Greenpoint
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Culture on the Cheap
Greenpoint Photo Du Jour: Glitch
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
From Manhattan Avenue.
Miss Heather
Dung Of The Day: Special Bloomblight Edition
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Bum Shit, Dung of the Day, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Other Shit
You can always leave it to 32 India Street to keep things on our gold coast, um, interesting.
Miss Heather
Greenpoint Street Art Du Jour: Exophytic
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
From India Street.
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Inbox: Fire At 832 Manhattan Avenue?
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
Peter (who sent me the above photos) writes:
hello miss heather-
I was having coffee this morning and happened to notice an enormous cloud of blackish smoke pass by my window on Leonard Street. It appeared to be a pretty serious fire on Manhattan Ave near Calyer that had both the entire neighborhood and what seemed like the entire NYC fire department on the scene. Attached are some iphone pictures of what was going on. I emailed them from my phone so some might be sideways. My apologies.
We happened to be home today, and saw the smoke from the fire right as we were leaving the newly re-opened 3-Decker Restaurant after breakfast. (BTW, I can’t really make out anything different about the diner…can you?)We got there right after fire trucks arrived, and witnessed a somewhat dramatic rescue of 2 hipsters climbing down the truck ladder from their 3rd story window.
We initially thought that the fire was mainly on the roof, from that crappy addition on top of the building, but it appeared that the firemen were concentrating on the empty 2nd floor apartment, which looked like it was in the midst of a renovation.
It looked like total apartment destruction for those unhappy 3rd floor residents. We hope they had renter’s insurance. Their cat almost jumped out of the 3rd floor window, but was barely stopped by a fireman and a window screen. Sad situation. Seems like that landlord is the type of guy to do a shoddy renovation, so probably an electrical fire?
Williamsburg Video Du Jour: Après Moi le Deluge
As yours truly inexorably creeps closer to middle age, I have achieved a certain level of acceptance about life. For example:
- I have grown to accept I will never be a millionaire. Money always has been and always will be a concern for me.
- I will never win the Nobel Prize. Not that I have really tried, mind you. I am, by my own admission a colossal UNDERachiever.
- I have pretty much (by)passed all the milestones people hold near and dear. All I have left to do is die— which brings me to the video you just watched.
I would like to take a moment to applaud the New York City Parks Department for awakening me from my existentialist funk by reminding me that I am in no hurry whatsoever to accomplish point #3. In fact, I have never felt so alive as I did this afternoon while patronizing this public lavatory at Jamie Campiz Playground and praying to god* I would not be electrocuted.
Sincerely grateful,
Miss Heather
*Given I am an agnostic this is truly noteworthy.
Southside Street Seating Du Jour: Tete a Tete
This is not “street seating” per se but it merits attention nonetheless.
For starters, this al fresco arrangement has a rather nice view of the Williamsburg Bridge.
Secondly, it’s easily accessible via the collapsed (but nicely painted) construction fence!
Miss Heather
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Bloomblight With Benefits
Filed under: 11222, Bloomblight, Crazy Cat Lady, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic
When I saw this nondo in my photo pool I recognized it immediately: it graces (?) the corner of Herbert and North Henry Street. What I didn’t know is this hulking eyesore— despite its decrepit condition— has a resident. So it goes in the smash-jaw world of north Brooklyn real estate.
His name is Monkey and he wants it to be known he is not a stray. Special thanks goes out to Lisacat for sharing this important news with us.
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Street Seating Du Jour: Naugahyde With Benefits
Filed under: 11211, Bloomblight, Street Furniture, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
Okay, this specimen is not technically a street couch: I spied it through a peep hole in construction fence on Gerry Street. However, I felt the magnificent melange of material (including a broken figuring of the Virgin Mary) gracing said sofa merited a mention. Closing on a related note, I am pleased to announce there is a Flickr group dedicated to showcasing world-wide street seating. It is called Sofafree!! and it can be seen by clicking here.
Oh yeah, here’s my favorite of the lot. It hails from Vancouver.
Miss Heather
Presenting Skidmark Row
Filed under: 11211, Bloomblight, Bum Shit, Dung of the Day, Other Shit, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
As the delay in today’s postage probably indicates today I decided to table the blog a bit and go for a walk. I made a number of amazing discoveries (such as learning the mattress at North 4 and Berry Street has inhabitants). You will be delighted to know, dear readers, I plan to share each and every one of them with you. This post is dedicated to North 4 Street— or more specifically why it smells so damned bad. This mystery didn’t take me long to unravel. In fact, you could go so far to say all I had to do was follow my nose!
It would appear that the derelict property on the south side of the street has been pressed into service as a public lavatory.
If the amount of effluvia I found is any indication, it appears to be very popular.
I’m not too sure which end this came out of— but I bet whoever discharged this puddle of joy feels a lot better!
Welcome to Skidmark Row in the heart of the “new” Williamsburg!
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: Nature’s Revenge
My hat goes off to the peeps at Red Rose & Lavender (and Nature’s Revenge) for tickling yours truly pink with their ongoing and incredibly delightful re-purposing of this derelict construction site. Bravo!
Miss Heather
NYS Flickr Pool
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