FLATBUSH Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…
Flatbush Avenue
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Barren Island, at one point, was an actual island, but was landfilled to create what is now the airfield. In the 19th Century and early 20th, Barren Island was home…
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It all started when I got wind of an ancient painted ad revealed on the corner of 5th and Flatbush Avenue from a tip from Paul Lukas of ESPN and…
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Mobil ad, Flatbush Avenue near 8th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The word “mobile” comes from the Latin mobilis, movable and movere, to move. Mobil Oil is a descendant of…
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Over at NewYorkShitty, Miss Heather has posted a photo of the ugliest new building in New York City: It’s at Gates…
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On what turned out to be a cool, cloudy 4th of July, 2007 your webmaster invaded one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that seems to have been caught between two more highly-publicized…