August: Lots of sod
September: Only one strip left
December: Lots of sod
I'm guessing this space has been taken over by Shannon Florist & Nursery, which sells sod and is located just up the block (that's its green sign at left).
FOR ALL OCCASIONS
WE RESTORE VERY-VERY OLD PICTURE
The sign above the door says "EST. 1923", but the studio's Facebook page just says it's been "operating for over 30 years."
Life is short, art is long, experience is difficult
The awning of Dikansky's Health World, Inc. offers a paraphrased version of Hippocrates's first aphorism.
From a 2012 Brooklyn Daily article:
A Catholic martyr’s death came to life in the streets of Bensonhurst during the weekend of Sept. 29.You can see photos from the most recent procession here.
One hundred fifty members of the Societa Santa Fortunata di New York acted out the horrific killing of Saint Fortunata and bore a casket containing her likeness around the neighborhood on Saturday and Sunday — a tradition that has crossed the Atlantic from the tiny town of Baucina in Palermo, Sicily . . .
Santa Fortunata was a Christian woman living in the Roman Empire during the persecuting rule of the Emperor Diocletian. In the year 303 AD, Fortunata refused a proposal from the emperor’s son because she didn’t want to convert, and so the prince first threw her to lions, shot her with arrows, and boiled her in hot pitch. But Fortunata held onto life until her spurned suitor finally stabbed her in the head. Her remains were brought to Baucina from the mainland in 1790 — where her body is still used in the procession today — and immigrants brought her rite to Brookyn in 1900.
P.S. 127 Remembers
All Our Heroes, Victims And
Families Of September 11, 2001.
We Dedicate This Garden To Them,
And To All Our Children Who Are
Our Hope For The Future.
This Jewish high school occupies the former Yeshivah of Bensonhurst.
Our Lady of Lourdes and St. Bernadette, at the Shrine Church of St. Bernadette
Dyker Heights is home to NYC's most famous Christmas lights. While there are individual houses in other parts of the city that rival the craziest ones here, there's no other neighborhood that can match the density of over-the-top displays — house after house after house — that you'll find in this section of Dyker Heights (photos). At peak hours in December, the most illuminated blocks are packed with people gawking at the lights; tourists come from around the world, and there are even $50-per-person guided bus tours. The house above belongs to Lucy and Angelo Spata, Dyker lights pioneers who have been putting on a Chrismastime spectacle for some three decades now.
At PS 176. You can see all the labyrinths we've come across so far here.
