My posts will be intermittent for awhile as I recover from surgery, but I am feeling better. My father was just as much a photo buff as I turned out…
Brooklyn
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In April 2017, Mitch Waxman, a member of the Newtown Creek Alliance, conducted one of his Newtown Creek tours, his most comprehensive, which he called “Creek-a-Thon”. It was an all-day affair…
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EVERY so often I like to check in on my favorite buildings, one of which is the Renken Dairy offices at #584 Myrtle Avenue and Classon Avenue. The bottling plant…
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In November 2017, Thanksgiving to be exact, I embarked on one of my lengthiest forays, walking from Sunset Park to Maspeth. The family had informed me that the Thanksgiving stuff…
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EAST Flatbush and Flatlands comprise block upon block of neat, well-kept detached homes, with an occasional shopping strip and apartment building for contrast. Its southern flank, Mill Basin, was the…
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FOR today’s entry I was inspired by a series of photos cartoonist Danny Hellman recently shot on a stretch of Utica Avenue, one of Brooklyn’s lengthy north-south “NY Cities” series…
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THIS auto collision repair shop at #1552 McDonald Avenue near Avenue M in Midwood likely does not have a proprietor named Culver. Instead, it is found under the only elevated…
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IT’S been quite awhile…2005, to be exact… when I last extensively walked in Brownsville, East New York and that deliberately nonmaintained backwater known as The Hole (even Google Maps calls…
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I have always been a fan of the original formula pedestrian lampposts on expressways built in NYC during the 1950s. To me they are simplified versions of Bishop Crooks that…
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I found this confusing pairing of signage on the northbound leg of Hamilton Avenue at Henry Street a few years ago. Apparently the Department of Transportation must have heard from…
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PARKED outside #167 Concord Street in Brooklyn is owner Frank Didik’s car, a hybrid gasoline/electric powered vehicle called the Didik Long Ranger designed in the mid-1980s. It’s 96 inches long, 65 inches…
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A foray into what was formerly called “South Brooklyn” when it was actually the southern end of the City of Brooklyn before it absorbed the rest of Kings County and…