Day 52

Do not try this at home

February 20th, 2012


Day 52

I beg to difer

February 20th, 2012


Day 52

Brain food

February 20th, 2012


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The slave trade

February 20th, 2012



Part of a much larger mural along Rogers Avenue. If you look at the mural in Street View, you can see that Google's automatic face-blurring software has blurred the faces of almost everyone honored in the mural!

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Temporarily out of service

February 20th, 2012



The cavity behind the sign currently contains three magazines and zero alarms.

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Portal of the day

February 20th, 2012


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Barberz #4

February 20th, 2012



Out of bizness, sadly

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St. Jerome’s R.C. Church

February 20th, 2012


Day 52

I feel like I’m being watched

February 20th, 2012



It's the NYPD SkyWatch!

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Look familiar?

February 20th, 2012



It's another FDNY communications dispatch office (here's a better comparison picture — look how similar they are!), or at least it was until 2008. Fittingly, the Russell D. Ramsey Memorial Triangle is catty-corner to this structure.

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I had never heard this before, and I can't find any confirmation of the claim, but I hope it's true! There's not much left of Ebbets Field — its former site is occupied by high-rise apartments.

Something else I learned from this informative wall: "Before its original 39 acres were designated for a botanic garden in 1897, the Garden's land was covered in trash, construction rubble, and ashes from its history as a city dump."

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Dr. Ronald E. McNair Playground

February 20th, 2012



As indicated, this innovative playground is located between Lexington and Third Avenues, between East 122nd and East 123rd Streets, in Manhattan. This sign, however, is located about nine miles away, near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway, in Brooklyn, at the entrance to Dr. Ronald E. McNair Park.

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Over the Franklin Avenue Shuttle tracks