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This sign is one of about two dozen posted outside the Jonathan Williams Daycare Center in Williamsburg protesting the mayor's recent proposal to shut down this and hundreds of other city-run daycare and after-school programs.

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Honoring the former legislator and judge with a little stele strangely hidden from public view; I had to enter through a gate at the far side of the square and tromp across the unmowed grass to take a look at it.

This playground's Old Testament name is presumably a reference to the large Hasidic Jewish population here in South Williamsburg; note the Sukkot balconies on the building to the left.

A popular type of sidewalk memorial

of this baby. The beehive in the tympanum above the door symbolizes industry and thrift, and is a motif often found on older banks in the city. The most notable feature of this building (in my opinion, anyway) is its seriously squiggled column and wall sections (closer view here), which predate Keith Haring's work by more than a century.

To quote from an earlier post:

The world's longest suspension bridge from 1903 to 1924, the Williamsburg Bridge has a very unusual design: as you can see in this photo, only the center span (the section of the bridge between the two towers) is suspended from the cables.

Hey, they're carpenters, not graphic designers.

Another sidewalk portrait by Paul Richard

The former Williamsburgh Trust Company building is now the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church in Exile.