Greenpoint
Lorven Pharmacy
Culture on the Cheap
Urban Artifacts: Teddy Bear
Filed under: 11211, 11222, Greenpoint, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Greenpoint Magic, Urban Artifact, Williamsburg, Williamsburg Brooklyn
McGuinness Boulevard
Graham Avenue
Richardson Street
The Word On The Street: Manhattan Avenue
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, The Word On The Street
Taken June 13, 2012.
Urban Fur: Skinny
As spied by my camera supervising her “person” doing some gardening on Montrose Avenue. Her person (a very nice lady with a green thumb) put it to me this way:
She’s smarter than both of us.
And that Skinny is. She gets three hots and a cot and a garden to boot!
From The New York Shitty Photo Pool: Go Team!
Filed under: 10002, Lower East Side, Lower East Side Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, Stuff That Makes Miss Heather Happy
As Scoboco has so wonderfully documented, the New York Yankees have a fan in the way of this rather dapper dog on the Lower East Side. On the other side of the river, however, the Mets have a fan of the porcine persuasion. One whose charm (and affinity for baseball) even charmed the cuddly— if in a curmudgeonly kind of way— Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York!
Those of you who have not done so should read Kevin’s post about meeting this finely fettled fellow. You can do so by clicking here.
New York Shitty Day Starter: 373 Graham Avenue, Revisited
As is often the case the story behind a photograph is often as compelling— if not more so— than the image itself. This was certainly the case yesterday after I took this one. “Joe”, as he is known both in the neighborhood and online— saw fit to come out the front door and shout at me. He wanted me to stop taking photos of his establishment.
Given this very same fellow wanted to make my acquaintance not too long ago while playing “air guitar” with a mop to Van Halen (“Dance the Night Away”, I would have preferred “Unchained”) I was a mite bit surprised— but unshaken.
I informed “Joe” that I was perfectly within my rights to take photos of his establishment. Believe it or not, this reasonable (and legally nuanced) response seemed to make an impression on him. This is the only reason I can muster as to why it took him a few seconds to shout another inquiry at me:
What are you going to do with these photos?
Post them online
I replied and walked off. I was once told by a very wise man named Tim* that all a man (or woman) has is his (or her) word. And that I have just kept.
A few closing thoughts:
- The assorted detritus on the sidewalk (including a chair with a half-smoked cigar on it) falls under the jurisdiction of the Department of Consumer Affairs and possibly the Department of Transportation (as it involves obstructing our city’s sidewalks).
- The material obstructing the entrance to the apartments upstairs is blocking the primary means of egress. This is a violation of fire code provided (what I have heard is true) that someone is residing in any/all of the apartments upstairs. Which brings me to…
- This building, per the Department of Buildings Building Information System, does not have a Certificate of Occupancy, thus (theoretically**) no one should be residing here in the first place.
Nuance your 311 complaints accordingly, folks.
*There are many wise men named Tim.
**Note that I wrote “theoretically”.
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