Look closely.

This sign memorializes Scrabble's inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts, who worked on the game at a nearby church.

This is the first one of these I've come across.

This vent faces an alley filled with garbage.

Does this prohibition come with any temporal restrictions?

Patron saint of the East River

One of many dual-language schools in the city, Khalil Gibran's focus on Arabic language and culture made it a lightning rod for criticism by legions of paranoid Islamophobes, who feared it had a secret, insidious Islamist agenda, when it opened in 2007. (Khalil Gibran, for whom the academy is named, was a Lebanese-American Christian.) The school has been plagued with many problems in the intervening years, and it's currently being transitioned from a middle school to a high school.

This building, hidden behind the overgrowth, is one of several deteriorating 19th-century residences lining the north side of Flushing Avenue. Known as Admiral's Row, these structures once housed naval officers at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. They've been abandoned since the 1970s, falling further and further into disrepair, to the dismay of preservationists. The city recently acquired ownership of the property from the National Guard, and plans to demolish all but two of the buildings, making way for a new supermarket and some other commercial and industrial spaces.

This might be the greatest business-name duo I've ever encountered.

This mural is a map of the neighborhood. The small black dots were added by members of the community to show where they live.

There was once a lot of candy-making going on in Brooklyn.

Beloved by many

JFK vs. Alexander Skene