Located at 770 Eastern Parkway, this building is the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. It is of such significance to the organization that Lubavitchers around the world — from Italy to Australia to Israel — have built replicas of it.
Continuing the proud tradition of presidential chicken, this establishment seems to have weathered the early criticism of its name change and was even featured in a Clipse music video (though its name was erased from the sign when the video aired on TV).
UPDATE: The only version of the video still available online is the one with the restaurant's name erased.
UPDATE: Obama Fried Chicken is a goner.
Honored by a 2010 legislative resolution in the State Senate, he has apparently been able to hold onto his church despite a parishioner fraudulently selling it to a developer.
but the seal at the top of the building, with its three sheaves of wheat that look like mushrooms, reminded me of something I'd seen before. I was a little confused by its presence here in New York, but then I reached the end of the block and found myself standing at Pennsylvania Avenue.
Built on the right-of-way of a former aqueduct (hence the name), this road has an exceedingly wide median. Here in Queens, just across the border from Brooklyn, there appears to be a park of some sort taking shape.
UPDATE: It's not a park; it's a bioretention facility with "the capacity to divert at least 200,000 gallons of stormwater that would otherwise flow into the combined sewer system–roughly 90% of the stormwater that accumulates within the drainage area during a moderate storm."
Linden Boulevard, which is interrupted several times in its journey across Brooklyn and Queens, comprises a handful of discontinuous roadway segments that vary from this mighty thoroughfare to the isolated little stub of pavement you see above.
The bottom of the crate has been removed, so it's actually a pretty decent stand-in for a hoop.
