I had gotten from the BPL that contained a sketch drawing of the bank in 1889 and also a sketch map of Broadway in 1893, both showing the bank without that addition. Whew!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The name of the book, by the way, is </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Brooklyn's Williamsburgh: A City within a City</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, Brian Merlis, Brooklyn: Israelowitz Pub., 2005. Brian Merlis has a whole raft of books of vintage photos of most neighborhoods in Brooklyn.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now all I am wondering is why, if they are demolishing the damn thing, are they only demolishing the second and third floors and, apparently, keeping the first floor? I'm sure it would look better removed completely. Stay tuned.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfNZ8_ZMlANJNWyT7prYG1T-5pnVDTFfowtCRtnERhpUhemgvq0HEYkHZht5suNsWASDZulV86656Hyg69INRlL_-Ojme7AWwgZXsD_GIvGY9w0MoDIX5R32WOr5LLJkkCOJShKOi-Nfs/s1600/4-4-11+City+013+cropresadjsharp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfNZ8_ZMlANJNWyT7prYG1T-5pnVDTFfowtCRtnERhpUhemgvq0HEYkHZht5suNsWASDZulV86656Hyg69INRlL_-Ojme7AWwgZXsD_GIvGY9w0MoDIX5R32WOr5LLJkkCOJShKOi-Nfs/s400/4-4-11+City+013+cropresadjsharp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592653688071695922" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-75125050996114165172011-03-22T13:30:00.004-04:002011-03-22T13:45:53.272-04:00New Building in Brooklyn<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A couple of articles concerned with the new buildings going up in so many areas of the borough.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I'll add them without comment since anyone who has read any of my posts shouldn't have a difficult time guessing what my comments might be.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">These are from <span style="font-style: italic;">The</span> </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >New York Times</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, which is turning "pay to read" on March 28, so if you want to check them out, do it before then. Though, if you paste the title of an article into Google you can sometimes find a free site reprinting it.<br /><br /><br />The Supersizer of Brooklyn</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:78%;" ><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:12pt;" ></span></span><!--EndFragment--><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20KeyScofflaw-t.html?ref=magazine">Click on this link.</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">How a Building Dispute Can Sink a Sale</span></span><!--EndFragment--><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/nyregion/22appraisal.html?ref=nyregion">Click on this link.</a></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-88618915836517541772011-03-16T20:24:00.043-04:002011-03-18T14:50:59.061-04:00Gott strafe die Nachbar<span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k7ggXQ38YehzRBtDJE7q1InSpnPVh0ylK8-bVTTIfUb_t-yfDSrTfuSpkLlVv6Yz2YMtNzmRhyEV9Mf0Kpel5x7nHcp31DFGeiO-jaVn4IFnmCCM30gYrwXZLTsbSFYFb3fga133ii8/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+021+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5k7ggXQ38YehzRBtDJE7q1InSpnPVh0ylK8-bVTTIfUb_t-yfDSrTfuSpkLlVv6Yz2YMtNzmRhyEV9Mf0Kpel5x7nHcp31DFGeiO-jaVn4IFnmCCM30gYrwXZLTsbSFYFb3fga133ii8/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+021+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584848023492809154" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>600</o:Words> <o:characters>3423</o:Characters> <o:lines>28</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>6</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>4203</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1287</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; panose-1:0 2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:50331648 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:.5in .5in .5in .5in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >I should be keeping up this damn blog far, far better than I have been. God knows I am out walking around the borough each weekend for hours now that the weather is improving. It’s not unusual for me to get home on Saturday afternoon with over 200 photos on the old point-and-shoot (not that all of them are very interesting). I have spent the past three weekends, post-library visit, wandering down through Park Slope into Gowanus, and thence to Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, Dumbo, and so on. Last </span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >weekend was part of Red Hook and a neighborhood I had never been in before, Columbia Street down along the waterfront.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0a6mMgsIVftoHHszCtrE8O7jOEB4xaPqRJBw1ZEK4yWpTst7rOEZWyWtjQWql38Y9U-0NQsHBeyQOmAU4I_mTgAl5XXfwXmnsWPSnFBX1E-liHqyBvhpD4f4dr49T4xGDyrHdAEjkXe0/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+008+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0a6mMgsIVftoHHszCtrE8O7jOEB4xaPqRJBw1ZEK4yWpTst7rOEZWyWtjQWql38Y9U-0NQsHBeyQOmAU4I_mTgAl5XXfwXmnsWPSnFBX1E-liHqyBvhpD4f4dr49T4xGDyrHdAEjkXe0/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+008+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584848211648341490" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">But, when it comes to sitting down in front of the P.C. and sorting through the photos and resampling and color correcting and figuring on something to write, I need to concentrate my mind, and thereby hangs a problem. I have two annoying neighbors. One is annoying only occasionally and doesn’t really impinge upon my blogging to any great extent. The other, nearer, neighbor is annoying almost constantly. We share a tissue paper-thin common wall in a 100+-year-old building that was thrown up at a time when the loudest noise you might hear from a neighbor was a squalling baby.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLvdMHBQd6fqNL61remaI2QeO9VbXHdeA7zgBNWDig76WZrled8vhJ4yk_3JEG48XW2-PkVxxaxJyUUzYosI9Aq2y6cs0-RskuXyOM894oC1FnLrzRnerLSQuQv51SM6xLykrGqeBN1U/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+020+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXLvdMHBQd6fqNL61remaI2QeO9VbXHdeA7zgBNWDig76WZrled8vhJ4yk_3JEG48XW2-PkVxxaxJyUUzYosI9Aq2y6cs0-RskuXyOM894oC1FnLrzRnerLSQuQv51SM6xLykrGqeBN1U/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+020+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584843949979251778" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I won’t go into details but suffice it to say that as soon as I sit down to work on the blog, something starts up. I hope the situation will be resolved sooner rather than later, but until something happens <i>there</i></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >, not much will be happening </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>here</i></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" >.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5-kUafVYg9MRTcRjTsgHcUrQrnWMcz2Dg3VVfLq1qBRcSefy3j28id-LInWMxQPBQERw6T4gZcRSLr9E7LmtjPOSAxozuKr_IZNznobiS21X-EurYWswzN9bHjbvOKcvGxH1iQNiq7U/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+017+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5-kUafVYg9MRTcRjTsgHcUrQrnWMcz2Dg3VVfLq1qBRcSefy3j28id-LInWMxQPBQERw6T4gZcRSLr9E7LmtjPOSAxozuKr_IZNznobiS21X-EurYWswzN9bHjbvOKcvGxH1iQNiq7U/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+017+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584843600741109714" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">As an inveterate reader of detective fiction and suspense, I used to come upon a phrase in older books that were set during World War I: <i>Gott strafe England!</i></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" > Some Prussian character would often be screaming this while trying to drown or otherwise dispose of the book’s hero. All I can find to say now is </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><i>Gott strafe die Nachbar!!</i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvE08tq3F4-grwkMqqY2gBSXXELt2_NuY7d84EATT6G8waWlWiW5lmn-9NADRSMMLd94bNx9l6w2frQYyw6Gr5u06P0wPKH6nu57Lms1GW0SW3Alq8s4ntIc06VBHzwPb3WtUP7PiAATA/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+015+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvE08tq3F4-grwkMqqY2gBSXXELt2_NuY7d84EATT6G8waWlWiW5lmn-9NADRSMMLd94bNx9l6w2frQYyw6Gr5u06P0wPKH6nu57Lms1GW0SW3Alq8s4ntIc06VBHzwPb3WtUP7PiAATA/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+015+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584841720154802898" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><i><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">However, in view of the dismal tone of this posting, it seemed like a good opportunity to post some equally dismal photos. All the photos here show what Admirals’ Row in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been reduced to. You might describe it as vandalism through malign neglect.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dJOuGSmLbHvC2qIn24h-HVpRGvmogc3_moADWiwJhqAkPYHMZUeoceVmDjHjpA7tEhdplUFGOR6_yTMfllAEhT13L7NRLXt_alhM6814ov9QE_i6LiSiC9mvBJQ-WXJas_b_yeE-Omk/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+012+resadjcrop.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7dJOuGSmLbHvC2qIn24h-HVpRGvmogc3_moADWiwJhqAkPYHMZUeoceVmDjHjpA7tEhdplUFGOR6_yTMfllAEhT13L7NRLXt_alhM6814ov9QE_i6LiSiC9mvBJQ-WXJas_b_yeE-Omk/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+012+resadjcrop.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584841490082840418" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Despite pleas from preservationists, historians, architects, etc. the federal government at first, and later New York City when the Navy Yard fell into its hands, refused to do anything to either restore the houses or, at best, just contain their disintegration. (Admiral’s Row refers to a group of officers’ quarters that were built in one corner of the Navy Yard; they are along Nassau Street near Navy Street.)</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tqQuhyPkB9O84sMEm8qEzX9MnYB_TSWDKMMyoFVaVexPhN2crkPRK9UwG4l626BSw1VgPZE7rmfLSmZLTbd6yPiLke4Ek-ZDvyUQfFRWruWRFCL2HmTFi4hRU9nvpZWT9P6WxCpcSuU/s1600/5-9-10+Dwntwn+Bklyn+021+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8tqQuhyPkB9O84sMEm8qEzX9MnYB_TSWDKMMyoFVaVexPhN2crkPRK9UwG4l626BSw1VgPZE7rmfLSmZLTbd6yPiLke4Ek-ZDvyUQfFRWruWRFCL2HmTFi4hRU9nvpZWT9P6WxCpcSuU/s400/5-9-10+Dwntwn+Bklyn+021+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584840578786185394" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyM779ajJJ2xov1kbWCWbVWiy6ZEU-P_eTj4unacSZmYb1Y7wVHlS2Wb6ZIYIhPHe7IXoYEwCkRvhJazA_JGCtyeYN3MLb-AinYxkzK9IZZXEoxwtMZPc6gsU98UbOHXw3igsCS3VkWlk/s1600/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+130+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyM779ajJJ2xov1kbWCWbVWiy6ZEU-P_eTj4unacSZmYb1Y7wVHlS2Wb6ZIYIhPHe7IXoYEwCkRvhJazA_JGCtyeYN3MLb-AinYxkzK9IZZXEoxwtMZPc6gsU98UbOHXw3igsCS3VkWlk/s400/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+130+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584840896256161618" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The City, in the person of Michael Bloomberg, is interested in little but the absolute bottom-line commercial possibilities of the Navy Yard and lacked the foresight to see that those possibilities could have been greatly enhanced by a restoration of the Navy Yard to even a fraction of its former appearance.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEfqj-35PTdt3TLBolHR_AtUIMkQJxd33hFWpaB0np_fpm1_wVC1USgLhCUYa_jTCAwzSHKH3KWbNATQheql789HTY2poMvbZvQETjS55vhzeZFbNY-nRtQl7T7Qcx8C2bOOjN4mBUP0/s1600/5-9-10+Dwntwn+Bklyn+007+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsEfqj-35PTdt3TLBolHR_AtUIMkQJxd33hFWpaB0np_fpm1_wVC1USgLhCUYa_jTCAwzSHKH3KWbNATQheql789HTY2poMvbZvQETjS55vhzeZFbNY-nRtQl7T7Qcx8C2bOOjN4mBUP0/s400/5-9-10+Dwntwn+Bklyn+007+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584850372199075154" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Better to let Admiral’s Row molder into dust and be choked by vines and then torn down and replaced by some innocuous glass box.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnr4OP3Qm-1WuYB0rNK861oeZYpDJbDNg78rmjiEVUWjx4mp23YF2QvtazH3FZNME1WJ9-y2vceEQuyznWi0fwcOrsd95rRiNRdCf_h3F0Rq7yKfBZly8OEfMd6-g6wbkJQnBeViU76Jk/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+007+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnr4OP3Qm-1WuYB0rNK861oeZYpDJbDNg78rmjiEVUWjx4mp23YF2QvtazH3FZNME1WJ9-y2vceEQuyznWi0fwcOrsd95rRiNRdCf_h3F0Rq7yKfBZly8OEfMd6-g6wbkJQnBeViU76Jk/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+007+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584841282432782770" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I suppose if you’re William Wordsworth, there is a kind of beauty to these vine chocked ruins though it resembles <i>Germany Year Zero</i></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" > more than the English Lake District.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZGHfF9_H1_l_N9duEY3hVSxTDnFBcdnTQIP5A5CMSGpfRxBfM1aJvyc579mDEAo7kqDR9IBKPjSp8JX9a_tHPfDZQ0i0eBAytKK4oAtgUH0y_QH0UZLUUEzFAZCj59bYm-SeMYiwQpE/s1600/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+125+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDZGHfF9_H1_l_N9duEY3hVSxTDnFBcdnTQIP5A5CMSGpfRxBfM1aJvyc579mDEAo7kqDR9IBKPjSp8JX9a_tHPfDZQ0i0eBAytKK4oAtgUH0y_QH0UZLUUEzFAZCj59bYm-SeMYiwQpE/s400/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+125+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584840425424410130" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Even a lick of blue paint on the gate posts or walls or a little rust proofing on the fences might prevent it becoming just another eyesore.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFclt7H1roVs3K1KN1VxUOFofA_6NYlUykCsONjAVv3EZ3xDjR25RNLX_NJsGX-CMnN9wxrdLn2ed7SfooWct3PGY5rHB2-RgHRJbEHSnrwTVjKdMS19BD2_d45MRMaaUT99qoUcq3I4k/s1600/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+004+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFclt7H1roVs3K1KN1VxUOFofA_6NYlUykCsONjAVv3EZ3xDjR25RNLX_NJsGX-CMnN9wxrdLn2ed7SfooWct3PGY5rHB2-RgHRJbEHSnrwTVjKdMS19BD2_d45MRMaaUT99qoUcq3I4k/s400/3-13-11+Sun+dntwn+Bklyn+004+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584841117583121890" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx4C-el6JOdV-GqluRnr8wnZBWsu8PeMEPVW-oBW0XcUZVXRSCtcrj1V2IVpGoER0Do3SKaf-JEMNVfxX3pWLDM-O5Bv5W3B3l4oIYGv5JW1FSFrqgnZtOHOh3lNwcJDHBzLYNXSzHMk/s1600/5-8-10+Sat+walk+139+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx4C-el6JOdV-GqluRnr8wnZBWsu8PeMEPVW-oBW0XcUZVXRSCtcrj1V2IVpGoER0Do3SKaf-JEMNVfxX3pWLDM-O5Bv5W3B3l4oIYGv5JW1FSFrqgnZtOHOh3lNwcJDHBzLYNXSzHMk/s400/5-8-10+Sat+walk+139+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584839646268210786" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The Sands Street entrance once made a striking sight but after the police impound lot took over, “fuhget about it!” Those eagles will never soar again.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPd7Cn7CTanzj3-RV6agGqeKSlkFchNPqWxuyUDPwAcBs9e00NTHnl3wrfpZuP6ZK841uDPxYDPdCD6qQdP8T00j_E3CcNwCvrolq8sNqjSeReCGNrsPKaw8jvqjVIzSZyCafVRa8olok/s1600/Sand+St+BNY+1904+sepia.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPd7Cn7CTanzj3-RV6agGqeKSlkFchNPqWxuyUDPwAcBs9e00NTHnl3wrfpZuP6ZK841uDPxYDPdCD6qQdP8T00j_E3CcNwCvrolq8sNqjSeReCGNrsPKaw8jvqjVIzSZyCafVRa8olok/s400/Sand+St+BNY+1904+sepia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585134784165595906" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" >Sands Street entrance, 1904. From the collection of the Library of Congress</span><span style="font-size:78%;">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOjHU2barTGLWP6h_qZVlooGuylDqQWyzKHAPsZehyphenhyphen0GF-etfhgWcp5f_etDqHBCVZvjbIErBKR_6ZFt79KdC50E2Js5RkumF4ZIMmv4Ck70I8qcibxp_uHe64VgrM2liEFhCORwjssU/s1600/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+096+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOjHU2barTGLWP6h_qZVlooGuylDqQWyzKHAPsZehyphenhyphen0GF-etfhgWcp5f_etDqHBCVZvjbIErBKR_6ZFt79KdC50E2Js5RkumF4ZIMmv4Ck70I8qcibxp_uHe64VgrM2liEFhCORwjssU/s400/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+096+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584851661194876706" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5eZZA1BhmVASRpTHDfff6xmZ5fOegPwF-4-Yv4MnM1y5BMAwMpLZvFnlybNSvzow0GzgyxSuvsjsrR2sKO9dSuSok1QjPNPjb5SfkijipyIFXpYTlcjpZL7qZ3cWREyJ1g6alSweSZnw/s1600/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+128+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5eZZA1BhmVASRpTHDfff6xmZ5fOegPwF-4-Yv4MnM1y5BMAwMpLZvFnlybNSvzow0GzgyxSuvsjsrR2sKO9dSuSok1QjPNPjb5SfkijipyIFXpYTlcjpZL7qZ3cWREyJ1g6alSweSZnw/s400/2-12-11+City-Bklyn+128+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584849954794280322" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The city <i>is</i></span><span style="font-style: normal;font-size:85%;" > restoring one small building to act simply as an entrance to some jazzy construction. We should be grateful for tiny favors, I guess. But rather than a sop to our sensibilities, I really would rather be able to walk around inside or walk through the place. Instead it’s locked down like the equivalent of the Indian Point nuclear reactor.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9dDjszhShWtDI8FuUqgnsUn4ql5JKRcSGcNpObNq9jyBSQ9POB7SFRBeGvvxqsyyUqgyDTdeA7-wOTyXBn8PLenIM9UTJ_gJzUUiZl3J7znodFS7dybGZwDYMkxyE7X-najW2A9S_do/s1600/3-5-11+Sat+Bklyn+walk+205+resadj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq9dDjszhShWtDI8FuUqgnsUn4ql5JKRcSGcNpObNq9jyBSQ9POB7SFRBeGvvxqsyyUqgyDTdeA7-wOTyXBn8PLenIM9UTJ_gJzUUiZl3J7znodFS7dybGZwDYMkxyE7X-najW2A9S_do/s400/3-5-11+Sat+Bklyn+walk+205+resadj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584851117401723666" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">There are businesses in there. Well, there are business establishments all over the city and they seem to survive without tall fences and guards. Suppose 5<sup>th</sup> Avenue were closed off because Tiffany is there?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoT0LSjpiv-9vdPDHBMs8sH2PZTbws2lEjpKyFbZ07XIxErrcPp5IQg9fNmJyIxk0zllkzq9F7poebGy_SWooF_28clAAbQClb0nombenXKS_jIR3SpiiuM7omFRrOUmTCnNzpYsaDY5k/s1600/Navy+copy+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoT0LSjpiv-9vdPDHBMs8sH2PZTbws2lEjpKyFbZ07XIxErrcPp5IQg9fNmJyIxk0zllkzq9F7poebGy_SWooF_28clAAbQClb0nombenXKS_jIR3SpiiuM7omFRrOUmTCnNzpYsaDY5k/s400/Navy+copy+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585489567405165778" border="0" /></a></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">An overview of the Navy Yard showing (yellow line) detour necessary because of Navy Yard lockout. Admiral's Row is at far left. The "C"-shaped building near the far right of the yard is the Old United States Naval Hospital and has been landmarked. I believe that is boarded up, too.</span></span><br /></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><span style="font-size:85%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Washington Ave. runs through the Yard from Clinton Hill to Williamsburg; it’s practically a straight shot. But rather than let us walk through and save an enormous detour, we’re locked out for fear we might . . . what . . . riot and destroy the place? Give me a break. Open the damn thing up, Mike!</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3LBfRjbWK4cqCN0Z6MatnJFDl9wSCjMeSKvT-9iEvet6FyLef-oI6Fey0IQ9NBub2_VHLB3jTYO6J7e2goDZJ4-NrzBg4mU7PSt5C1Tby-e_OCbgH4xjyo9Zw2hhSsAOiFGTffEayymQ/s1600/5-15-10c"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3LBfRjbWK4cqCN0Z6MatnJFDl9wSCjMeSKvT-9iEvet6FyLef-oI6Fey0IQ9NBub2_VHLB3jTYO6J7e2goDZJ4-NrzBg4mU7PSt5C1Tby-e_OCbgH4xjyo9Zw2hhSsAOiFGTffEayymQ/s400/5-15-10c" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5585490094231722994" border="0" /></a></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p 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trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" >Top photo is view from Flushing Ave. across to Williamsburg; the large apartment block is at Kent Ave. Bottom photo is Williamsburg gate.</span><br /></p> <!--EndFragment--><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0Q_tXj1ZlaOiCHjEGmHQLAtMVg8WTQ6Kk7AJoqvVsXfll_rosILC_lhZAYRf25ss8ItwH1yiVCmOiZaOk1zZO__LYntynD8zeu6vH0VoCSajw6XNmIkKASDTSiSgVxdMsZrGyg21zIA/s1600/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+119+res+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" 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damn dreary with the remnants of dirty snow hanging around and bare trees and gray skies that I’ve still been keeping close to home, aside from a couple of quick forays to the library.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">A couple of minor things . . .</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLf4Lf1P49inTZA2EhJYN-ejl7SLmJmaJm0bGAVt1YamEaAWoos_K3NqeI_IA705xCbB5PYgNSa-FJlf0CoLq_vOwRRW7yMdP86Q75eRRMi85C1G1WDSBlKhk_srGG7nF7Quk_3hcpts/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+007+res+adj.jpg"><img 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At least, I assume they still own the building. They seem to be doing renovations inside if the big yellow debris tube hanging off the side of the building is any indication. The inside as well as the outside of the building is landmarked, though maybe not all of it; maybe just the main floor, I'm not sure how those things work. What is happening is happening up on the top floor. (I am usually more full of questions than answers.)<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvhCOF2UCfRuufYaGXwSAz58c9l-CTk9j7v-1KSb8M9ix17hBpPYdAnYKay1NVg6jazlJbNpnPqNrg2HyKfUSkrpGsLSvXNQBJdKWMAAaEVDLesKMTogoaUIwxu-x5YnLgNMZAs6EH50/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+005+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYvhCOF2UCfRuufYaGXwSAz58c9l-CTk9j7v-1KSb8M9ix17hBpPYdAnYKay1NVg6jazlJbNpnPqNrg2HyKfUSkrpGsLSvXNQBJdKWMAAaEVDLesKMTogoaUIwxu-x5YnLgNMZAs6EH50/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+005+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571468191037562306" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">And speaking of landmarking. One of my favorite streets on my way to the library has been proposed as a landmark district. It is most of Vanderbilt Ave. between Park Ave. and Myrtle Ave. It's proposed as the Wallabout Historic District. This is where those several cute little clapboard houses are that I mentioned in an earlier post. Some of the street has been rebuilt with new structures and even though they were designed to disrupt the look of the street as little as possible, they are recent and are excluded, but most of the block is included.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">You can see the map here if you're interested, under Proposed Districts: <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/maps/historic_district.shtml">Proposed Wallabout Historic District</a><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKQZVehNJ_tdIO6MoYYhQ7EyvpELuEdH9s_2n1YcVQKSDeLZwwCBa8fmdhhx6cc1HNUjLGoNNIDE78aSz6F0_6Sd6viCtcmctIqxQqbABLb0BvRIYI6H7noVcCjFuWGMT3cmAItlk-5c/s1600/Vand+20+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaKQZVehNJ_tdIO6MoYYhQ7EyvpELuEdH9s_2n1YcVQKSDeLZwwCBa8fmdhhx6cc1HNUjLGoNNIDE78aSz6F0_6Sd6viCtcmctIqxQqbABLb0BvRIYI6H7noVcCjFuWGMT3cmAItlk-5c/s400/Vand+20+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571468895243244034" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbPCZsBcGG31ZvZlMvvGm9hHwMSL3Gw4Cye8EHrhqzTZ3aNhREwwHF7csHWoHgPEwiWKd3a7EitOJG5hZxvBiDcIMHXqVpymZCcaqDmYDNKQvXwJoLRIggYwvYxWaRX6dlM4-HN7ogok/s1600/Vand+21+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbPCZsBcGG31ZvZlMvvGm9hHwMSL3Gw4Cye8EHrhqzTZ3aNhREwwHF7csHWoHgPEwiWKd3a7EitOJG5hZxvBiDcIMHXqVpymZCcaqDmYDNKQvXwJoLRIggYwvYxWaRX6dlM4-HN7ogok/s400/Vand+21+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571469142770698722" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdC_kaWanS6e6z7AlyP3OZf4TYXzigpQJm8v6kKTxSwriI-RFwNwhzeJ8rc98jXous_-iy8xmmshmQpYA-WHPDnoh7YWnee-l7Ez1gXl6uj41feMWx5Uz2Q0XJUsh-vzXyTM1rFVbpNQ/s1600/Vand+24+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdC_kaWanS6e6z7AlyP3OZf4TYXzigpQJm8v6kKTxSwriI-RFwNwhzeJ8rc98jXous_-iy8xmmshmQpYA-WHPDnoh7YWnee-l7Ez1gXl6uj41feMWx5Uz2Q0XJUsh-vzXyTM1rFVbpNQ/s400/Vand+24+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571469450013251954" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhW0DjKzfKcvGCWD5vrtcLdx0EuhMqQGuWDRkP5xcxuZ5XUSV80MzDcI_BUZbMAvQrHZtZUlgL3pfyqIWyn09rrA4LY9XQ6ioozVDXtR2VKQQ8l01phyLi-JpwdhrLctQt-JTghlFSjA/s1600/Vand+18+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhW0DjKzfKcvGCWD5vrtcLdx0EuhMqQGuWDRkP5xcxuZ5XUSV80MzDcI_BUZbMAvQrHZtZUlgL3pfyqIWyn09rrA4LY9XQ6ioozVDXtR2VKQQ8l01phyLi-JpwdhrLctQt-JTghlFSjA/s400/Vand+18+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571469690534850466" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Vanderbilt Ave. bet. Park Ave. & Myrtle Ave.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">And I discovered when I looked at the actual map that the Fillmore Place Historic District nearby me in Williamsburg, actually takes in more than I thought: not just Fillmore Place itself but some buildings and an empty lot on Driggs Ave. across from the mouth of Fillmore Place. This includes Henry Miller’s childhood home (the edge of it is in the picture below to the far right).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">You can see the map here if interested , under New Districts: <a href="http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/maps/historic_district.shtml">Fillmore Place Historic District.</a><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUNTsUG-Q4HgnJIep38Q3mykDSjXA1xoDrWijZKP4ZKeDrP7ByncCelwx6-o-qOAGWtiwHYfmLEstzCLHYQX7mnsj7qIvmhOPlg34B2zNe40HX9UzcqRnkO5sffdgvT3mU_mGWgKUk54/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+012+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUNTsUG-Q4HgnJIep38Q3mykDSjXA1xoDrWijZKP4ZKeDrP7ByncCelwx6-o-qOAGWtiwHYfmLEstzCLHYQX7mnsj7qIvmhOPlg34B2zNe40HX9UzcqRnkO5sffdgvT3mU_mGWgKUk54/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+012+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571471606988099506" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> It got me to wondering what happens when you want to build on an empty lot in an historic district. I’d guess you’d have to pass muster by the Landmarks Commission, but does that mean you’d have to build in the style of what is there now? That empty lot looks just fine as it is (it looks better in the spring & summer), but a small corner structure across the street (not shown) is for sale; I wonder if people realize what they’re getting into when they buy in an historic district</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">An opening and a closing at opposite ends of a block. A long time deli near the Bedford Ave. L station closed last month. There is now plywood surrounding the storefront to keep us in suspense.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLuMIHeqd5rM_elKG0096efli7Bjt6j84tpsEr4dFPJPbi553kl-LH3VqFz9daRDPu-MIgvlN7w0q4FlCryRfNWqNmCcDlg5lneMEuYpvd5bNHxZBJX-3t4dTwpmV9-nB9fAp2b9gZq8/s1600/1-8-11+Bklyn+and+Allan+003+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVLuMIHeqd5rM_elKG0096efli7Bjt6j84tpsEr4dFPJPbi553kl-LH3VqFz9daRDPu-MIgvlN7w0q4FlCryRfNWqNmCcDlg5lneMEuYpvd5bNHxZBJX-3t4dTwpmV9-nB9fAp2b9gZq8/s400/1-8-11+Bklyn+and+Allan+003+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571524596680581650" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Bedford Ave. & North 7th St.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">At the opposite end of the block at Driggs Ave. a long derelict storefront has opened as a hot dog store (the photo was taken before work finished).</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkHAYwL2cZy1VPxFZL9tlENBwvkBGt3uQXw4iEF3JogUeTjjJSi4gY5cS3Wv8-IMv_oNtLGe4aeEBoB9KYJVmDoVrti980lEwI6bShtKER4RAXp7jC2mfjn7YeCJ3T8j5BJr9FTHq4Gk/s1600/1-8-11+Bklyn+and+Allan+002+crop+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGkHAYwL2cZy1VPxFZL9tlENBwvkBGt3uQXw4iEF3JogUeTjjJSi4gY5cS3Wv8-IMv_oNtLGe4aeEBoB9KYJVmDoVrti980lEwI6bShtKER4RAXp7jC2mfjn7YeCJ3T8j5BJr9FTHq4Gk/s400/1-8-11+Bklyn+and+Allan+002+crop+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571525094669187890" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Driggs Ave. & North 7th St.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A friend mentioned that he paid three bucks for one and didn't think too much of it, but that's just his opinion.</span></span><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">There was a little more activity at the neglected site at Driggs and Grand. New plywood went up around the construction site and some workers were seen around there for a bit but little appears to be happening right now.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl0ZtZ0GdKxsxfHEt2U8nhcHD5TiqlZ7onraXVvpBkTBxbq1IF4n4DHVqe_KMhsX5o-mQWmrBC7YJZEbJshIYn0RpcNCEAY4Jmu8PbgjddZji3j7LIhaSy1Pkb1UA6MfZ8X_hgrXOUyY/s1600/1-25-11+003+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSl0ZtZ0GdKxsxfHEt2U8nhcHD5TiqlZ7onraXVvpBkTBxbq1IF4n4DHVqe_KMhsX5o-mQWmrBC7YJZEbJshIYn0RpcNCEAY4Jmu8PbgjddZji3j7LIhaSy1Pkb1UA6MfZ8X_hgrXOUyY/s400/1-25-11+003+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571474049371535106" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I talk a lot about my dislike of contemporary architecture and it’s true that I don’t like most of what I’ve seen going up around the borough over the past few years. So much of it looks so pedestrian and boring as if it were thrown up by using a kit: Green Glass Building #5, or something; all those little Plexiglas balconies hanging off them. </span><span style="font-size:85%;">Most of them just “don’t play well with others,” (</span><span style="font-size:85%;">like the one below)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> and should be off by themselves or with their friends.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Jjw2YIa_3jZaIV-Am55x-pqe9JcaGL2kd7ZcdYFcCPtZvRMVW3SUjFBjzhH3jww2D5MC3Bz5pVuBwRiO5tQx7RghxJdUOjELUjEYu80hfbuiil7adGYXUC1FvmaYqQkTCQujCAC0RO4/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+040+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Jjw2YIa_3jZaIV-Am55x-pqe9JcaGL2kd7ZcdYFcCPtZvRMVW3SUjFBjzhH3jww2D5MC3Bz5pVuBwRiO5tQx7RghxJdUOjELUjEYu80hfbuiil7adGYXUC1FvmaYqQkTCQujCAC0RO4/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+040+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571474933273298418" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">But occasionally I come across new buildings that look like a little more thought has gone into them. I still may not particularly like them where they are but that’s more a matter of location than actual design.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNBU_VS0wck6Vkgiwv9J0Fs9A_FVPpCpH9H3Nz-Q8zTVOXe63QBfmLEVEZUaPFSfzmO9Zx9Uajh-geN_-4DcfY5Wdx7-nr-KiTlGxhEc9NVg0XtjcpBIG-LSGRn825ksTAXdkOkttM5c/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+022+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPNBU_VS0wck6Vkgiwv9J0Fs9A_FVPpCpH9H3Nz-Q8zTVOXe63QBfmLEVEZUaPFSfzmO9Zx9Uajh-geN_-4DcfY5Wdx7-nr-KiTlGxhEc9NVg0XtjcpBIG-LSGRn825ksTAXdkOkttM5c/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+022+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571474418931787650" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">North 12th St. between Bedford Ave. & Berry St.</span><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2krKTBNY1cZRxUqfq2wKban5i0XxdQK2Htcr9Jh2Dj6x42DVAsoA8G_Y0Aqhwd_AMdKZrmhTLD031BZQd9lj2ckGSrWpivkuPkIBBtaydZfzJWQkRuXfHe5-EAsShlZX7kdZi5ZMCXp4/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+026+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2krKTBNY1cZRxUqfq2wKban5i0XxdQK2Htcr9Jh2Dj6x42DVAsoA8G_Y0Aqhwd_AMdKZrmhTLD031BZQd9lj2ckGSrWpivkuPkIBBtaydZfzJWQkRuXfHe5-EAsShlZX7kdZi5ZMCXp4/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+026+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571474706520845282" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">North 12th bet. Bedford & Berry</span><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">There are a couple I’ve noticed just lately and enjoyed looking at down on North 12<sup>th</sup> Street across from McCarren Park. They are in a block pretty much by themselves and so don’t suffer in contrast to some small 100-year-old brick building next door (or in this case the older buildings are nondescript enough not to matter).<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lWLJxyZWPFakI18VdHD0y-LCM3_wi9BqqY3ZPAmEZkIKHJNW9axNYlFn8M4DdeaMppXVS5y-3GBRKRV5lxSxfJ4ce70jka_qf-M3xchciYczSamQVKvSxcDuUu6_mcbMpd-j6ijGPhw/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+029+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3lWLJxyZWPFakI18VdHD0y-LCM3_wi9BqqY3ZPAmEZkIKHJNW9axNYlFn8M4DdeaMppXVS5y-3GBRKRV5lxSxfJ4ce70jka_qf-M3xchciYczSamQVKvSxcDuUu6_mcbMpd-j6ijGPhw/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+029+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571475580974792018" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">North 12th bet. Bedford & Berry</span><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">And they’re not the usual glass box, they’ve got some flair. The one below reminds me of Nathan Lane in <i style="">The Birdcage</i>, “One does want <i style="">a hint</i> of color.” It is a little strange because they're the kinds of buildings I don't usually like. Maybe it's the splashes of color in a black and white wintry world. Or maybe my brain is frozen from walking around in the cold and I'll come to my senses soon.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6WHJ0buulgdeF9kBmqf4qqZwFCi4YnfqitFLYRT2I2EpBAh2aDtv98c87v-CL-AKVcvejFhseSZamZ7F8zNNNq8r8iz1nK5u0tHl90OahpGtEi-tiRVSmIqKkDMAz4gWhPNOSVfh4ks/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+024+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv6WHJ0buulgdeF9kBmqf4qqZwFCi4YnfqitFLYRT2I2EpBAh2aDtv98c87v-CL-AKVcvejFhseSZamZ7F8zNNNq8r8iz1nK5u0tHl90OahpGtEi-tiRVSmIqKkDMAz4gWhPNOSVfh4ks/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+024+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571476478046253602" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >North 12 at Berry St.</span><br /></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Now, a block away is a <i style="">really</i> big empty lot just waiting for some mammoth building. I bow to the inevitable, I don’t think there’s going to be another Romanesque Revival (my latest favorite style) very soon so we’ll no doubt have just a bit more of what is happening all around there. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFM87BKggouFNupFIvM4Hw363YLIBFldaB5-b7Zwz-NWHYIbJ4uswgAkBkam8i-PF9JOTTbZlqPVsV_xcSF1c2gGpXL86bp0b0quTC3q1QEQVgYSRmw2waKTsdBTNy9-ryfyPMX8nVqg/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+019+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYFM87BKggouFNupFIvM4Hw363YLIBFldaB5-b7Zwz-NWHYIbJ4uswgAkBkam8i-PF9JOTTbZlqPVsV_xcSF1c2gGpXL86bp0b0quTC3q1QEQVgYSRmw2waKTsdBTNy9-ryfyPMX8nVqg/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+019+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571477049893671474" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">North 12th looking from Driggs toward Bedford</span><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">But within those parameters a developer could make something really oppressive or something really exciting. All told, the buildings going up around the park aren’t <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> bad so I’m hoping for the best.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOYX4rqKpj1m-weIr5V5ROQ4kGuhQ01MEwqyHjaknn0tSegND5Em5F4PeZfMglKd_T7FkX0DOlE56A0BrgXUSb_1-gmh7y92wOVlF6w9og4JsJKsefB584M4Lz-Q3tFRVkmeSown7teIM/s1600/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+034+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOYX4rqKpj1m-weIr5V5ROQ4kGuhQ01MEwqyHjaknn0tSegND5Em5F4PeZfMglKd_T7FkX0DOlE56A0BrgXUSb_1-gmh7y92wOVlF6w9og4JsJKsefB584M4Lz-Q3tFRVkmeSown7teIM/s400/2-6-11+Wllmsburg+034+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571477806061765602" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">North 12th from Bedford toward Driggs</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Still, it would be a shame to lose the perspective of that Orthodox Church down on Driggs.<br /></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I am just glad to see the back of this snow . . . at least for awhile, I doubt that we're out of the woods completely yet. I did try trudging around the area after the last one and it wasn’t pleasant, mainly because of the intersections.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYXEDY2XapHHASjfVB5ygIoeuntgFUQBM4kDgmWC8z6xW6ZWFoMy7_4Q_PgpFaGv8ftzQG6_zgDAXZ7khyqZlSw77kIW0TM_5NxLKHqSgaB50rn3iFUjkV_ciAVCzqEfpzTAh7Cs2LKo/s1600/slush+26+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXYXEDY2XapHHASjfVB5ygIoeuntgFUQBM4kDgmWC8z6xW6ZWFoMy7_4Q_PgpFaGv8ftzQG6_zgDAXZ7khyqZlSw77kIW0TM_5NxLKHqSgaB50rn3iFUjkV_ciAVCzqEfpzTAh7Cs2LKo/s400/slush+26+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571478816560099458" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Most people don’t do anything more than the minimum legal requirement as far as shoveling out, so if they live on a corner, often the sidewalk is cleared after a fashion until close to the corner and that’s it. Like it would kill them to take an extra couple of minutes to</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">clear a spot at the curb?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRiuiKq6MGifyx1fwd7DNsxcZt1n2qj48lEiCvQdDbjc4bLetl-zMcaqXQoGe3Wfd50GeLWRQ3ZX8ZLhKLjM10hzaGxHzFQp45udfiyAJBNfZIN7H5oX3HcjOIWPc7fFxc9-bmRamLNc8/s1600/slush+12+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRiuiKq6MGifyx1fwd7DNsxcZt1n2qj48lEiCvQdDbjc4bLetl-zMcaqXQoGe3Wfd50GeLWRQ3ZX8ZLhKLjM10hzaGxHzFQp45udfiyAJBNfZIN7H5oX3HcjOIWPc7fFxc9-bmRamLNc8/s400/slush+12+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571478976947767650" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">A sidewalk along Vanderbilt Ave. shows what happens when no one wants to do any more than what’s absolutely required. There are two buildings in a particular block with a very narrow strip of grass between them, apparently belonging to neither. The sidewalks in front of each were cleared off but no one wanted to touch the strip in between, maybe about eight feet wide.<br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmZ03OtU5M-OBkfLeqGvuXpj-NA0D0twLA8UqLsIKTluzQyOtDvODBMLcsSoGZRrWjcIGwJwlML_KbaCJ1dEF8WamukdNT_g_4unyVZ_EewmH0UdcnrJHktjxAKKHBu3V0Yo4MLaTR6SA/s1600/up+Vand+36+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmZ03OtU5M-OBkfLeqGvuXpj-NA0D0twLA8UqLsIKTluzQyOtDvODBMLcsSoGZRrWjcIGwJwlML_KbaCJ1dEF8WamukdNT_g_4unyVZ_EewmH0UdcnrJHktjxAKKHBu3V0Yo4MLaTR6SA/s400/up+Vand+36+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571479267248649410" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">So you walked along a clear sidewalk and then had to slip and slide over top of an icy unshoveled section before you got back to a cleared sidewalk.</span><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">As one of my office mates would say, “Jeez!”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKtYNyVGVCWltXBsG0whuq4SRPF9IhKJmACys8FJ3h99dX2h0e5jN5x63Sfda8pO2PFr8kfuTHM-Vizg3EBYeVbuuFS1T-0MM8iaNHAv6YKWCPLIHtl52u0yjNTBqXX296-PAjXf1M5M8/s1600/slush+28+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKtYNyVGVCWltXBsG0whuq4SRPF9IhKJmACys8FJ3h99dX2h0e5jN5x63Sfda8pO2PFr8kfuTHM-Vizg3EBYeVbuuFS1T-0MM8iaNHAv6YKWCPLIHtl52u0yjNTBqXX296-PAjXf1M5M8/s400/slush+28+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571479481734764674" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">But a lot of times it was just slushy muck on the street that had to wait for warmer weather.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">The last Saturday that I was out walking, I had to go pretty far afield just to get rid of the cabin fever. So I took a long circuit from Williamsburg over through Fort Green to the library at Grand Army Plaza and then down Flatbush to Dean Street and so through Boerum Hill into Brooklyn Heights and around through Dumbo to get back to Williamsburg.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vMqfbFt4bmsWLJVXNqYChjB2fdfbEKWJ6d7t5pKR2vDGM4uYc6_rqChCoKcTxJ7ExtDbm25mge9PK635OEmi7caTGSW6ZX5WUyizQ7UWz44bfuhozHfj4ux3lJWIDY7ufoh9ha5LP_k/s1600/Dean+47+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vMqfbFt4bmsWLJVXNqYChjB2fdfbEKWJ6d7t5pKR2vDGM4uYc6_rqChCoKcTxJ7ExtDbm25mge9PK635OEmi7caTGSW6ZX5WUyizQ7UWz44bfuhozHfj4ux3lJWIDY7ufoh9ha5LP_k/s400/Dean+47+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571487859308788290" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Dean St.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Boerum Hill is nice. It's hard to believe at times that you're just a few blocks away from Flatbush Avenue. That's the nice thing about Brooklyn, the way the neighborhoods change so abruptly at times.</span><br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSXjJBUbEgZWWRAxZ70q2A364MJRrDcrH5qkpa1ltO9YVYcVI2ndvq2r_KIcQLaFHcFXzMUe46bpf6ulcFWmQG1eC__KWzdm_FPfm-Egj4FC4U7Tj7kltlJ5HoU1fz5B6U1BNrkPuFtA/s1600/Dean+49+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSXjJBUbEgZWWRAxZ70q2A364MJRrDcrH5qkpa1ltO9YVYcVI2ndvq2r_KIcQLaFHcFXzMUe46bpf6ulcFWmQG1eC__KWzdm_FPfm-Egj4FC4U7Tj7kltlJ5HoU1fz5B6U1BNrkPuFtA/s400/Dean+49+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571488189361283410" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Dean St.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcFAQNeMhBK5GB9eeyN3htr1-gmaXe0UcHbT0_a4xcqae7m-ZQLPUCgUYWS0s38eAUSi7lyICe8dOmffrwwW35vdVACTnXypRtm7R-D3QJmYMCSo9Mxq9VxV0A5WEFj3bWnSMvvDTRNY/s1600/Dean+52+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfcFAQNeMhBK5GB9eeyN3htr1-gmaXe0UcHbT0_a4xcqae7m-ZQLPUCgUYWS0s38eAUSi7lyICe8dOmffrwwW35vdVACTnXypRtm7R-D3QJmYMCSo9Mxq9VxV0A5WEFj3bWnSMvvDTRNY/s400/Dean+52+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571488481679873250" border="0" /></a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dean St.</span><br /></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I happened to be looking for a specific block in Brooklyn, down on Pierrepont Street near the esplanade. In one of my old books, discovered by way of Google Books, featuring old buildings in New York City, there was a photo of the block in an article from 1896 about a firm of New York architects named Cady, Berg, & See.<br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_Q-lby3SJDdWdgEAH77b6sRrP-QVVPCtfYd-OL6WKY6oRy-PXCOMkAXIwB6d5bNRM4BaymzI3yTb-9jCSiG2W5ac6OZs7Yei7f5EvZNxdWSDFWcX2tvq4aM6Q9SpD5uW1dfvqA_ODkU/s1600/Pierpont+ST+res+adj+copy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP_Q-lby3SJDdWdgEAH77b6sRrP-QVVPCtfYd-OL6WKY6oRy-PXCOMkAXIwB6d5bNRM4BaymzI3yTb-9jCSiG2W5ac6OZs7Yei7f5EvZNxdWSDFWcX2tvq4aM6Q9SpD5uW1dfvqA_ODkU/s400/Pierpont+ST+res+adj+copy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571488787328404722" border="0" /></a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">They designed the Museum of Natural History among other things, as well as some churches and other buildings in Brooklyn. The author of the article had something to say about almost every work pictured <i style="">except </i>Pierrepont St. Anyway, I was curious as to whether it was still there. It was/is.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3s3kKMjVuj_dz3XaBX_6ek65jyajerLgzDZuokJowW-fpX2Xm5RhZhUgcRF0dT3eAYSuv4qai9Ze7TILHBW3slWTLWG6E_RY0u3sEicLiLhEKpxVy2Tf66i3vEoO0_UtKxLZRRCNYpvA/s1600/Pierpont+57+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3s3kKMjVuj_dz3XaBX_6ek65jyajerLgzDZuokJowW-fpX2Xm5RhZhUgcRF0dT3eAYSuv4qai9Ze7TILHBW3slWTLWG6E_RY0u3sEicLiLhEKpxVy2Tf66i3vEoO0_UtKxLZRRCNYpvA/s400/Pierpont+57+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571489317973927298" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">Then on through Dumbo just for the hell of it (and because it was the easiest way to walk home). I think Dumbo looks its most authentic in nasty weather under gray skies.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpnZa9W3_SayVfVEIU8t52V36Smmtsj8CG6ghZ4YRkWJryCbNpUWzetlqwStMnm_19GYdgZCvHNCtc3x-jPf2SCyDsUJSeOu1R62-bxCFtEY0qDm_7qYAwhBfUPmUmUNj3NEFrBFmj5w/s1600/dumbo+66+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqpnZa9W3_SayVfVEIU8t52V36Smmtsj8CG6ghZ4YRkWJryCbNpUWzetlqwStMnm_19GYdgZCvHNCtc3x-jPf2SCyDsUJSeOu1R62-bxCFtEY0qDm_7qYAwhBfUPmUmUNj3NEFrBFmj5w/s400/dumbo+66+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571489904664552482" border="0" /></a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"> It looks more like what it was supposed to be, a cheap, gritty haven for artists escaping from trendier parts of the city. In the nice weather in the summer it resembles downtown Greenwich on a Saturday morning. Still, I had expected this building below to be co-ops or condos by this time and it’s still the run down abandoned thing it was last summer when I took the second photo.</span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDd46fcPbjrJQy-zZdi2DAQL3iTn6mZirzU-aaCUAEhQ1raN_cXGHH0CIQZF-PUGoKRjs7QgU8ejvTGHBt67eICI6nYPJpjG1fvqKj7sc9KZhNHzJ3xzGYxFLakj945LV_1xYdhYLy3-Q/s1600/dumbo+63+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDd46fcPbjrJQy-zZdi2DAQL3iTn6mZirzU-aaCUAEhQ1raN_cXGHH0CIQZF-PUGoKRjs7QgU8ejvTGHBt67eICI6nYPJpjG1fvqKj7sc9KZhNHzJ3xzGYxFLakj945LV_1xYdhYLy3-Q/s400/dumbo+63+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571491182615023762" border="0" /></a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bSoPKI7xda2g5zQNL9sm9iKhTGlh1LB4WumfLET6psTHhw9dNtQQDx6nU-u4IvPrdh0wUi20S4uCOBuHQtMIQoOxiLjloHs8z9qD8nuTmQXPYbAKKACW6VlWRHtmfzZ71M8dmN6d-rk/s1600/Dumbo+June+10+083+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_bSoPKI7xda2g5zQNL9sm9iKhTGlh1LB4WumfLET6psTHhw9dNtQQDx6nU-u4IvPrdh0wUi20S4uCOBuHQtMIQoOxiLjloHs8z9qD8nuTmQXPYbAKKACW6VlWRHtmfzZ71M8dmN6d-rk/s400/Dumbo+June+10+083+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571491499965062754" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">It still is pretty gritty where Dumbo melts into Vinegar Hill . . . no sidewalks, hardly any snow cleared, and fortunately few cars anyway.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOTmF82xH1s9S6YNsWwjUBRpkALgShWIBdkrmlvslZVrkns_8Q34yXRZPEmTD5ot1OA2HishlkpiQ7uA7qwTpcf_6P0-qW3zTUPNiJusAkTL1T0t1oT4t6cKh_PEfDIZnsiokS6NBFOY/s1600/dumbo+69+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOTmF82xH1s9S6YNsWwjUBRpkALgShWIBdkrmlvslZVrkns_8Q34yXRZPEmTD5ot1OA2HishlkpiQ7uA7qwTpcf_6P0-qW3zTUPNiJusAkTL1T0t1oT4t6cKh_PEfDIZnsiokS6NBFOY/s400/dumbo+69+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571491920508880002" border="0" /></a></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrJoHzO9MLkdgN2T_Nanm2tKKzzsyQ5Y6WgZ-Pp1VOqbL3xDLCmlKRHxB9ftZxQVCKFB6N8iuvD88veiaqubU_NWEpxbYTsXRAY2K0xoFfidSGisI_QlKkrhtw9GM_0qBhOjjx9akY1k/s1600/dumbo+74+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinrJoHzO9MLkdgN2T_Nanm2tKKzzsyQ5Y6WgZ-Pp1VOqbL3xDLCmlKRHxB9ftZxQVCKFB6N8iuvD88veiaqubU_NWEpxbYTsXRAY2K0xoFfidSGisI_QlKkrhtw9GM_0qBhOjjx9akY1k/s400/dumbo+74+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571492143596960770" border="0" /></a></span></p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">That detective mystery by Irene Marcuse that I recommended a few postings ago? This is the building she featured in her story: the Peerless Paint factory.<br /></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikunzfA0TT20or_0BMoxixX7w8xAALjNeCFHnd28MSwPbQgRZ2N-mXmOTetyCQ-26FPW4BxD0-q1Pr3Jh-uTZMEro2jA6Ze5uPuC25QwfsYoICZv2KnvsqjL0xNI6qRL4uYGYxv1a6o_M/s1600/dumbo+72+res+adj+crop.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 328px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikunzfA0TT20or_0BMoxixX7w8xAALjNeCFHnd28MSwPbQgRZ2N-mXmOTetyCQ-26FPW4BxD0-q1Pr3Jh-uTZMEro2jA6Ze5uPuC25QwfsYoICZv2KnvsqjL0xNI6qRL4uYGYxv1a6o_M/s400/dumbo+72+res+adj+crop.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571492455615924194" border="0" /></a></span></p><p face="trebuchet ms" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:85%;">I did get a chance to read the others she wrote and they are all good. I’m sorry she hasn’t written any more since around 2003.</span></p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" class="MsoNormal"> </p>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-141516311419547562011-01-06T20:11:00.025-05:002011-01-07T19:13:59.277-05:00Under the Manhattan Bridge -- A Really Good Mystery Novel<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >Under the Manhattan Bridge</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> by Irene Marcuse</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkf7kKuH57sUtu82ytgSn0cPz5GQk-7ogw2mZ3aEEVx8sFCMLFUXYOZa8dxHOm5MwQNRdgyoRIvpSG-_LLLrmCrka3dGVpQa1U55GqXOecCXVFOKGUvGyFFTuWam7FCsGr7c850fTXoE/s1600/5-15-10+Sat+walk+055+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkf7kKuH57sUtu82ytgSn0cPz5GQk-7ogw2mZ3aEEVx8sFCMLFUXYOZa8dxHOm5MwQNRdgyoRIvpSG-_LLLrmCrka3dGVpQa1U55GqXOecCXVFOKGUvGyFFTuWam7FCsGr7c850fTXoE/s400/5-15-10+Sat+walk+055+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559253579232294994" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"> Literally "down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass." Looking from Anchorage Place to Adams St.<br /><br /></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNZrSMUozaG_t5mbBejGFdaRslsPtiJbbhfK-KgVFJrxWnv4YnfVqTUiGbgRtTv_L65QDqsw0prLdAlVaHI8HQ0vepK4CS5WG4IB5CKNy3UjlgI6cB58-pNey5_BWek2_5Trto69uh9w/s1600/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+089+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPNZrSMUozaG_t5mbBejGFdaRslsPtiJbbhfK-KgVFJrxWnv4YnfVqTUiGbgRtTv_L65QDqsw0prLdAlVaHI8HQ0vepK4CS5WG4IB5CKNy3UjlgI6cB58-pNey5_BWek2_5Trto69uh9w/s400/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+089+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559251294369284050" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Looking up Anchorage Place from Plymouth St.</span><br /><br /><br />Now, what is a cryophobic, summer-lovin' Brooklyn boy supposed to do in a mean, cold winter with one blizzard behind him and another snowfall ahead of him?<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuhKLTdfYSpO0oG-_6Fwvajdz65COOMuURYW0WGW6Fd_HTpgxzrpchVKgM9q7uaQgyj7YikLLWG3z_5DZxaw3sYGFlcVLorD5EutYUP_rAmqN0GHzB4hcRssnbfPwNIjNTRKukvHWpaI/s1600/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+100+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkuhKLTdfYSpO0oG-_6Fwvajdz65COOMuURYW0WGW6Fd_HTpgxzrpchVKgM9q7uaQgyj7YikLLWG3z_5DZxaw3sYGFlcVLorD5EutYUP_rAmqN0GHzB4hcRssnbfPwNIjNTRKukvHWpaI/s400/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+100+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559261395567082546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Penn St. between Bedford and Lee Aves.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">, South Williamsburg</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />Settle in to read some great mysteries.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17h0zj3du5yc1juW-KPvGN9VIgFYz4Im2KuJx56LUUl1l0ymd7Iy8b5qoCf81PXJvWslG9fExEk9vcJ_ZmZd-33V-0HavuT21cVyoVLGHPFCSAXOVV-33ao-3BZFJ4EWuldZLunenbp0/s1600/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+092+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17h0zj3du5yc1juW-KPvGN9VIgFYz4Im2KuJx56LUUl1l0ymd7Iy8b5qoCf81PXJvWslG9fExEk9vcJ_ZmZd-33V-0HavuT21cVyoVLGHPFCSAXOVV-33ao-3BZFJ4EWuldZLunenbp0/s400/6-19-10+Sat+walk+Bklyn+Hts-Dumbo-NavYard+092+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559254697637056578" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Looking north up Plymouth St. from Jay St. Plymouth St. figures in the book.</span><br /><br />I often find the most enjoyable mysteries by happenstance, just browsing through the shelves at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza, and that's how I found<span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Under the Manhattan Bridge</span>.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMEftle-uTeF_ZlXDiAuKyGXClK_Ll5xuwJ7YOTsMfj4ovxBbYFKZ8JT2vAC_KDszDl1S67hJG0vXRenP49q7gDgWqJWv_EZzc2Ai0mDDfuLxYTG56QJqWW1AZuf68lZB4Jyk1qldFPwU/s1600/5-15-10+Sat+walk+026+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMEftle-uTeF_ZlXDiAuKyGXClK_Ll5xuwJ7YOTsMfj4ovxBbYFKZ8JT2vAC_KDszDl1S67hJG0vXRenP49q7gDgWqJWv_EZzc2Ai0mDDfuLxYTG56QJqWW1AZuf68lZB4Jyk1qldFPwU/s400/5-15-10+Sat+walk+026+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559255981108725554" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Plymouth and Hudson Streets, the Con Ed plant, looking down toward the East River</span><br /><br />It's the first book by Irene Marcuse that I've read (I have a couple of more waiting in the wings), but having read a bit </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >about</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > her books I can say that they are set in various neighborhoods of New York City. The action of </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 0, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >Under the Manhattan Bridge</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" > takes place mainly among the artists of DUMBO and the Hasidim of Williamsburg, with a few forays into the East Village.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhoySv8bAmg1jmhL1YpAqioW-37ls6EKxqe7Slxf6Im1nqC4twXbFdmX859uxFHd1VBJsQojVt5raHkeAOpvpRoV1fM1zmmM7w6mRCjtJytaZq9jcpX59UkczOo8T6q8aiT5sACggHEo/s1600/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+132+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifhoySv8bAmg1jmhL1YpAqioW-37ls6EKxqe7Slxf6Im1nqC4twXbFdmX859uxFHd1VBJsQojVt5raHkeAOpvpRoV1fM1zmmM7w6mRCjtJytaZq9jcpX59UkczOo8T6q8aiT5sACggHEo/s400/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+132+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559256693959226066" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Along Lee Avenue in Williamsburg</span><br /><br />I definitely recommend the book to anyone who enjoys mysteries and lives in Brooklyn. I would also recommend it to people who might not live in Brooklyn or even in New York City but who enjoy books set there.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WR3osAQzE6vPeH3iubhFk5gKLOf1fKMXkggKTZE7xnyJAfqWURRMGbtwhQfTtl94ajP7_JAerTb9nrt58QFHor46NlT5rL_Mt9nOqaMyKHPj8XkGbeu_eSKyteACPO8sO10Obz2uoLc/s1600/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+004+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4WR3osAQzE6vPeH3iubhFk5gKLOf1fKMXkggKTZE7xnyJAfqWURRMGbtwhQfTtl94ajP7_JAerTb9nrt58QFHor46NlT5rL_Mt9nOqaMyKHPj8XkGbeu_eSKyteACPO8sO10Obz2uoLc/s400/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+004+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559257049414403986" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Shabbos along Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg</span><br /><br />I like to spread the joy. And it's not just the Brooklyn setting that entertains; it's is an engrossing, satisfying novel by any standard.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPS3DicIjcsDUNsauLiZIv0XfjlTlGjQdQ9Vk6zED35K_f1hbRRu5BpH6ppokHKsku1rnSGs81mxAplUEhdNnu6qmUU_QcEGaG18xGfCtdSdSbTowX5spQIyXz8GPieSwPdAO6TzDt6mo/s1600/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+128+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPS3DicIjcsDUNsauLiZIv0XfjlTlGjQdQ9Vk6zED35K_f1hbRRu5BpH6ppokHKsku1rnSGs81mxAplUEhdNnu6qmUU_QcEGaG18xGfCtdSdSbTowX5spQIyXz8GPieSwPdAO6TzDt6mo/s400/6-20-10+Sun+Wlmsberg+walk+128+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559258195688571474" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Lee Ave. in Williamsburg</span><br /><br />Also, this post gives me a chance to throw in some of my photos of DUMBO that I never got a chance to post. For anyone who might want to read the book and lives in the city, wander over here to Brooklyn and soak up the atmosphere. If you don't live in New York City, maybe some of the photos will give you an idea of the neighborhoods in the book.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8SFV0QvtuunBxjXojjURcIOQZLKLbqKC1KH0PNAfR9LQN6LGCQWozlfh5QCD_VUV7cnHXoYow8VcID4ERI3SdPEXEPrQup5gnDsTG3RqZdLZLU5sbENkdwaieloWJ68wLVJDI3tjxYx0/s1600/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+074+res+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8SFV0QvtuunBxjXojjURcIOQZLKLbqKC1KH0PNAfR9LQN6LGCQWozlfh5QCD_VUV7cnHXoYow8VcID4ERI3SdPEXEPrQup5gnDsTG3RqZdLZLU5sbENkdwaieloWJ68wLVJDI3tjxYx0/s400/4-24-10+Bklyn+Walk+074+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5559259050206310050" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">Plymouth St. looking toward the Manhattan Bridge<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><br />(The photos are from the spring and summer, 2010.)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);"><br /></span><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-34086372385610349662010-12-27T15:18:00.024-05:002010-12-27T17:18:46.520-05:00Scenes from a blizzard<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuDKIja1PH4CwE4h4KecNdiDqlpDczK-6nhbAmFr9O4HrvjnpZ2E53cGminrFIT3QUIS5ed5yd_LrBebRpHJIcDUzmo2-qKQxzdsLiYNV55eEiSAx3OHEMcwJCklkAZA5-6No89-Z5ms/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+006+adj+res.jpg"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hK_tXuQhVP97fjUjNMcVFb7UeUnTZ0A5D82a2GaAzCTjqFodcHnPcFcZ0uR4cQeaILry04dHwgGuXXHVjF-qO1tAcHeXzmJ35poYEgp1DwWqmIPAsSPr8NUuD0utxgjbdBZWQRlier4/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+004+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hK_tXuQhVP97fjUjNMcVFb7UeUnTZ0A5D82a2GaAzCTjqFodcHnPcFcZ0uR4cQeaILry04dHwgGuXXHVjF-qO1tAcHeXzmJ35poYEgp1DwWqmIPAsSPr8NUuD0utxgjbdBZWQRlier4/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+004+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555475326810958594" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Ave. and Grand St.<br /><br /></span><br />Pretty snowy out there today. A lot of streets in our part of Williamsburg (the Northside) had not been touched by midday.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuDKIja1PH4CwE4h4KecNdiDqlpDczK-6nhbAmFr9O4HrvjnpZ2E53cGminrFIT3QUIS5ed5yd_LrBebRpHJIcDUzmo2-qKQxzdsLiYNV55eEiSAx3OHEMcwJCklkAZA5-6No89-Z5ms/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+006+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSuDKIja1PH4CwE4h4KecNdiDqlpDczK-6nhbAmFr9O4HrvjnpZ2E53cGminrFIT3QUIS5ed5yd_LrBebRpHJIcDUzmo2-qKQxzdsLiYNV55eEiSAx3OHEMcwJCklkAZA5-6No89-Z5ms/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+006+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555475585593950946" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Ave. Grand St. to Metropolitan Ave.<br /><br /></span><br />Not just the side streets but Driggs Avenue, a major thoroughfare and the route of the B62 bus from Queens Plaza to downtown Brooklyn, had not seen a plow at all.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEU1xqOqaL2KCq2O1kiXscmSTEMFH-7LbtRjH5xkJS-PPoA52mYfIFFUnv-4dyxxR7VqV4xxmRI4PtFG3NjiX4u8ZRjyHhvpoflfV5GQJaNs7ScCcP07w3nLlfBfg_PpgwTJoVwg3ORo/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+030+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmEU1xqOqaL2KCq2O1kiXscmSTEMFH-7LbtRjH5xkJS-PPoA52mYfIFFUnv-4dyxxR7VqV4xxmRI4PtFG3NjiX4u8ZRjyHhvpoflfV5GQJaNs7ScCcP07w3nLlfBfg_PpgwTJoVwg3ORo/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+030+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555476279609330546" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Driggs Ave. near North 5th St.<br /><br /></span><br />But I saw that a bus had broken down during the storm and had been abandoned on Driggs Ave. near North 9th St., so a plow couldn't have gotten through anyway until the bus was towed away.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0QqC3CF_AXPX6u99sN_lOLG4SLpfcO7NbdxeZFjgh-_lXM64QJkl7VUtNcl1bspxBRRVadyGvWB6ATn5dyU_wk5m9OKr-O5zI_LvoQPVAz7_VcCosmSEgwC_ppL-IY98rL0rIpYR4LY/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+043+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv0QqC3CF_AXPX6u99sN_lOLG4SLpfcO7NbdxeZFjgh-_lXM64QJkl7VUtNcl1bspxBRRVadyGvWB6ATn5dyU_wk5m9OKr-O5zI_LvoQPVAz7_VcCosmSEgwC_ppL-IY98rL0rIpYR4LY/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+043+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555476749822153026" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Driggs Ave. near North 8th St.</span><br /><br /><br />Actually it was sort of fun if you were walking and were dressed for it. There were lots of places where the sidewalks hadn't been cleared; mostly on the side streets and over on Driggs.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcGH-2TjalZa8Ywvi1ez49yYCKej_stuo709ZMH_YioI3Y5IzcUPqcUBTy6lRaW6qJXyPujsTIAttsRHOCgfkD3yBykl4-HApe9LxrRU1Yj7oJHQOpbg822I0_Gjx5EcqCjuLKipIEhc/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+011+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHcGH-2TjalZa8Ywvi1ez49yYCKej_stuo709ZMH_YioI3Y5IzcUPqcUBTy6lRaW6qJXyPujsTIAttsRHOCgfkD3yBykl4-HApe9LxrRU1Yj7oJHQOpbg822I0_Gjx5EcqCjuLKipIEhc/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+011+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555477232812515634" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Av. at North 3rd St.</span><br /><br /><br />The walks on Bedford were pretty good. But even where most of the sidewalk was clear, the corners were generally impassable so many people were sticking to the middle of the street.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z_43ZMT3tpea4tsCiFbhnsz7QymSSRF6hxRur-qy0Xr-8TJUaVHbxRicBGM27IeuIeilOgpBxywkS8FzBFnnA7tl273Gj-bkeD3-s86Tz9o1IlGPUKj2Z74-btTrp6D3yFpowRgNhBA/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+021+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Z_43ZMT3tpea4tsCiFbhnsz7QymSSRF6hxRur-qy0Xr-8TJUaVHbxRicBGM27IeuIeilOgpBxywkS8FzBFnnA7tl273Gj-bkeD3-s86Tz9o1IlGPUKj2Z74-btTrp6D3yFpowRgNhBA/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+021+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555478016234357042" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> North 4th St. at </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Ave.</span><br /><br /><br />Whenever I saw cars coming down Bedford or across Grand Street or Metropolitan Ave., I thought of that World War II slogan from England: Is Your Trip Necessary?<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tLk_G4DYuse0sfJVN1-xIE5T5bYxcwBIVqFXpx1kLjwLFBBIuwsnnmi2qvsxCFaHkFV_joRGnAYFpvsBFE_jQzNiuEL7D_BEhx6Sh0PV3WxNsD43OncF-ee9yVc79bCKo0NTX8w_o5Q/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+024+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-tLk_G4DYuse0sfJVN1-xIE5T5bYxcwBIVqFXpx1kLjwLFBBIuwsnnmi2qvsxCFaHkFV_joRGnAYFpvsBFE_jQzNiuEL7D_BEhx6Sh0PV3WxNsD43OncF-ee9yVc79bCKo0NTX8w_o5Q/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+024+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555478433819342066" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> North 5th St. at Bedford Ave.</span><br /><br /><br />Maybe some people had a good reason to be out on the road but I think there were people out driving for the sake of driving or at least not for a really urgent reason.<br /><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWldfN2uCDEBf0ubqjsDRQNZSfFG5qpeEM5nH8IfE8mH3c_S2cC1fqtttutlOduRYkDoii6muBsU4WMTzkvv8jpsnhnotOfdWKC0OrsyKgR1M2xtbQIRE5D759qe5t2ep3XrXDjzWrjWU/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+027+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWldfN2uCDEBf0ubqjsDRQNZSfFG5qpeEM5nH8IfE8mH3c_S2cC1fqtttutlOduRYkDoii6muBsU4WMTzkvv8jpsnhnotOfdWKC0OrsyKgR1M2xtbQIRE5D759qe5t2ep3XrXDjzWrjWU/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+027+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555488992464016578" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Bedford Ave. bet. North 5th & 6th Sts.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />It didn't make a lot of sense because you'd never know whether a road you needed to take would be open or not.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFscZ_leocnnC2YAN2EPw_OfA_RzxQ-E-VtZjfZY5FTDfxYLtNXZtaG-1BzzGAHoQUxgq1lmxwnaizjgVu4CIywqb7RBksNGBzf69Byx2_Eg-jlDBKMIaO5tW6Q-fTToHcRzhlYPdWZW4/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+007+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFscZ_leocnnC2YAN2EPw_OfA_RzxQ-E-VtZjfZY5FTDfxYLtNXZtaG-1BzzGAHoQUxgq1lmxwnaizjgVu4CIywqb7RBksNGBzf69Byx2_Eg-jlDBKMIaO5tW6Q-fTToHcRzhlYPdWZW4/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+007+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555478906219095938" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Ave. near North 1st St.</span><br /><br />The owner of our Local bakery, La Villita, played it safe and walked over from his home with his son, and I think they live over in Ridgewood or close to it, so that was a pretty good trek.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwCbyXz1RnfojlJf22PoXXOO77fG-YRIdv3SFCbBbecRalF2m42NxSCE3XZbm4JyrETx8QFiyAeDXxcjFVJV7eILRZQn5rN8VfD8LKvuXV_hei_jN570je9_W-gIH9RyU3ZG6lGiMJXM/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+068+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuwCbyXz1RnfojlJf22PoXXOO77fG-YRIdv3SFCbBbecRalF2m42NxSCE3XZbm4JyrETx8QFiyAeDXxcjFVJV7eILRZQn5rN8VfD8LKvuXV_hei_jN570je9_W-gIH9RyU3ZG6lGiMJXM/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+068+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555479179862672130" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bedford Ave. and Grand St.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jsoqPTg7HXnBuPsjvyaX4RciFO3O1MqAe-L39A8Q35dOID4g6qv6Q50ev4Y5Mltuf2zbc42j9OVs4XslNQFoER7qMhdwHR3XahLaX2855BtjpVVZBYy_DiUsT0yJwbcTEd4FahaOpEQ/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+034+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0jsoqPTg7HXnBuPsjvyaX4RciFO3O1MqAe-L39A8Q35dOID4g6qv6Q50ev4Y5Mltuf2zbc42j9OVs4XslNQFoER7qMhdwHR3XahLaX2855BtjpVVZBYy_DiUsT0yJwbcTEd4FahaOpEQ/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+034+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555480775776309154" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Driggs Ave. near North 5th St.<br /><br /></span><br />And even a blizzard couldn't keep some kids away from a playground.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwByM_BaZIRNPFsP_YS_qpQWMk0in55LfvqApJNF2U8xyKbvy9JRO99kbMJ1cx6UkB1xpOXNm7KIdeQV6w6Gw1NwmbydcM_ZROzYv7Er2I3iLX7DIhk6JDBSDoz84tQ3oPsf-wrg8nC-w/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+063+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwByM_BaZIRNPFsP_YS_qpQWMk0in55LfvqApJNF2U8xyKbvy9JRO99kbMJ1cx6UkB1xpOXNm7KIdeQV6w6Gw1NwmbydcM_ZROzYv7Er2I3iLX7DIhk6JDBSDoz84tQ3oPsf-wrg8nC-w/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+063+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555481168812767778" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grand St. near Berry St.<br /><br /></span><br />And I'm glad I'm not the one who has to dig out cars like this one.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQZPEvaViSvZe9FZZn68W7HIw1_ZEtLO2I_0Yxytorjh85CRuaMaqMyX5_mM3EdlrulXzII8a-1MfLMgJhnexISotr-qHSYM2sq6Y8Lh0gF-SmJWiwSLNM_TjyiF20HW3El7CXfLX40Q/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+064+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimQZPEvaViSvZe9FZZn68W7HIw1_ZEtLO2I_0Yxytorjh85CRuaMaqMyX5_mM3EdlrulXzII8a-1MfLMgJhnexISotr-qHSYM2sq6Y8Lh0gF-SmJWiwSLNM_TjyiF20HW3El7CXfLX40Q/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+064+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555481777242893266" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Grand St. near Wythe Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81XUv9kyoLtWFjW4FJtm16KkJ_Lvc1pFfPjbnGXvmrZ-L6yOcFtv0BRHRZHTL3V09rv5qZf5s_3CSf3awfxFU0qEYVYg8Ux93B0BWGPaArcEwAbPycbICEyuwyBCsJquQuY2ZWPr2eLs/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+041+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh81XUv9kyoLtWFjW4FJtm16KkJ_Lvc1pFfPjbnGXvmrZ-L6yOcFtv0BRHRZHTL3V09rv5qZf5s_3CSf3awfxFU0qEYVYg8Ux93B0BWGPaArcEwAbPycbICEyuwyBCsJquQuY2ZWPr2eLs/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+041+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555482526730451666" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Driggs Ave. bet. North 7th & 8th Sts.</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LMuDYe0K1686XLnF5iGif4LWmtDKy5HDH7_UdlvXfzDfDvecNlm5lfHvqOEbh_566Cbfw33SsFU6HiagOX41fiFBDnH962-sup6GSxdn-uFCLTrhH4f1J06pW68vIq14nl36oRwsCEI/s1600/12-27-10+Blizzard+051+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8LMuDYe0K1686XLnF5iGif4LWmtDKy5HDH7_UdlvXfzDfDvecNlm5lfHvqOEbh_566Cbfw33SsFU6HiagOX41fiFBDnH962-sup6GSxdn-uFCLTrhH4f1J06pW68vIq14nl36oRwsCEI/s400/12-27-10+Blizzard+051+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555483058032844178" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Driggs Ave. at Metropolitan Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw9i607J0yC_Lf6nmmSPvxUJ6yBtQyG5r1R_k_NxtKipTEJM9tmTspCpFadfVvcJYphz8j82Jt1QZFUlYJ0wQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-30073943693947976912010-12-20T19:52:00.011-05:002010-12-20T20:13:49.484-05:00Yup . . . Closed<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0gM0eUIzOG9jAwpoJ1m3PNDpdRWPdfEV1lGWx8BZ6Xf-2hN_GesOrJukGSZidbQXUMNJ-bTrlFfywVnLrEL20di-XuZJWcKklrZHjybrMdDrB9a6MWusJaGPjWHKAefcwxzpgT2YIV0/s1600/12-20+Bank+1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix0gM0eUIzOG9jAwpoJ1m3PNDpdRWPdfEV1lGWx8BZ6Xf-2hN_GesOrJukGSZidbQXUMNJ-bTrlFfywVnLrEL20di-XuZJWcKklrZHjybrMdDrB9a6MWusJaGPjWHKAefcwxzpgT2YIV0/s400/12-20+Bank+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552932329796286082" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />Yes, I was right. HSBC did close the branch at Broadway and Driggs Avenue. The flashy new branch in the trendy Northside has replaced it.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-c635GzPmIGtHoSUTTU5rJL-Lgmb29Xp9TaNxYBWZaWupWBXqziGf5RoOQtOoJDK78H5qfNQBn4WE5dWWTqdJFvF4vnv93nDKwFS-dN5BlR7TdQwGu_G5nWSI8VGruKLRzxwFL-L9xQ/s1600/12-20+Bank+2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8-c635GzPmIGtHoSUTTU5rJL-Lgmb29Xp9TaNxYBWZaWupWBXqziGf5RoOQtOoJDK78H5qfNQBn4WE5dWWTqdJFvF4vnv93nDKwFS-dN5BlR7TdQwGu_G5nWSI8VGruKLRzxwFL-L9xQ/s400/12-20+Bank+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552932914942865298" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />I also satisfied myself that the bank has been landmarked, both interior and exterior, which does make sense.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYgvzB7UqPGeEbs0mkL6Uq9S2bHND2iGm_ajlvDw5iNFraflaLegil2eDWT9EX8fo2Nh2dWELnhELdweqC52ozVRmaojU278Dx6yUmiqX2l5QVknDcg4YAlf5pHOs5hX7RTYUwsOMxMw/s1600/12-20+Bank+5+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYgvzB7UqPGeEbs0mkL6Uq9S2bHND2iGm_ajlvDw5iNFraflaLegil2eDWT9EX8fo2Nh2dWELnhELdweqC52ozVRmaojU278Dx6yUmiqX2l5QVknDcg4YAlf5pHOs5hX7RTYUwsOMxMw/s400/12-20+Bank+5+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552934754220591650" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br />I glanced at some of the signage guidelines that the Landmarks Preservation Commission provides and HSBC could get away with those garish signs as long as they did not permanently mar the building itself.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKS-IpkVzP9VFeqtkEwQ9SXQ4ZoX0Y15Mh_lQRPHAX1Kzk7-lWyi_FzFT4YynG4F1GSd2afJlsjY5-XJQDp6iARlMrMJO3tPrhBxL2Dg173DQ89KeduUE3ZdlnAzozPV2atMg8Ta-8QM/s1600/12-20+Bank+3+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsKS-IpkVzP9VFeqtkEwQ9SXQ4ZoX0Y15Mh_lQRPHAX1Kzk7-lWyi_FzFT4YynG4F1GSd2afJlsjY5-XJQDp6iARlMrMJO3tPrhBxL2Dg173DQ89KeduUE3ZdlnAzozPV2atMg8Ta-8QM/s400/12-20+Bank+3+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552933669124749922" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />So, it can't be demolished and even on the inside, attention must be paid!<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQQravL-3VZCNjjIBPlbJY54lBztlj8JJ_Py9fvgwFoGCCiGdYgRw-t_VKYLe42Is3uDywYM-JKc0d4mr-6g1k9HVUwz7OhQn9g7t3PGaBgXSM6_W6bGoB1MIaInf2Gwzd1WAnIwOugE/s1600/12-20+Bank+6+ad.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRQQravL-3VZCNjjIBPlbJY54lBztlj8JJ_Py9fvgwFoGCCiGdYgRw-t_VKYLe42Is3uDywYM-JKc0d4mr-6g1k9HVUwz7OhQn9g7t3PGaBgXSM6_W6bGoB1MIaInf2Gwzd1WAnIwOugE/s400/12-20+Bank+6+ad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552934285955044018" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br />I just hope to hell it doesn't stand derelict. As a matter of fact, that could be an interesting few blocks there along Broadway, as there are several other landmarked buildings nearby and some nice older buildings that have no chance of being landmarked but help with the general atmosphere.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxNMI60bz67nFyMQVCaVZi9ryhfyttqV-dxqwFBlAafOxqtpHhu9oo9qhNAiji3CWdO3wrGuZs6yx45UTJVTRJQT-cUb7VwcuF1CVmdFk19ouLrheF53YupboVsZ_7ChbGn01WI-hzVI/s1600/12-20+Bank+7.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWxNMI60bz67nFyMQVCaVZi9ryhfyttqV-dxqwFBlAafOxqtpHhu9oo9qhNAiji3CWdO3wrGuZs6yx45UTJVTRJQT-cUb7VwcuF1CVmdFk19ouLrheF53YupboVsZ_7ChbGn01WI-hzVI/s400/12-20+Bank+7.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552936156288433570" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-37595216460677496632010-12-13T21:26:00.046-05:002010-12-16T10:12:50.239-05:00HSBC Does the Right Thing<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxKYZiBpBB9yzJX7q-MtDnRpqz-zCPGwMIdcSecDGwcAkAszbM3HB-R3HRVVTJCXZIrgzOOT4Tjwo7LLOd_ukku3SinkKxoJ8OYliNQrRPvbLDZLNF_wxGWflO48W2eZetj2UuAhjijY/s1600/6-30-10+Bank+4+adj.+resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxKYZiBpBB9yzJX7q-MtDnRpqz-zCPGwMIdcSecDGwcAkAszbM3HB-R3HRVVTJCXZIrgzOOT4Tjwo7LLOd_ukku3SinkKxoJ8OYliNQrRPvbLDZLNF_wxGWflO48W2eZetj2UuAhjijY/s400/6-30-10+Bank+4+adj.+resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550371745846752418" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Only, I'm not sure they did it because it was right or because it was just expedient or convenient.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">(I am almost back in business. I have a new PC but too many of my old photos are on the old PC. A friend said he could probably rescue them, so I am hopeful.)<br /><br /></span><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFYQrvtcb3wre8RX12AXpEbIWN1KNSaaElzY5GuVUDbB5w3gdp-wtaIND5eJWdiAaXXnyD_Sl4xOn2RNaX-1twjAoScMy57ZoLoisy-INNwrkCgFWijqIY-ygFwyCOe-3gIIPOzCyrZdc/s1600/1-25-10+Bank+1+adj+resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFYQrvtcb3wre8RX12AXpEbIWN1KNSaaElzY5GuVUDbB5w3gdp-wtaIND5eJWdiAaXXnyD_Sl4xOn2RNaX-1twjAoScMy57ZoLoisy-INNwrkCgFWijqIY-ygFwyCOe-3gIIPOzCyrZdc/s400/1-25-10+Bank+1+adj+resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550365334071533970" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I don't keep track of bank mergers and acquisitions so I don't know when it happened, but at some point the Williamsburgh Savings Bank became part of HSBC. And HSBC at that point did what all banks do under the circumstances and obliterated any evidence of the former bank's existence.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7V05q4yn86rQAey-2BENT16nThXm4d58DO-gr1nFMP2M8FI-408U6EL40Y7ldtonBeMgbohB_6DXy400-uSbO84Pf_IxFmp4XB6SmLOVVLbRukY9yStpHQEanK5ddlbqiBesLEup_iio/s1600/1-25-10+Bank+2+adj+resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7V05q4yn86rQAey-2BENT16nThXm4d58DO-gr1nFMP2M8FI-408U6EL40Y7ldtonBeMgbohB_6DXy400-uSbO84Pf_IxFmp4XB6SmLOVVLbRukY9yStpHQEanK5ddlbqiBesLEup_iio/s400/1-25-10+Bank+2+adj+resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550365498650821330" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That's not a big deal if you're taking over branches that have been built only in the last ten or twenty or thirty or whatever years. Modern branches in modern buildings. A bright new logo replaces a bright old logo and no one can tell the difference.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mkUQZDv8pvH5qOSB4-cGVyn64Z1YU6LqW_rHSGhJ_RG2mCS5GGAYRF5PpsU4ITCuFtjXjtk7HdyoL8J0I7MvsRyEQ4ASELviqFqsTDeGK9XaUnVgafI1AAIPjGNyUhjjcEGuXiNPOAs/s1600/Bank+6.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mkUQZDv8pvH5qOSB4-cGVyn64Z1YU6LqW_rHSGhJ_RG2mCS5GGAYRF5PpsU4ITCuFtjXjtk7HdyoL8J0I7MvsRyEQ4ASELviqFqsTDeGK9XaUnVgafI1AAIPjGNyUhjjcEGuXiNPOAs/s400/Bank+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550365725130370546" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But it's different if the building was thrown up at the end of the 19th century as was the original headquarters of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkrr6i_mwCbchKDGTkemPAFEoR1NejWKEVQRcoxRQKMdlc9tH3XJzInmrCN_a0InMdzBQKz6T-Dq65JTa-cgPtxDFkhHXvhrfToO7ZqEFErIb8QgHDCuQCyPyf3apPFpPVc1feYcOtSis/s1600/Bank+6.jpg"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ></span></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-O4OiA1QQNeGnBfrzEUEpLEqtI2l-g2BmhYCqqe_cSAol_dJppKSX4M39SnBllzePmjJEQHcCD0VeCcAITAEgWRWAdD80PIr9kDEqmu68rmhj5BdZaQpoXFwM224atBFrqlb9gja5ag/s1600/Bank+7.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-O4OiA1QQNeGnBfrzEUEpLEqtI2l-g2BmhYCqqe_cSAol_dJppKSX4M39SnBllzePmjJEQHcCD0VeCcAITAEgWRWAdD80PIr9kDEqmu68rmhj5BdZaQpoXFwM224atBFrqlb9gja5ag/s400/Bank+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550366185124593170" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I would have thought that with all the photos I have been taking around Brooklyn, and especially around Williamsburg, I would have a lot of this bank at Driggs Ave. and Broadway. And I think I do . . . on the conked out hard drive of the old computer. Still, I was able to drag up the photos here from various dates from another source.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0-O4OiA1QQNeGnBfrzEUEpLEqtI2l-g2BmhYCqqe_cSAol_dJppKSX4M39SnBllzePmjJEQHcCD0VeCcAITAEgWRWAdD80PIr9kDEqmu68rmhj5BdZaQpoXFwM224atBFrqlb9gja5ag/s1600/Bank+7.jpg"><br /></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBLXy6qNFPrIYET4zKxH0mgvt0iIaExzY1_VhblQCLDYdYth4Ibe1Mu82cbTTIKGPVzO4dIAJC-3GmiPsdgtBoNZBNBE_BCxQiRRkCdJ3p54hyhj3KEDaykOjvfrybphwtezwYUCKmWsg/s1600/6-6-09+Bank+3+resamp+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBLXy6qNFPrIYET4zKxH0mgvt0iIaExzY1_VhblQCLDYdYth4Ibe1Mu82cbTTIKGPVzO4dIAJC-3GmiPsdgtBoNZBNBE_BCxQiRRkCdJ3p54hyhj3KEDaykOjvfrybphwtezwYUCKmWsg/s400/6-6-09+Bank+3+resamp+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550376508078965970" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Since that was the way the bank looked when I first moved over here, I must have assumed they just threw up those red and white signs wherever it seemed convenient: over doors, over windows, on windows, on the roof, wherever.</span><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now, that's no way to treat a beautiful building. I always thought that if they cared, they could have found a way to keep their name on the bank without vandalizing it, which is close to what it amounted to in my mind. But that would have taken more time and thought than they may have wanted to give to it.<br /><br /><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This past Saturday on my regular weekly trek to the library at Grand Army Plaza, I walked past the bank and thought that something was wrong, a bit off. It turned out that something was right but it took me a few moments to realize what had happened.</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijan4xdh9g92WO29RMajsKGK5MS9qH8LWUIUHfEwcAuQYVLECuHcoHUm-XP4S2QiLdaN8xiUsCvhqlfgLR_DcyiZ1gt44GPD3I2nfiYM4uwSTP8Mc_INZSdVEKqkG7pzFAxC5cLBorfwY/s1600/PC110001+ad+resj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijan4xdh9g92WO29RMajsKGK5MS9qH8LWUIUHfEwcAuQYVLECuHcoHUm-XP4S2QiLdaN8xiUsCvhqlfgLR_DcyiZ1gt44GPD3I2nfiYM4uwSTP8Mc_INZSdVEKqkG7pzFAxC5cLBorfwY/s400/PC110001+ad+resj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550368835530646482" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">All the garish HSBC signs had been removed and the building was back to as close as it could be to the time it was built, barring a good scrub.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAJSYTMjXosp2df6HN_bjaQFqcVVzPzyLzB8VjmxZfrWEe-wR9WYP8GTFLLxt2Ohxwz-saVsr-tNIONh_2ed361lboXbBTjvp0YcYIJzctSW_u6wU5EBF1vRZZW11bqMV0DFLF8OmHQg/s1600/PC110003+auto+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAJSYTMjXosp2df6HN_bjaQFqcVVzPzyLzB8VjmxZfrWEe-wR9WYP8GTFLLxt2Ohxwz-saVsr-tNIONh_2ed361lboXbBTjvp0YcYIJzctSW_u6wU5EBF1vRZZW11bqMV0DFLF8OmHQg/s400/PC110003+auto+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550369113246102706" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Although, the building itself really isn't that dirty. It may not gleam the way it did originally, but it ain't bad. But if a local philanthropist wanted to underwrite a good cleaning, it would be a great contribution toward making life in Williamsburg just that much more pleasant.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs1ZN6T4xD4TXGRYY7p9UpM0Z4dNNp7Lc-WXMlgRSgT-IBbg7H8p1KqN3Zk0nUhdzsUyS5yUE6eZijMYOmLMklc6StLsKTpBapDrUCXJdwxm5-8P2rpf6v0ARBTTHT8oCXfBoSRBNyS1I/s1600/PC110037+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs1ZN6T4xD4TXGRYY7p9UpM0Z4dNNp7Lc-WXMlgRSgT-IBbg7H8p1KqN3Zk0nUhdzsUyS5yUE6eZijMYOmLMklc6StLsKTpBapDrUCXJdwxm5-8P2rpf6v0ARBTTHT8oCXfBoSRBNyS1I/s400/PC110037+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550369274863766578" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXAJSYTMjXosp2df6HN_bjaQFqcVVzPzyLzB8VjmxZfrWEe-wR9WYP8GTFLLxt2Ohxwz-saVsr-tNIONh_2ed361lboXbBTjvp0YcYIJzctSW_u6wU5EBF1vRZZW11bqMV0DFLF8OmHQg/s1600/PC110003+auto+res.jpg"><br /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And I do hope they plan to get rid of the iron frame in front of the dome. A dome that always seemed to me to be a kind of riff on the Duomo in Florence.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKlVjlZHNGjBEtitfsUJ2LDkI3whofTd4wXtSp1AuYPOBfDFPXuufn6aUUR_au3m829B5O4-9rS7LEjE4mwNjJUGn_wnrOJYqElK-hH1SI2gH74-n8BGOb09IOkHcd6U60K44Z2Z-19Q/s1600/PC110040+auto+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIKlVjlZHNGjBEtitfsUJ2LDkI3whofTd4wXtSp1AuYPOBfDFPXuufn6aUUR_au3m829B5O4-9rS7LEjE4mwNjJUGn_wnrOJYqElK-hH1SI2gH74-n8BGOb09IOkHcd6U60K44Z2Z-19Q/s400/PC110040+auto+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550369459326567074" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I have no idea whether the building has been landmarked; it would surprise me if it hasn't been. But <span style="font-style: italic;">if</span> it hasn't been, it could see even worse if HSBC gets rid of it. If they plan to stay there, why remove the signage? Thinking about it, if they were able to erect all those HSBC signs, maybe the building <span style="font-style: italic;">isn't</span> landmarked.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvFfT7fHF5IJi1Qb2R_k5nmVqOyF2JtoqamyJDf82cXAn534wHtat8CmJ0cItp-OFwp1R2I7-rALmwiwIVSq6kCEC40bm0U4_MO5OvbHiLSrLIh2M7VvnQz8SpYxNrq3dVbavxg2b2g8/s1600/PC110041+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvFfT7fHF5IJi1Qb2R_k5nmVqOyF2JtoqamyJDf82cXAn534wHtat8CmJ0cItp-OFwp1R2I7-rALmwiwIVSq6kCEC40bm0U4_MO5OvbHiLSrLIh2M7VvnQz8SpYxNrq3dVbavxg2b2g8/s400/PC110041+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550369614379304162" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It truly is a remarkable building.</span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsh8dtuyGyfuaDfav-CnlduYsxSl0xNRckYiJV3G3sswz0THqsiH1PGaNDFHnOAJGToU0bmq4FPZIY0R4-CdtlpaFoEG_5vt457wZWWwGBpDFh4OiFfdUmJWPazMI1RM4jhD7LRBhTqHI/s1600/PC110042+adj+res.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsh8dtuyGyfuaDfav-CnlduYsxSl0xNRckYiJV3G3sswz0THqsiH1PGaNDFHnOAJGToU0bmq4FPZIY0R4-CdtlpaFoEG_5vt457wZWWwGBpDFh4OiFfdUmJWPazMI1RM4jhD7LRBhTqHI/s400/PC110042+adj+res.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550369731285913442" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">But it has a deserted and abandoned look about it now, especially at night. In some other city, this building would be floodlighted and and a use would be found for it that would make the most of its special qualities; the light below is from the high intensity street lamp, around front it's black as pitch. In Brooklyn, circa 2011, some lean and hungry developer probably has his eye on it even now wondering how many floors he can get away with in a nice green glass and steel box in that location.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1PRR8pwWSfXOrHsrrYpPPf7CAQ3Yq5zxiWYeTKEOpNsn1CRlN4PTzryr7JAiXG-gY-1WIiO8FFN0s-gWzco8_0X_eVag3-z49qOpkwNKZos0jjRfO9j2kRDE8HIY3hVOJo7SVG6hw3g/s1600/Bank+12-15+2+resamp+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL1PRR8pwWSfXOrHsrrYpPPf7CAQ3Yq5zxiWYeTKEOpNsn1CRlN4PTzryr7JAiXG-gY-1WIiO8FFN0s-gWzco8_0X_eVag3-z49qOpkwNKZos0jjRfO9j2kRDE8HIY3hVOJo7SVG6hw3g/s400/Bank+12-15+2+resamp+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551066550792464018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4V781nKLm8ZE19jvSMgoe34WsKA1SpO8qd2AX8RpS2sg5DkNetXsuM5SuSc1N_7AqVG_hehuElGrLZhoz8hLOPm77Xvpib1BduVuACPVQWuEqOt_WZ7l_tV9nx7RAjykl5BTgbgRYN0/s1600/Bank+12-15+3+resamp+adj.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu4V781nKLm8ZE19jvSMgoe34WsKA1SpO8qd2AX8RpS2sg5DkNetXsuM5SuSc1N_7AqVG_hehuElGrLZhoz8hLOPm77Xvpib1BduVuACPVQWuEqOt_WZ7l_tV9nx7RAjykl5BTgbgRYN0/s400/Bank+12-15+3+resamp+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5551066744412921650" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">One clue could be the new HSBC branch just dropped into the Northside, next door to the infamous Duane-Reade, at North 3rd street and Bedford Ave. At first I thought this was a small branch but it could well be replacing Broadway and Driggs. Strange to close it, when other banks are <span style="font-style: italic;">opening</span> out on Broadway.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvFfT7fHF5IJi1Qb2R_k5nmVqOyF2JtoqamyJDf82cXAn534wHtat8CmJ0cItp-OFwp1R2I7-rALmwiwIVSq6kCEC40bm0U4_MO5OvbHiLSrLIh2M7VvnQz8SpYxNrq3dVbavxg2b2g8/s1600/PC110041+adj+res.jpg"><br /></a></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6L7tz9h8r-cYZ2g_WfLe7Tsc8nsC3SpeYKsE6463tFd5yC36nE0NPHvDBgSoqkT24KILgwVSyy1Bkkdv_eYjmTlU7NCywyBnjB4MiXARZDgGQvjVnKuDVn02n-_2X9_wL0Wb9JDTKeHI/s1600/HSBC+adj+resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6L7tz9h8r-cYZ2g_WfLe7Tsc8nsC3SpeYKsE6463tFd5yC36nE0NPHvDBgSoqkT24KILgwVSyy1Bkkdv_eYjmTlU7NCywyBnjB4MiXARZDgGQvjVnKuDVn02n-_2X9_wL0Wb9JDTKeHI/s400/HSBC+adj+resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550571245716281410" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I took the not-so-hot nighttime shot below several weeks ago before the HSBC signs were completed. It's giving us a further taste of midtown Manhattan with its bright lights-big city air.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ySFIfcPHVFxIfXGYoiJYvNTo8IhF2_2UScvk4I70m1C8U47F7NxhWTRYQ5PjuvJB5199qeeOY_LXXnJkkW8SnQdDJn3htlF_LIo-XUFLfu-pkZbg-3Lllrr0mn23SrXK2FRk374z6aQ/s1600/PB250027+adj..jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8ySFIfcPHVFxIfXGYoiJYvNTo8IhF2_2UScvk4I70m1C8U47F7NxhWTRYQ5PjuvJB5199qeeOY_LXXnJkkW8SnQdDJn3htlF_LIo-XUFLfu-pkZbg-3Lllrr0mn23SrXK2FRk374z6aQ/s400/PB250027+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550374762651300594" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-14362741512596234312010-11-12T13:12:00.010-05:002010-11-12T16:20:44.288-05:00Forget Duane-Reade . . .<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">. . . You know that you're just an ordinary neighborhood after all when the nail salons begin moving in. Haha!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVW3E-nMj8GJPoxallU6mNAH08RAROLej-gD4mYzARHpH3OTiFDq8VK8kcAYwJVG3eVxLhHQ4vNDQz9wU_TA80ZXDxhlQrGPB9-y_vhm4GypWXBx1sayYejcfcIPkIV8dcNRLf8EIeddE/s1600/Nail+spa+for+blog.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVW3E-nMj8GJPoxallU6mNAH08RAROLej-gD4mYzARHpH3OTiFDq8VK8kcAYwJVG3eVxLhHQ4vNDQz9wU_TA80ZXDxhlQrGPB9-y_vhm4GypWXBx1sayYejcfcIPkIV8dcNRLf8EIeddE/s400/Nail+spa+for+blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538729249224794802" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />That's down near the L train station on Bedford Ave. Not a great picture but I took it on a whim one evening walking home. Same with the shot below.<br /><br /></span><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHjkqBtGzp_PeX_naZivFoJpmmlIo-aqHiMuwDgPLYX4pq6ebHjdm2V9w8NaaeTBpPjjnXEsWb9no7rxlTJ0HlIpIjn5BlsZMFhUMpvBZkAKst1ov9BMVYV9WhM8zXQWTfcitVpvTMfE/s1600/DR+for+Blog.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKHjkqBtGzp_PeX_naZivFoJpmmlIo-aqHiMuwDgPLYX4pq6ebHjdm2V9w8NaaeTBpPjjnXEsWb9no7rxlTJ0HlIpIjn5BlsZMFhUMpvBZkAKst1ov9BMVYV9WhM8zXQWTfcitVpvTMfE/s400/DR+for+Blog.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538729575096603282" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The now notorious Duane-Reade up on Bedford Ave. near North 3rd Street that opened last week.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">As usual, the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span> aims to put it all in perspective for you . . .</span><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/13/nyregion/13metjournal.html?hp"><br />Williamsburg and the Chain Stores</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Some random thoughts:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I am not a big Duane-Reade fan at all. There's nothing wrong with their products except that they're usually a little more "white bread" than I like. What annoys the hell out of me is that they aim to monopolize the drug store business in New York City.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It's like the old Model T, you could have any color car you wanted . . . as long as it was black.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You can go to any drug store you want, no one is stopping you . . . as long as it's a Duane-Reade.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There is a Duane-Reade three blocks away on Kent Avenue. People need a D-R on each corner?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Also, I like Anthony at King's; he's a nice, friendly guy who makes you feel like you're really appreciated as a customer.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Yes, we could use another supermarket in the neighborhood to balance C-Town and Tops, but Food Emporium is hardly the low cost chain I would welcome. Instead of two pricey supermarkets, we would have three.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">We're only a couple of stops from Union Square on the L. Food Emporium, Trader Joes, Whole Food, Garden of Eden, and scads of other places. Nor are we that far from all the stores of Greenpoint and the Greenmarket in McCarren Park, so we don't lack for variety, just variety right around the corner.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now let me go and check out that Facebook page!<br /><br />The <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/group.php?gid=253725521121">Boycott Duane-Reade Facebook page</a> is interesting because there is a lot of give and take there about those wanting to boycott Duane-Reade maybe being not a hell of a lot better than anyone else; wanting to keep the high end little food shops and boutiques, and having displaced the old neighborhood residents and caused higher rents just as newcomers are supposed to be doing now.<br /><br />It reminds me about all the brouhaha over Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village going co-op and pushing the longtime middle class renters out in favor of the newly rich who can afford higher prices; but no one remembers that ST-PCV themselves displaced a lot of lower-income people when blocks of housing were condemned and demolished to make room for the middle class renters.<br /></span><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-65944758668548781052010-11-08T13:46:00.014-05:002010-11-08T16:07:21.601-05:00Marathon<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlvUn6LkDbMgMJGXNpEsQnUM6uQNaNFPt2tuIAjsPH7QQkCYAqG26ArVp0kUXNA5UFjSALZLIcgz2FbTOWM3UvqAG223steQnz0DgpFrUtBwHhBvmAWxChwgWewqJYq2qAql7LPydq1U/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+008resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxlvUn6LkDbMgMJGXNpEsQnUM6uQNaNFPt2tuIAjsPH7QQkCYAqG26ArVp0kUXNA5UFjSALZLIcgz2FbTOWM3UvqAG223steQnz0DgpFrUtBwHhBvmAWxChwgWewqJYq2qAql7LPydq1U/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+008resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537254657694110210" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Lately, I've been feeling a bit like Old Mr. Grace; I don't get around much anymore. Between my plantar fasciitis (it wasn't a bone spur after all), which is improving with the new sneakers I bought, and the, apparently irremediable, breakdown of my PC, my blog hasn't been doing too well lately.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsHdutn434JqV8r6kNmMgcroYl5WPZdklo12TeoGHn4o6C_sTsbrWnPA1kKPcY4BSOdJXR9WbqTuTACfpaAJO7TCWlMI0L0EtV2jNw-pp-uu4BztLTrhg4cVW66zkNN_X3umXIXsosLY/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+009resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijsHdutn434JqV8r6kNmMgcroYl5WPZdklo12TeoGHn4o6C_sTsbrWnPA1kKPcY4BSOdJXR9WbqTuTACfpaAJO7TCWlMI0L0EtV2jNw-pp-uu4BztLTrhg4cVW66zkNN_X3umXIXsosLY/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+009resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537254755680963874" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">A lot of photos are stuck on the hard drive of the PC. I hope I can rescue them when I get the new PC but that remains to be seen.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxSHusxry65wjAkhG9Jsqg1ufMcSamln_5-RzYp7HXuKoyXErsAhPNtqbGtztzgQOTEl7kLO9MhJN-o0tf9uOSi8gKz23PBwJCIDrrejDDal6aWdk6D589iz8F_dEXqsUZ2ALyrUMLHY/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+010resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxSHusxry65wjAkhG9Jsqg1ufMcSamln_5-RzYp7HXuKoyXErsAhPNtqbGtztzgQOTEl7kLO9MhJN-o0tf9uOSi8gKz23PBwJCIDrrejDDal6aWdk6D589iz8F_dEXqsUZ2ALyrUMLHY/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+010resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537254895162826402" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">At least I didn't have to walk too far to watch the marathon pass through Williamsburg, just a block. And I was able to download some photos and videos to a friend's laptop, burn them to a CD, and take them to my office Mac to upload at lunchtime. A roundabout way of doing things but better than nothing.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGZ8UIFjyythUmqggNDrc8hwvFvUiNK3Kn97FYcULuXbtG9NlF-hVEeP9p6MQW3izBEdCSHRtnBqs8o9mIxEg0zdVe1daCRsp3sODsZDvLX6yTs0Gkd-9qoDCh_R1l02K470rPnNPl58/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+011resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrGZ8UIFjyythUmqggNDrc8hwvFvUiNK3Kn97FYcULuXbtG9NlF-hVEeP9p6MQW3izBEdCSHRtnBqs8o9mIxEg0zdVe1daCRsp3sODsZDvLX6yTs0Gkd-9qoDCh_R1l02K470rPnNPl58/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+011resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537255041983200642" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So here are some random photos and videos of the NYC Marathon as it passed Grand Street and Bedford Avenue yesterday morning. I think my friend with the laptop took much better photos (he has a much better camera) that I may add later.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAZ2VEO_IaW7xA79272qmf4yzxcI6I_bpalbSiKPqBqX38Wax-n-zAlYbXelfQPEqarzh7_RSOWY81NkVETkVpHB7jMz74oev5tIPwX4QlGoRrm4hIQlt-W-1__oXvbftA_aqbt_GdrM/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+012resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbAZ2VEO_IaW7xA79272qmf4yzxcI6I_bpalbSiKPqBqX38Wax-n-zAlYbXelfQPEqarzh7_RSOWY81NkVETkVpHB7jMz74oev5tIPwX4QlGoRrm4hIQlt-W-1__oXvbftA_aqbt_GdrM/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+012resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537255631923931506" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">That bakery in the background of the video (and the top photo), La Villita, is the best little bakery in the neighborhood, owned and operated by a bunch of wonderful people.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nJYI5nKm8xo438sBH3Q7bEoZgV0jgHGNIcHWw6ranOjMq4DFNTgV6Tx-hniwDA2r6oESDpmyytzltrNUW99qEu-Ea6bXcIv0fI3sN4SsLgS2T_55Ww855f-B8LTce0G9g_Csf_6o7IM/s1600/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+013resamp.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nJYI5nKm8xo438sBH3Q7bEoZgV0jgHGNIcHWw6ranOjMq4DFNTgV6Tx-hniwDA2r6oESDpmyytzltrNUW99qEu-Ea6bXcIv0fI3sN4SsLgS2T_55Ww855f-B8LTce0G9g_Csf_6o7IM/s400/11-7-10+Marathon+Bklyn+A+013resamp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537255782367322322" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz5EO_nQZQnDWbmGDgWYSXZyC01ZNQmcI_pscZWqBtTXRqogj06no0jVmJZYDxr6gEDVMlsqiK5aRD8SCmIpA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzRuExvzMh2VgXfiVhvJpjW0ZOdF5l8MW9uC13BaxwfSESsMlhDG5dXytNDFbLyIs2rzX4_XS6L834O4Jct5w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxf3EzGcD1pLF8VJJ2xmSOX9k5tpd4ZD9Bi1CJNymrqzOime_XyVHcXF0LkFAzxl69FYMf3nBIbcS3V8OTKZA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxOOPB9EDJi6F7eKZRJ0aX48cUqohpYAd2HJI8i3PxDJuP_KHDBKoSdQKHwIar0YYf_78l5G1M1b1b1FnmxKQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-70489808660598035062010-10-07T15:23:00.002-04:002010-10-07T15:26:07.064-04:00Just to keep my hand in<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">A cute Brooklyn story that only requires a link, not anything from my computer:</span></span><br /><br /><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/after-decades-remains-of-a-magical-voice-will-come-to-rest/?ref=nyregion">The Diva's Ashes</a>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-2978148272243478692010-10-06T09:28:00.000-04:002010-10-06T09:29:31.628-04:00SIGH!> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> <o:words>45</o:Words> <o:characters>259</o:Characters> <o:lines>2</o:Lines> <o:paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs> <o:characterswithspaces>318</o:CharactersWithSpaces> <o:version>11.1287</o:Version> </o:DocumentProperties> <o:officedocumentsettings> <o:allowpng/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:displayhorizontaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:displayverticaldrawinggridevery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:usemarginsfordrawinggridorigin/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New Roman"; 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Right now, I have no idea what’s wrong or how to fix it and I don’t foresee continuing this blog for some time since all of my photos are on the PC.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-11271240426193960472010-09-13T20:43:00.038-04:002010-09-17T23:06:18.747-04:00Stalled in Fort Greeneton Hill<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Before I dredge up a few more summer memories and continue my walk to Bay Ridge . . . that vegetative church tower in Bed-Stuy prompted me to keep my eyes peeled for more of the same and, sure enough, I found another one nearby here in Williamsburg,</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_cX8mIRScJyowgi6GsS2iyleof77P4O4LGM63ikAuOZBHWLWybhXdRHrzxuV3UJitNG4NXRajD9iEUKBItoAdaHS2qTcXgRnVcgdblJEH6oPKXabXbJEFxs7OBeCOp-fAZdHUkgG7dw/s1600/9-1-10+Wlbrg+St+Vncent+de+Paul+1860++003.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_cX8mIRScJyowgi6GsS2iyleof77P4O4LGM63ikAuOZBHWLWybhXdRHrzxuV3UJitNG4NXRajD9iEUKBItoAdaHS2qTcXgRnVcgdblJEH6oPKXabXbJEFxs7OBeCOp-fAZdHUkgG7dw/s400/9-1-10+Wlbrg+St+Vncent+de+Paul+1860++003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516564675356719298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >North 6th St, between Driggs and Bedford Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This is, or was, the Church of St. Vincent de Paul on North 6th Street in Williamsburg, but I don't know for how long.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3FiWOMWxQCHNKrYkUDdSB7iQ9P3EP_u8Hr7i4RRx2zy9UFsS7HvDFzJepZvb_W-wusTAXQg5FWi4SjW7HCPohMw5Zn0JaRnFWCtXEYn_lOCvuO0QTl01_g7oDrbmabN7vEnRwnuX8j4/s1600/9-1-10+Wlbrg+St+Vncent+de+Paul+1860++003+A.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3FiWOMWxQCHNKrYkUDdSB7iQ9P3EP_u8Hr7i4RRx2zy9UFsS7HvDFzJepZvb_W-wusTAXQg5FWi4SjW7HCPohMw5Zn0JaRnFWCtXEYn_lOCvuO0QTl01_g7oDrbmabN7vEnRwnuX8j4/s400/9-1-10+Wlbrg+St+Vncent+de+Paul+1860++003+A.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516565366180849122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The front of the church is already blocked off with scaffolding and wire fencing and the omens do not appear favorable. Maybe the congregation is just preparing to repair the church fabric but this being what you might call ground zero of the glass box co-op building, it seems more likely that another old church will make the ultimate sacrifice that the trenderatti might live and prosper. But I hope not; maybe they can find another income-producing use for it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">So where was I a few weeks ago? Wandering Clinton Hill, I guess.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I don't generally take a lot of pictures in Clinton Hill and Fort Greene despite being through there so much. Sometimes I think the place is so damn picturesque that I just want to buy some postcards and have done with it. If I started taking pictures I'd never stop, there would always be "just one more." And even though they are two separate neighborhoods and had separate histories, today they really form one large super historic and photogenic neighborhood . . . Fort Greeneton Hill or something.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">These photos were not all taken on the day of the walk to Bay Ridge but over the course of the spring and summer from late May through July.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8rpR-aVofCeisqoMFt1sPkG8b_VxnGIWdLFJONdtS2aMa_IXLBvYNex04lts2aMJsKIqExaJtbyVYiHMgvQoUXTDu4eNtBJnVude2q-f49_2u0_-SQR1gCkpVJhzlUc7qgl0DCFPPqjM/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+013+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8rpR-aVofCeisqoMFt1sPkG8b_VxnGIWdLFJONdtS2aMa_IXLBvYNex04lts2aMJsKIqExaJtbyVYiHMgvQoUXTDu4eNtBJnVude2q-f49_2u0_-SQR1gCkpVJhzlUc7qgl0DCFPPqjM/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+013+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517293071938011442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Washington Ave. near Greene Ave.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You could spend a lot of time going through Clinton Hill and taking note of all the different styles of architecture from different periods and matching different houses with various well-known capitalists from Brooklyn's past who lived in them, but that's more than I want to take on at the moment. I just enjoy walking through the area and looking.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPgOVFfiKCZWHk6kn-j9Sii0QdwarJ12ZEg56WOk4rQqYxOU8n4lin0ODpWHH2IlGnTmw2LU93YEFjrO2rvUmGuafKKnUB_BKEp034N8PA0B1ztkD4d6hSCKHR9-qdox5jaPJSYTQvVSE/s1600/7-3-10+Sat+Bed-Stuy+walk+078+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPgOVFfiKCZWHk6kn-j9Sii0QdwarJ12ZEg56WOk4rQqYxOU8n4lin0ODpWHH2IlGnTmw2LU93YEFjrO2rvUmGuafKKnUB_BKEp034N8PA0B1ztkD4d6hSCKHR9-qdox5jaPJSYTQvVSE/s400/7-3-10+Sat+Bed-Stuy+walk+078+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517294770073140722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Washington Ave. near Greene Ave.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKo_LNu7WIHFA4V_Csi9vH_AU3pH092yxP6-8nHxe1FoGeK88MhAV-N3VtWpPbPdK2A_e-oIKym0Uae3cPq8HGln582J7CPbj18bfy6mTr9nIV81PoUN6f8R14knH-I2o2J2fR_SDMgU/s1600/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+074+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtKo_LNu7WIHFA4V_Csi9vH_AU3pH092yxP6-8nHxe1FoGeK88MhAV-N3VtWpPbPdK2A_e-oIKym0Uae3cPq8HGln582J7CPbj18bfy6mTr9nIV81PoUN6f8R14knH-I2o2J2fR_SDMgU/s400/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+074+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517296523736717410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clifton Place at St. James Place; Adelphi Academy</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Adelphi Academy was founded by Charles Pratt who also founded Pratt Institute.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwqnzbY3m8n73YlaL7WcND3MmdA2afm79BebxAYRLr8GdxT7sm6qXAIfwNvr-UucU9TrCtR8isj7Xffj7tLw7IvZKBSX8hEqsjeAiKZ8OUB1tprU88_a-ISQhMOKVxfBE5CSVOSraFrA/s1600/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+073+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwqnzbY3m8n73YlaL7WcND3MmdA2afm79BebxAYRLr8GdxT7sm6qXAIfwNvr-UucU9TrCtR8isj7Xffj7tLw7IvZKBSX8hEqsjeAiKZ8OUB1tprU88_a-ISQhMOKVxfBE5CSVOSraFrA/s400/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+073+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517297179272907858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clifton Place at St. James Place</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">It is now part of Pratt Institute.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SZlXtu9E3-j4RULZm6J-RS_QmaHV-wZQCZjYzi5RsESpy5CIqCM-L5HaodYMlVESSkyAMAaIo_QNWZH2BxXYn3fG4Dr-5FqE4m4Kat1rpSuaYyOO37Do47JmnP1mceD58u8uTL0QUo4/s1600/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+076+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9SZlXtu9E3-j4RULZm6J-RS_QmaHV-wZQCZjYzi5RsESpy5CIqCM-L5HaodYMlVESSkyAMAaIo_QNWZH2BxXYn3fG4Dr-5FqE4m4Kat1rpSuaYyOO37Do47JmnP1mceD58u8uTL0QUo4/s400/7-5-10+Wlmsbrg-BedStuy-Clntn+076+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517297548213183618" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clifton Place at St. James Place</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I didn't quite get Clifton Place included on the map below. Toward the bottom right, just off St. James Place you can see a capital C, that's Clifton Place; what looks like a large, gray capital I on that corner is the Adelphi Academy.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iFxOO9C7CqrHnF-B4yULe2nTt8dJBAmN73NGS6n2EgK3TIBG69M1bTwe1k9m35sGWJ3CY2w5OlxLigvQVj-Ad8CZy9vWzIQ1xTvq1zPHLtdZHm-4cuSIts7lGMokKX6MLLbOls1Pmhk/s1600/Fort+Greeneton+Hill+map.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 279px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iFxOO9C7CqrHnF-B4yULe2nTt8dJBAmN73NGS6n2EgK3TIBG69M1bTwe1k9m35sGWJ3CY2w5OlxLigvQVj-Ad8CZy9vWzIQ1xTvq1zPHLtdZHm-4cuSIts7lGMokKX6MLLbOls1Pmhk/s400/Fort+Greeneton+Hill+map.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517306297404545618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Another college in that neighborhood is St. Joseph's, centered on Clinton Ave. The following buildings don't all belong to St. Joseph's (one belongs to Pratt) but they are all part of a fairly cohesive few blocks from, maybe, Myrtle Ave. to Lafayette Ave. (And beyond; after crossing Lafayette going toward Fulton St. the homes are equally attractive, I just don't happen to have any photos handy to drop in here.) Most of these are between Willoughby and DeKalb Avenues.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0wcOwpcVcVVc1qiAgVwoK1Nuk8eWXFF5Cgv9XUTYN1t5xSeKgrRmqrccypteECS6ufR4r-bk1msyKR34M2IdXXS9Ln3RoBljXb_U-8_2_58k6V4O9sjhwVyU9UCWCBql4JhZG_RLeMY/s1600/6-6-09+Bklyn+020+res+adj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis0wcOwpcVcVVc1qiAgVwoK1Nuk8eWXFF5Cgv9XUTYN1t5xSeKgrRmqrccypteECS6ufR4r-bk1msyKR34M2IdXXS9Ln3RoBljXb_U-8_2_58k6V4O9sjhwVyU9UCWCBql4JhZG_RLeMY/s400/6-6-09+Bklyn+020+res+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517301980847889154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Part of St. Joseph's College</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZYlG6l36A2v0unK1ZAdDqrxEO2F4x9Q_G_lcDm83NKka3KyzwJOsLbVc7bUcklzdI96bViF8DKdrawb3kAmJHDDIYbSVLhXKg99HH7z2nGzq2qZH0F-vHsHpHZCTx4yNuXaljCipdG8/s1600/6-6-09+Bklyn+021+adj.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMZYlG6l36A2v0unK1ZAdDqrxEO2F4x9Q_G_lcDm83NKka3KyzwJOsLbVc7bUcklzdI96bViF8DKdrawb3kAmJHDDIYbSVLhXKg99HH7z2nGzq2qZH0F-vHsHpHZCTx4yNuXaljCipdG8/s400/6-6-09+Bklyn+021+adj.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517302227258254498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Part of Pratt</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAe_wAQcIgOPg_K3LvJbyTpul17_lmG8_QgwszZNg0XTHnl58KmQBEGI5aT4DV0vG7D48Jz6wDjPpIxTEi7QG3Pl2c8pCuf864luqXtZrBkx5-nx-tSWqFcErWCmle7c0dnfI27NykzAk/s1600/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+135+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAe_wAQcIgOPg_K3LvJbyTpul17_lmG8_QgwszZNg0XTHnl58KmQBEGI5aT4DV0vG7D48Jz6wDjPpIxTEi7QG3Pl2c8pCuf864luqXtZrBkx5-nx-tSWqFcErWCmle7c0dnfI27NykzAk/s400/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+135+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517302454226818754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >This one, </span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >I think</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >, is the residence of the bishop of Brooklyn (Rom. Cath.)</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6C1y_GULkOJ-ZxpV8OU9owX0JG9LdeoWZmA3DLQmnoxC9lcaXJgoCpo50_P81dpET-KDx4ecPu-bCrqiFbZwEub93VJdTBg1XT6LL5JdneO2tBRYj13rlTJmTZa6KXB5GXOFJoffkN3A/s1600/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+134+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6C1y_GULkOJ-ZxpV8OU9owX0JG9LdeoWZmA3DLQmnoxC9lcaXJgoCpo50_P81dpET-KDx4ecPu-bCrqiFbZwEub93VJdTBg1XT6LL5JdneO2tBRYj13rlTJmTZa6KXB5GXOFJoffkN3A/s400/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+134+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517302641808445730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Those above belong to Pratt Institute.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrhhiNO0x_dDyqlyBVzspyLrpfyg-K8wxNcCEfx9RNT277cX7idBp8FPW5jFIUAk3IOLCzidKDtUmHfIl9zIxI4sFGQcRdG0s69HeIHwOLUPeQV1te5edjl1E-2sf5wObnD-3ZxTBVQc/s1600/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+131+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxrhhiNO0x_dDyqlyBVzspyLrpfyg-K8wxNcCEfx9RNT277cX7idBp8FPW5jFIUAk3IOLCzidKDtUmHfIl9zIxI4sFGQcRdG0s69HeIHwOLUPeQV1te5edjl1E-2sf5wObnD-3ZxTBVQc/s400/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+131+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517302821753706722" border="0" /></a><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgll8JGzLjzBnVBUOcljXxERFGTB-x73BEJsvSbqW6-ohGs3vlXytNFQLNVZ0T0iSOqxeOccXTTXsLISh9Yc812_nDJ-G7jBL00vhFnv7FN25K8soYMVprOD0x0mMwotApM9Ibjkr70yAw/s1600/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+141+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgll8JGzLjzBnVBUOcljXxERFGTB-x73BEJsvSbqW6-ohGs3vlXytNFQLNVZ0T0iSOqxeOccXTTXsLISh9Yc812_nDJ-G7jBL00vhFnv7FN25K8soYMVprOD0x0mMwotApM9Ibjkr70yAw/s400/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+141+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517303017884524818" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-3CU-4MX_f7uAQDavP-rs9eQU4cmB3qQqThLT9qD_TJjpQRsnI5xApjy6NyTG4Q4ArRwGP4deh6u1e0PESejdsv1qrNAuK9bFZOcty2D2MOG7WnfGzbQsPH-nnaQfCtANT6J1qQtRo4/s1600/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+140+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN-3CU-4MX_f7uAQDavP-rs9eQU4cmB3qQqThLT9qD_TJjpQRsnI5xApjy6NyTG4Q4ArRwGP4deh6u1e0PESejdsv1qrNAuK9bFZOcty2D2MOG7WnfGzbQsPH-nnaQfCtANT6J1qQtRo4/s400/5-21-10+Fri+walk+Prosp+Park+140+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517303213614798706" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This little beauty (</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" >below</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">) is around the corner at Vanderbilt Ave. and Lafayette Ave.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMRgZueyieuTNTZiY4j-H-H3ss6QMPQ1qOwCHrNsa5AZgQF0f0K2YcMsJwN_z7tNklel8IqG6ZhnxwV9zLUOat6Asq9hHF_wue7x_0SIZJ97V-H8n_IKq_1KFXX3JtYeB-XjhNf7yehk/s1600/6-10-10+Lower+Bdway-GrndArmPlza-Lib+021+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVMRgZueyieuTNTZiY4j-H-H3ss6QMPQ1qOwCHrNsa5AZgQF0f0K2YcMsJwN_z7tNklel8IqG6ZhnxwV9zLUOat6Asq9hHF_wue7x_0SIZJ97V-H8n_IKq_1KFXX3JtYeB-XjhNf7yehk/s400/6-10-10+Lower+Bdway-GrndArmPlza-Lib+021+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517306873783731714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGFp67pCVcnIpdVWsCRtBUXrErJDcdCJRyycQem8R8ksBqpjoHnHW7nGFe75cxXvbdFe4sng6mIaPneJNrOTYWlobr-UScHXN6FRO3OMxdA1fR_WmzPiB2KbPLAdaYj7Xsy8qIyIRQyk/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+068+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGFp67pCVcnIpdVWsCRtBUXrErJDcdCJRyycQem8R8ksBqpjoHnHW7nGFe75cxXvbdFe4sng6mIaPneJNrOTYWlobr-UScHXN6FRO3OMxdA1fR_WmzPiB2KbPLAdaYj7Xsy8qIyIRQyk/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+068+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517317962386801682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Paul Robeson Theater, Greene Ave. bet. Adelphi St. & Carlton Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyCNgBmEFvyLhY4Hbkig9-M_-9xFI-hyTP0690plfxzSOyB-PXVecFeK7r2qpNVrALGvZfwiocAcA2wV1Cvv0SgmNaEkBTRqowhNPByTdWBzYVBwRyGjLadn2fPz-c2BKwuT6g745dfE/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+070+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyCNgBmEFvyLhY4Hbkig9-M_-9xFI-hyTP0690plfxzSOyB-PXVecFeK7r2qpNVrALGvZfwiocAcA2wV1Cvv0SgmNaEkBTRqowhNPByTdWBzYVBwRyGjLadn2fPz-c2BKwuT6g745dfE/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+070+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517318264693937346" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Paul Robeson Theater, Greene Ave. bet. Adelphi St. & Carlton Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Some other older frame houses . . . when the living was easy . . .</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpb_5kGzi12iKE05nkq2_LgcZ6a867uZ3VrVYzsq8kI7139ZVM-GQdS14nSCW0ozuRZaXrct6C4EzguJ-8Jgwghr5gCyR4j2-pvqXDuwHBiQYrmJpauC4ZFFRWoH07fHw6WC-2HFukiUg/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+054+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpb_5kGzi12iKE05nkq2_LgcZ6a867uZ3VrVYzsq8kI7139ZVM-GQdS14nSCW0ozuRZaXrct6C4EzguJ-8Jgwghr5gCyR4j2-pvqXDuwHBiQYrmJpauC4ZFFRWoH07fHw6WC-2HFukiUg/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+054+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517310017965493730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >South Oxford St. bet. Fulton St. & Atlantic Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7fQ36TCq5OVcjmhXsySAXGgo1rZUYWdBVpu-HK4TUu4QQRhf430vnb6iCm1dWYk5YYGMZaVc5VGDO-1tS7ruTb-jk4cAFFsO3O5I5V0B7jELVwAD5ngrG1FEdfCYxz6S9zDdeMFFIYo/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+064+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik7fQ36TCq5OVcjmhXsySAXGgo1rZUYWdBVpu-HK4TUu4QQRhf430vnb6iCm1dWYk5YYGMZaVc5VGDO-1tS7ruTb-jk4cAFFsO3O5I5V0B7jELVwAD5ngrG1FEdfCYxz6S9zDdeMFFIYo/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+064+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517310529864092754" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Cumberland St. bet. Lafayette Ave. and Greene Ave.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtSID78CtW6R2jORsAn7IqUQaFFILVYTjcmzw6efxIZ4hA46vmH86XpMfX8G9etz0HdLMIX9tc76orUPd0hDyxsZNL13VzF_hIdro12YgYYIrDyp0RS72tGjPMBRL3WIKOPyzpA6rVkg/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+065+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAtSID78CtW6R2jORsAn7IqUQaFFILVYTjcmzw6efxIZ4hA46vmH86XpMfX8G9etz0HdLMIX9tc76orUPd0hDyxsZNL13VzF_hIdro12YgYYIrDyp0RS72tGjPMBRL3WIKOPyzpA6rVkg/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+065+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517311133926202402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Cumberland St. bet. Lafayette Ave. and Greene Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXN7WBrgelNrNKzI0KIgoBK-NFmLjKEx_ZWPaUB-mKZLVOT73MwynoDRSSMj4ZO4JHrcNcACyOZ2UgZkxFxRdhexqfugG6BHgA9umBCil-MUgOROqUnhE6QTz-2r6H_RsowAQUOIZRqxs/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+073+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXN7WBrgelNrNKzI0KIgoBK-NFmLjKEx_ZWPaUB-mKZLVOT73MwynoDRSSMj4ZO4JHrcNcACyOZ2UgZkxFxRdhexqfugG6BHgA9umBCil-MUgOROqUnhE6QTz-2r6H_RsowAQUOIZRqxs/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+073+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517311408243566690" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Adelphi St. bet. Lafayette Ave. & Greene Ave.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9kCE2LEh-TUdX_dwdS4zgQlwO22PeTWbw93k9yj7Na-IfzzDGRuKMRU4DsBXBkxhOpTHxnL-F3mNQdCu22WryHMrTRTfSQBIkhyHMHtiUsSHW_cbASbK5DooIEtyNfvVKUwGPKWKbe4/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+075+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq9kCE2LEh-TUdX_dwdS4zgQlwO22PeTWbw93k9yj7Na-IfzzDGRuKMRU4DsBXBkxhOpTHxnL-F3mNQdCu22WryHMrTRTfSQBIkhyHMHtiUsSHW_cbASbK5DooIEtyNfvVKUwGPKWKbe4/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+075+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517311816229461698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Lafayette Ave. bet. Adelphi St. & Clermont Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And to end for tonight . . .</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRgZ1fcx44MM1aJqXSZgMJxdQAobgOZmKvB-i9NWQEaihudtyu2jae_zup7khfezEiulJ3yc3cfMgiTo3vFTj3tkt3CEir-5DO-NrSlcQ9onFUUc9uN0kk_o2Pe-YANjTEe1qQzGvujwQ/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+079+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRgZ1fcx44MM1aJqXSZgMJxdQAobgOZmKvB-i9NWQEaihudtyu2jae_zup7khfezEiulJ3yc3cfMgiTo3vFTj3tkt3CEir-5DO-NrSlcQ9onFUUc9uN0kk_o2Pe-YANjTEe1qQzGvujwQ/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+079+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517313625250739362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clermont Ave. bet. De Kalb Ave. & Willoughby Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4du557ifJCBjhg2Aw5QKte7rC8AlLoVInpBvRTk8x6bE_jmeL1BXfdSO-RMZ4qDmSAiJPqn4oerNXaiHjkc9z1Rdv_FjDD5gEfnhthXK9ozQIF4GYxksSDMfNi9tBvbRxrxXnG-7h2o/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+080+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4du557ifJCBjhg2Aw5QKte7rC8AlLoVInpBvRTk8x6bE_jmeL1BXfdSO-RMZ4qDmSAiJPqn4oerNXaiHjkc9z1Rdv_FjDD5gEfnhthXK9ozQIF4GYxksSDMfNi9tBvbRxrxXnG-7h2o/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+080+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517314576891887138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clermont Ave. bet. De Kalb Ave. & Willoughby Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTEsBLXPT7zw1oDrARYRsu2Haqc06oEGlLZQbfACjDDQA4-WK7bDLQjNLC4FUNMnwCmOGvVfAXsA_Bqvsgo-RGL7m-kpJUtfvRiFOiECmhxXicZBImH2NHFjSZ_3jYfrKvhMWmbZ6N1A/s1600/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+083+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvTEsBLXPT7zw1oDrARYRsu2Haqc06oEGlLZQbfACjDDQA4-WK7bDLQjNLC4FUNMnwCmOGvVfAXsA_Bqvsgo-RGL7m-kpJUtfvRiFOiECmhxXicZBImH2NHFjSZ_3jYfrKvhMWmbZ6N1A/s400/5-22-10+Sat+Walk+083+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5517314823146885602" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Willoughby Ave. bet. Clermont Ave. & Vanderbilt Ave.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And to all a good night!</span><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7249095140777034066.post-14201510140179069982010-09-05T21:51:00.022-04:002010-09-05T23:22:50.630-04:00On to Clinton Hill<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:85%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I think when last I left these posts, I was on my way from Bed-Stuy into Clinton Hill. Real time and walk time are usually so far apart that if it weren't for my razor sharp memory along with the audio files attached to my photos, I wouldn't know where I was.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The cute little house below is a block away from the final photos in the last post. Close one eye and it looks almost like a miniature Bates Motel house.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuijCMHRhrUS47cuA1hXK2OdMYJUo6L8laJFpA57OqfP-6wbz6dLAtoJSbE157vdtrblNbpzgI6gbjnkFNwo0kQpKWxoRLD2yAybaS8xHAjRK5qxrSg4ssduCWfFGGBGXP4J4iddZ2eA/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+059+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzuijCMHRhrUS47cuA1hXK2OdMYJUo6L8laJFpA57OqfP-6wbz6dLAtoJSbE157vdtrblNbpzgI6gbjnkFNwo0kQpKWxoRLD2yAybaS8xHAjRK5qxrSg4ssduCWfFGGBGXP4J4iddZ2eA/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+059+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513614635756148530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Cambridge Place near corner of Gates Ave.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">And a block away from Cambridge Place, at St. James Place, a block party was getting into full swing.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcda0dcNX79StnfLykwsYZwckN1rRpCuCyyv_PkXLB6k7chWMaWnek2sMILJAOYoxo0V4Y43VG1dZaYLpR-tTtChUkV3Myj_-qmTd51msl_91D-3677rlXnjem4YLt3m8tu0UgISCraQQ/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+061+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcda0dcNX79StnfLykwsYZwckN1rRpCuCyyv_PkXLB6k7chWMaWnek2sMILJAOYoxo0V4Y43VG1dZaYLpR-tTtChUkV3Myj_-qmTd51msl_91D-3677rlXnjem4YLt3m8tu0UgISCraQQ/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+061+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513615486850174098" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Gates Avenue and St. James Place</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4jjRlzZecEukQUq0XNlqZILD7RoUcobPHX64zP95hMXnnnADG7_6ao9p2sjb6zPftTLyqkCIQavsrLViwRGs-iEbzpFrG9x3jJESXuBke4HrdHdS0pKZrLLv1eIwEvIn4ZMwxW7WFFs/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+062+rew+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL4jjRlzZecEukQUq0XNlqZILD7RoUcobPHX64zP95hMXnnnADG7_6ao9p2sjb6zPftTLyqkCIQavsrLViwRGs-iEbzpFrG9x3jJESXuBke4HrdHdS0pKZrLLv1eIwEvIn4ZMwxW7WFFs/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+062+rew+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513615762105766658" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Gates Ave. and St. James Place</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">With the sudden beautiful weather that weekend, that Saturday was the day for block parties, outdoor gate sales, yard sales, whatever. A block from St. James Place is Washington Ave., rightly noted for its brownstones and other remnants of the Gilded Age.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">There are two large churches in that area and one of them, the Brown Memorial Church, was having its own church street sale that day.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvsgI4PySSvVkKUf4tBuYj2DK17XigjAUUpC7nRlcUZrJBm6My8CCtWq0_o2QfwRoLB1Cf4JiOom7HirDQMbqijAyncnwuR4rZjmk03o9a_AW4QimaZet0vSQXA9yzl5RVgUSmm8-4Jc/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+064+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglvsgI4PySSvVkKUf4tBuYj2DK17XigjAUUpC7nRlcUZrJBm6My8CCtWq0_o2QfwRoLB1Cf4JiOom7HirDQMbqijAyncnwuR4rZjmk03o9a_AW4QimaZet0vSQXA9yzl5RVgUSmm8-4Jc/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+064+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513617075611009698" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Brown Memorial Church, Gates and Washington Aves.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV59W9poZbIREg_3L6Yugr1MGdHxEPzYaxwv1taWMLK3ffTQ_mTC34nhoeqnO8U8krhyphenhyphenL_aCr1BfjOycJrZVjjPQdeOJdz93OUQK7sDDv8by2MuS26AJUZTvthwkzkQ8nFeQ70w21g8E/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+066+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV59W9poZbIREg_3L6Yugr1MGdHxEPzYaxwv1taWMLK3ffTQ_mTC34nhoeqnO8U8krhyphenhyphenL_aCr1BfjOycJrZVjjPQdeOJdz93OUQK7sDDv8by2MuS26AJUZTvthwkzkQ8nFeQ70w21g8E/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+066+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513618433238568338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Brown Memorial Church, Gates and Washington Aves.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ36e4ykD60rzpKh-2dfkMSe2YRBPFd8ouUVRqhmSLjbjip-4dbij4wSlBm2Acs-RV29Biai1LZ6FdCSQ9xPNnPlQJPF5STELYn-ZeQ_Zq-lKl5f45uj9-srLpu0QvTMfoDRgoEIuSdD0/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+067+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ36e4ykD60rzpKh-2dfkMSe2YRBPFd8ouUVRqhmSLjbjip-4dbij4wSlBm2Acs-RV29Biai1LZ6FdCSQ9xPNnPlQJPF5STELYn-ZeQ_Zq-lKl5f45uj9-srLpu0QvTMfoDRgoEIuSdD0/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+067+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513618664472425154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Brown Memorial Church, Gates and Washington Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I was going to say that Clinton Ave. was a block away but I generally forget that Waverly Ave. lies between them. It's not a prominent street and I for one tend to forget it's there until I cross it. So, two blocks farther on is Clinton Ave., the street that gives the neighborhood its name.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This young man was sitting alongside the sidewalk on Clinton Avenue between Greene and Gates Aves. giving an impromptu recital. I think he and his girlfriend were setting up another small yard sale. I asked to take his picture, which he politely allowed me to do. I explained to both that I had this blog and might want to add the photo to the blog. But I warned them that for me, keeping up with the postings was difficult and maybe I wouldn't get to it right away. Well, here it is. Only a month later. That's nothing when I think of all the walks from last summer that I never covered here at all!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLy2z364_R4HGwaKXDGinmvFMoabexzS9Bfn4z_vai21Pi9iqAoD93AoLcyfaDDAvqJ6BLrn3xdfSXvzWSt5GgxXKcp4S5VvzurX5KJVKE-Z-mqTb-6a5XksGmgod7KgZU8ybmyjZ95w/s1600/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+072+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOLy2z364_R4HGwaKXDGinmvFMoabexzS9Bfn4z_vai21Pi9iqAoD93AoLcyfaDDAvqJ6BLrn3xdfSXvzWSt5GgxXKcp4S5VvzurX5KJVKE-Z-mqTb-6a5XksGmgod7KgZU8ybmyjZ95w/s400/7-31-10+Sat+Bay+Ridge+trek+072+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513620839513558290" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Washington Ave. between Gates and Greene Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">This photo points up a great thing about the Clinton Hill neighborhood, it's a great place for casual strolling. To me, it has always seemed to be to be a very neighborly sort of place; a kind of tip-your-hat, stop-and-chat nabe. Technically it ends in another block at Vanderbilt Ave. where Fort Greene begins, but in reality the two neighborhoods blend into each other seamlessly.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Speaking of Vanderbilt Ave., I want to throw in a couple of shots here from an earlier walk. Actually, it wasn't a walk at all, it was from two mid-week forays to the library after work by bus; mid-May and mid-June, the last a quiet summer evening, just two days past Midsummer Eve, my favorite time of the year.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDOoHWijZnUYmc0WpBTkpd4v_XvPpc9A8tyeSz_knObMN_jF_o03YGc2W0nuja7-XXaPyKEiuaVzf0uO0nYKYdBMnhS-v32nzNMC1N4Xl-JH1a7kj9qCbk2NvkebiQnSIFel9__6f3wbo/s1600/5-25-10+St+V+and+Library+038+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDOoHWijZnUYmc0WpBTkpd4v_XvPpc9A8tyeSz_knObMN_jF_o03YGc2W0nuja7-XXaPyKEiuaVzf0uO0nYKYdBMnhS-v32nzNMC1N4Xl-JH1a7kj9qCbk2NvkebiQnSIFel9__6f3wbo/s400/5-25-10+St+V+and+Library+038+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513626155835504610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Vanderbilt and Park Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Whenever I take the bus to the library (either for lack of time or bad weather), I transfer to the B69 right across the street from these houses, so I've had plenty of time to enjoy them in all weather at different times of the year. But mid-Summer for me is the most magical time.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PSDmvfQ-zNVtWxgoTb6b9DOuX1cgljm3DYJmnSho2_UwwOHd0pho72eWFi34ij5yG2LoXbQektYRjGWlHZqwgykjD-7AvPl5yaFvGPgJCgGQxYL5w15ojCe6Lnji7mQZWh34YWD7-jM/s1600/6-23-10+various+009+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PSDmvfQ-zNVtWxgoTb6b9DOuX1cgljm3DYJmnSho2_UwwOHd0pho72eWFi34ij5yG2LoXbQektYRjGWlHZqwgykjD-7AvPl5yaFvGPgJCgGQxYL5w15ojCe6Lnji7mQZWh34YWD7-jM/s400/6-23-10+various+009+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513626759415481394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Vanderbilt and Park Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">According to the nyc.gov map I use, the houses date from between 1840 and 1850. To me they are three little gems, yet they are right on the edge of what was the industrial section of that part of Brooklyn, and only a block away from the Navy Yard, so probably when they were built they were just three unassuming laborers houses looked down on by the gents further up in Clinton Hill.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ppPQy7ffzblbkPoGx-t0n8Wb-RtEx8MEDyo6bfYnmN1cVihrQtoIXlrakwFkVIi3LtFWm4rvOMzHQN1yp9ZKb3IO3YRzdtUNbulILbYflxi_6CMNK83SW4EdjvNOv64XbaUVUmUz2Zo/s1600/6-23-10+various+011+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ppPQy7ffzblbkPoGx-t0n8Wb-RtEx8MEDyo6bfYnmN1cVihrQtoIXlrakwFkVIi3LtFWm4rvOMzHQN1yp9ZKb3IO3YRzdtUNbulILbYflxi_6CMNK83SW4EdjvNOv64XbaUVUmUz2Zo/s400/6-23-10+various+011+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513627117992266706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Vanderbilt and Park Aves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I should say "two" little gems since two of them have been restored but the corner one is still pretty much of a shack.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now before I end for tonight (since it's getting pretty late), I want to add that other prominent church I spoke of earlier. It is an enormous church on Clinton Ave. between Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave., St. Luke & St. Matthew.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Since I cut up through Clinton Hill and Fort Greene whenever I walk to the library, these buildings have become like old friends I use to mark my progress.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fHWuxpf7jB2zlVj4pw4WceT5pF_3kBc6YsmCXxHQKm4UmRQjMalrZlF3O6r9l5kI4XBfP6z6Ry2VXsoeyRN7DhjVtgWoVrTIYtbWkYmteK5n7XQrk0wT025jPrjrZgnLEARv9WmPyZY/s1600/8-19-10+various+048+res+adj..jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4fHWuxpf7jB2zlVj4pw4WceT5pF_3kBc6YsmCXxHQKm4UmRQjMalrZlF3O6r9l5kI4XBfP6z6Ry2VXsoeyRN7DhjVtgWoVrTIYtbWkYmteK5n7XQrk0wT025jPrjrZgnLEARv9WmPyZY/s400/8-19-10+various+048+res+adj..jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513631687517953410" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Clinton Ave. between Fulton St. and Atlantic Ave.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Next time . . . on to Bay Ridge . . . or at least South Brooklyn.</span><br /><br /></span>Brooklyn Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02687767461402987247noreply@blogger.com0