Founded by homeless canners, Sure We Can is a homeless-friendly beverage container redemption center that seeks to eliminate the unnecessary hardships and demeaning conditions that canners face elsewhere. As the door suggests, there is also a garden on site; it utilizes many repurposed materials recovered from people's garbage.
This subway-themed East Williamsburg playground claims that a perplexing array of trains stop here: the L, F, A, C, and 6. (While the L is the closest subway line to this spot, the 6 does not even enter Brooklyn.) Perhaps the playground was designed by Laurentius Farnsworth Aeolian Casimir the Sixth?
This micro-library has changed location (and name) since we last saw it.
Complete with running water, this grotto at Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii in East Williamsburg is a smaller (though still quite impressive) one of these. A nearby plaque reads: "This shrine has been erected by the faithful in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes that she may protect the boys in the armed forces — May 30, 1943".
Regardless of your feelings about the mayor's proposed soda ban, it's probably wise to ignore any advice on the subject given by a soda distribution truck.
This property was donated by Sarah Ann Wyckoff in 1868 under the condition that no building ever be constructed here. Technically a park, it was paved over in the 1930s (with the approval of a Wyckoff descendant) after it was deemed too difficult to maintain as a green space. What a lovely tribute to the family!
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Another good take on the MTA's central doctrine of paranoia
this would have been the portal of the day.
