Several storm-damaged cars are still sitting out on the streets of Canarsie, waiting to be hauled away at some point, I suppose. Check out the rear and the interior of this rusty old geezer.

Gun Slinger

From down in Canarsie all the way up to Harlem

as seen from the Canarsie side of Fresh Creek

Post-Sandy house inspections on Flatlands 9th Street. A nearby resident told me that he and his neighbors all had to toss out everything that had been on the ground floor of their homes. Many of them were embarrassed by the hideous old furniture they had never gotten rid of, so, in order to keep people from seeing it, they would wait until they spotted the garbage truck coming before putting it out on the curb.

Young Israel of Canarsie ain't lookin' so young anymore. The same can be said about most of Canarsie's fading Jewish population.

Here we are on the Canarsie side of the "nature preserve" we saw from Starrett City yesterday.

In addition to the plain numbers, Brooklyn has several other sets of numbered streets, each with its own unique prefix. Here we are at Flatlands 1st Street in Canarsie (the highest numbered street in this series is Flatlands 10th). The other prefixes in use are North, South, East, West, Bay, Brighton, Paerdegat, and Plumb.

UPDATE: Add one more prefix to the list: Banner!

1) It's tough to see in the photo, even up close, but the fifth word on the third line looks like it used to be "Authorised". Someone apparently realized that's not the common American spelling and corrected it to read "Authorixed".

2) The "Weekly Programme" (continuing with the British-influenced spellings) lists "Total Prayer Onslaught" on the schedule for Thursday nights. Until I published this post, the words "Total", "Prayer", and "Onslaught" did not exist consecutively anywhere on the internet, at least not as far as Google could tell.

Here we have another bank turned church. The alley that runs around the back of the building still sports a sign that reads: "Entrance to Drive-In Bank".