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The perils of the sea

July 1st, 2012



The sailors' half of the Carroll Park WWI memorial

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Flortal of the day

July 1st, 2012


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Back at 108

July 1st, 2012



Here's a closer look at this house-mosaic.

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Parked a few doors down

July 1st, 2012



This has to be the artist's car.

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Snow Shoes

July 1st, 2012



On display outside 75 and 77 State Street in Brooklyn is a collection of punnily named footwear-based flower planters made from discarded objects. (Others include a rollerblade with a piece of wood: "Skate Board"; a sneaker with a small adding machine printer: "Foot Print"; and a pair of boots with a laptop: "Re-boot".) They're the work of Nat Hendricks, the buildings' owner. Nat told me that, much to his dismay, some Type A New Yorkers keep coming by and tying all the shoelaces.

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And there’s Nat

July 1st, 2012



He's talking with Sherry the human and Saturday the dog, having just fetched that water and Coke for me. His block was voted the greenest commercial block in Brooklyn in 2007 and 2010, and is a semifinalist in the 2012 competition; you can see why (and you can also see the shoe planters on the doors and walls).

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A monumental addition

July 1st, 2012



to our collection of sidewalk vents

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Euphoria; Is you for me

July 1st, 2012



ESPO's Love Letter to Brooklyn

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FEAR LESS

July 1st, 2012



Part of this multi-gate message (and not related to the artwork in the previous photo, as far as I know)

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Transportation Building

July 1st, 2012



This now mostly vacant building was, until 2006, the headquarters of the Transit Authority. It was here, beneath street level, that the mysterious money trains would drop off the cash they had collected from token booths throughout the subway system.




This map, mounted on the side of the Transportation Building, lists every transportation worker who served in the war, with stars showing the locations where 24 of them died.

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The building in the center, behind the giant blue thingies, is currently owned by NYU-Poly (and known as the Wunsch Building), but it once housed what is now the oldest continuing black congregation in Brooklyn, and was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

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Portals of the day

July 1st, 2012



Leading to the same house, the doors are labeled "Foul Weather" and "Fair Weather".

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Mezuzahprint

July 1st, 2012



Unlike some of its longer-lasting comrades, this mezuzah looks to have survived only one or two new coats of paint before being removed. I used to live in an apartment with a rounded, elongated bump on the doorpost — a mezuzah buried under about a dozen tenants' worth of repaintings.

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I like to imagine her serving as a coat rack the rest of the year.