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Fidelity Triangle

January 23rd, 2012



While the Parks Department claims this little triangle is "a tribute to those brave soldiers who fought and died in World War I", the park itself gives no indication of this, as far as I could tell. Instead, it seems to be dedicated to deceased members of the Knights of Columbus.

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Greenpoint oil spill

January 23rd, 2012



Greenpoint is the site of perhaps the largest oil spill in US history. Over the course of more than a century, somewhere between 17 and 30 million gallons of oil and petroleum products were leaked, spilled, and dumped into the soil and water by various refineries in the area. The descendants of those refining companies are now legally responsible for the cleanup effort, which consists primarily of pumping out contaminated groundwater, extracting the oil from it, and discharging the treated water into Newtown Creek. This photo shows the discharge point for water pumped and treated by ExxonMobil, and is also the location where a Coast Guard helicopter first observed the plume of oil flowing into Newtown Creek in 1978.

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Sons of Son

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Cherry Street?

January 23rd, 2012



Google thinks it's a street, and it looked like one for about half a block, before I reached this mess. But it connects through to a real street on the other side, and there were no signs marking it as private property, so, just to be safe, I "walked" it.

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Take notice, truckers!

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A modern tableau

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Creedence!

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is nobody else's business.

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Recycling yard

January 23rd, 2012



I can see why Reduce and Reuse come first in the Holy Trinity.

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Greg’s Munchie Machine

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Portal within a portal

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Scrap Metal

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Or Those Who Still Sleep

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Cornice, meet Siding

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Someone has an eye for design

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Oh, that Marshal

January 23rd, 2012



At it again!

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The litterbug

January 23rd, 2012



Perhaps the only extant animal with an odd number of legs

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The dream is dead

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Be the Dragon

January 23rd, 2012



You'd think the world's largest brewer could afford a proofreader. They even got their own website wrong! Speaking of their website, the banner at the top instructs you to "Drink the Dragon", which seems to promote some bizarre form of self-cannibalism when taken in conjunction with the message of this ad.

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Aha!

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Portal of the day

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Happy New Year!

January 23rd, 2012



Today was the first day of the Chinese New Year, and to welcome the Year of the Dragon, this business laid out an offering of foods traditionally thought to bring prosperity, health, and happiness.

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