New York Shitty Photo Du Jour: Be Authentic

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: 10012, Gentrification, Greenwich Village, Greenwich Village Manhattan

Sometimes words fail me. No worries, that’s what cameras are for!

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The Word On The Street, Part I: All Apologies

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, The Word On The Street

As spotted this evening on the premises of the Franklin Corner Store. A couple observations:

This is one very polite— or at least apologetic— thief.
Where did he/she get the post-it note and sharpie marker? Were these purloined as well or does he/she keep ’em handy for just these occasions? Anyone?

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From The New York Shitty Inbox: What Is This?

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Urban Artifact

Jilly Ballistic, who took the above photograph, writes (in an email entitled “That’s a new one”):

At the corner of Huron and Franklin.

There’s an explanation behind this. I assume.

Another tasty angle of this find.

I was so intrigued by this when I arrived back in Greenpoint (Yes, I do leave it— more about that later) I swung by and checked it out.

Yup. If I had to hazard a guess as to what this is, I’d go out on a limb (or would that be ledge?) “Branson” and say he’s a buddy of this guy.

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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part III: BK Pride

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: 11215, 11217, Brooklyn, Park Slope, Park Slope Brooklyn

Taken by greenelent.

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From The New York Shitty Photo Pool, Part II: Stripes

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: New York City

Taken by Denn-Ice.

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Spotted On Manhattan Avenue: Spider Man

June 9, 2013 ·
Filed under: 11222, Criminal Activity, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Hooliganism, Newtown Creek, Wow, WTF

If these images (which a lady named Lisa was kind enough to bring to my attention) are any indication, it was a lively evening in the Garden Spot last night. My tipster kicks the party off as follows:

So…as we’re leaving (a) party… I see fucking Spiderman scaling a building, out of costume, on Manhattan ave. SPIDEY, YOU’RE DRUNK, GO HOME!

We first see him climbing up the fire escape ladder and assume, OK, he made it, he’s home. Not so much…

There were, of course, extensive comments on what would be happening if he was not Caucasian…

Spidey proceeds to move behind the staircase and onto the ledge, AROUND THE AC UNIT – nice effing moves – and works his way to the next building

I moved to video, showing poor judgement as it was too dark, so I did not get pics of the rest. Spidey moved to the next building where we thought “no way, that window has child guards on it, he can’t get in there,” but we were wrong…he opened the window and climbed OVER the child guards, OVER THE CHILD GUARDS, through the window, where he was welcomed with cheers from a party. THIS WAS AWESOME! I should post the video just for the Stephanie and Jerry show commentary, but I won’t. But this shit was funny. Damn. Jerry, did anyone believe you when you got back? Here is our proof!

A few thoughts:

Given there have been a number of break-ins hereabouts wherein the thieves accessed the apartment(s) in question via the fire escape, this fellow is lucky no one called the police.
He’s doubly lucky he didn’t fall and seriously hurt himself. I’d say he was tempting fate— and subsequent notoriety courtesy of the New York Post— in a big, big way.
Greenpoint is becoming more and more like the East Village/Lower East Side every day. God help us.

UPDATE: It has been brought to my attention that this morning someone in a BMW drove off Manhattan Avenue, presumably via the Kayak Launch, and into Newtown Creek. Wow. Just wow. You can read Gothamist’s take on this bizarre turn of event by clicking here.

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