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Pallets and paint

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BOOGER GUTZ

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Barberz #15

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Telephone Building

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You can find those words inscribed above quite a few doorways around the city. I believe the buildings thus labeled were constructed back in the golden days of the Bell System as central offices, housing switching equipment, operators, and the like. Many still seem to be functioning as telecommunication centers, but some have been adapted for other uses over the years. As you can probably tell, this particular Telephone Building — whose 1914 expansion you can read about in this contemporaneous account, under the "New Stagg Central Office" subheading — has been converted into apartments, complete with Sukkot balconies.

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Broad & Boerum

May 24th, 2012



Currently a watch and jewelry store, this was once the main branch of the Lincoln Savings Bank. Check out this wonderful recounting (just a little more than halfway down the page) of what it was like to work there around 1970.

Lincoln was originally founded as the German Savings Bank of Brooklyn in 1866, but changed its name to something more patriotic-sounding (page 54) in response to the growing anti-German sentiment in America around the time of World War I.




This mural was painted by students under the direction of a couple of artists from BRIC.

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Portal of the crate

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9/11 memorial #65

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Nelly’s Flowers

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Livening up the shadows of the Jamaica Line

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An engineering marvel

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The base of this column is cemented into the bucket! Here's a close-up.

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1932 Ford pickup

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This old-timer is starting to develop a following.

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This is what happens

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when you lay concrete in the fall. Here's a closer look.

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A well-waxed automobile

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Portal of the day

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Jimi makes his second appearance of the week.

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Visual echoes

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(including two old friends of ours)

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At least these guys are safer to walk beneath than the three-dimensional variety.