East Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Bunny Hop

October 8, 2012 ·
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn 

Taken October 8, 2012.

This Week: Community Board 1 Combined Public Hearing & Board Meeting

That’s right folks: this upcoming Wednesday, October 10th this month’s Community Board 1 Meeting will come to pass. As always you have to sign in to speak by 6:15 p.m.

Community Board 1 Combined Public Hearing & Board Meeting
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 starting at 6:30 p.m.
Swinging Sixties Seniors Center
211 Ainslie Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211 

On a (somewhat) related note, I have received word the Swinging Sixties Seniors Center is slated for closure January 2013.

Yours truly would like to humbly recommend that the Polish National Home (AKA: The Warsaw) be pressed into service as the new venue for meetings of our local Community Board. Given some of the convocations of this body yours truly has attended in days past, having access to a refreshments of the alcoholic variety would (in my humble opinion, anyway) make these proceedings much more provocative.

The Word On The Street: City Kitty

Taken September 28, 2012.

East Williamsburg Street Art Du Jour: You Go Girl!

September 30, 2012 ·
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Street Art 

Taken September 28, 2012.

New York Shitty Day Starter: The Word On The Street

From Grattan Street.

East Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Harrison Place

September 24, 2012 ·
Filed under: 11206, East Williamsburg, East Williamsburg Brooklyn, Street Art 

Taken September 20, 2012.

The Word On The Street: A Meserole Street Proclamation

Taken September 20, 2012.

East Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: Meserole Street

Taken September 20, 2012.

New York Shitty Day Ender: Great Moments In North Brooklyn Abjectecture

(Or: Frank Lloyd Wrong)

Arizona needs its own architecture… Arizona’s long, low, sweeping lines, uptilting planes. Surface patterned after such abstraction in line and color as find “realism” in the patterns of the rattlesnake, the Gila monster, the chameleon, and the saguarocholla or staghorn – or is it the other way around—are inspiration enough. — Frank Lloyd Wright.

Apparently north Brooklyn, despite the decided lack of rattlesnakes, gila monsters or long, low sweeping lines is also deserving of such treatment. At least this is what this sign intimates. Behold 865 Grand Street for yourselves!

Here’s a view looking eastward.

Here’s a front view.

Here’s a view looking west. On a flight of fancy I looked up this edifice on the Department of Buildings web site. I found this complaint particularly interesting.

If anyone from the Department of Buildings is reading this, I can assure you they were working today!

Or perhaps this chap was simply enjoying the view?

In any case, I found the steel girders required to hold this hunchback (Grand Street’s second such one) together rather disquieting. I know what you’re asking yourselves, gentle readers:

How can this possibly be legal?

Very simple: when the (ostensible) contextual zoning in Greenpoint was approved (in response to turds like 308 Eckford Street), certain thoroughfares— Grand Street being one of them— were, in fact, “upzoned”.

Watch this clip and learn for yourselves.

The Word On The Street, Part III: Maujer Street Division

Taken September 20, 2012.

  • NYS Flickr Pool

    christmas tree oddly placedDissociationMalevolent and asking for donations20241031_095113Hudson Yards  EDGELooking east-Northern view.
  • Ads