
As Forgotten NY fans know, I wander the streets with a camera, seeking out bits of unusual infrastructure. I was snooping around Carroll Gardens and Gowanus recently when I spotted a curbside weathervane, mounted high on a curbside cylindrical pole, somewhat taller than the adjoining midblock lamppost, on #353 Court Street between Union Street and President.

I have to admit, after all these years I don’t know how to read a weathervane. Here the arrow is pointing west. Does that mean the wind is blowing from the east?
The pole is there on the oldest Street View image of the block in 2009. My theory is that it was originally a flagpole that someone stuck a weathervane on some time later.
Any area residents know what’s going on?
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6/3/25