Much less adorable! For what it's worth, a guy sitting on his stoop nearby told me the church started building and then ran out of money, and was left with this bunker-like structure. It looks even weirder from the other side.
Brooklyn's Ryder Avenue runs on a diagonal between McDonald Avenue and Ocean Parkway. It ceases to exist for a block and then picks back up at East 7th Street, but with a slightly different name: Roder Avenue. Weird! Check out this map to see what I'm talking about. It seems that Roder was originally Ryder, and acquired its current name sometime in the 1920s.
Only in the world of kosher Chinese food could someone write a restaurant review like this one for Mr. Nosh: "the best chinese since shmulka bernstein".
This Flemish Renaissance Revival building at 1987 (not 1984 as indicated in the linked article) Flatbush Avenue opened in 1926 as a branch of the Midwood Trust Company.
I was trying to take a picture of a sign on the door in the background when this guy suddenly strode into frame.
This mural is one of two (here's the other; here are photos from their creation) adorning the walls of the old Ryder Station post office. The building is now a delivery station used by mail carriers; the retail operations were split off and relocated a few blocks away.
A weather-beaten old '79 Camaro — looks like it might be from 1879.
I'm walking every street in New York City.
This is the counterpoint to my walk across the US. Instead of seeing a million places for just a minute each, I'm going to spend a million minutes exploring just one place. By the time I finish walking every block of every street in all five boroughs, I'll have traveled more than 8,000 miles on foot — all within a single city. Details!
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~9,954 miles walked
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