At this point, it's an established fact that the Royal Kingbee's territory has expanded well beyond the borders of the Bronx in the last couple of years, largely onto the walls of Rite Aids in Manhattan and Brooklyn. (He also established an early outpost at an East Village hair salon at least as far back as May 2009.) Here we have even more evidence of his growing pharmaceutical empire.

This is the relatively unimpressive aftermath of Winter Storm Juno, the "blizzard that wasn't" (in the city, at least). The predictions of the storm's fury were so dire — The Onion's headline was "NYC Mayor: 'Reconcile Yourselves With Your God, For All Will Perish In The Tempest' " — that, for the first time ever, the subway system was shut down because of (anticipated) snow.

This portrait is part of a window-mounted canine art gallery in someone's first-floor Brighton Beach apartment.

According to the NY Times, this circa-1935 building was one of several apartment houses in Brighton Beach named after socialist leaders. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, eponym of Mother Jones magazine, was a "fiery union organizer" and a co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.

You can take a closer look here.

Banner is the most obscure of all the Brooklyn street prefixes. Before discovering it today, I would have bestowed that title upon Plumb: there are only three numbered Plumb roadways — Plumb 1st through 3rd Streets — comprising several blocks altogether. But the Banner prefix is even rarer. It exists only in the names of two short dead-end streets: Banner 3rd Road and Banner 3rd Terrace.

These trailers are parked outside the NYPD's mounted unit Troop E stable. Check out this Street View image of the stable building. The horses are apparently kept on the second floor. Note the (poop?) chute coming out of the second floor and emptying into a dumpster.

This HVACR academy at William E. Grady High School was dedicated on July 17, 2002, the 100th anniversary of Willis Carrier submitting his design for the first modern air-conditioning system, which was installed in a Brooklyn printing plant. According to the NY Daily News, the dedication ceremony here at the school featured a 400-pound ice sculpture of the inventor.

This is one of the many narrow pedestrian alleys (map) crisscrossing Brighton Beach's dying bungalow district, which has been heavily scarred by haphazard development over the past 15 years or so. (Note, for example, the skeleton of the multi-story building-to-be in the background at right. That project, which required the demolition of three houses, has been stalled since at least June 2012. And in the background at left, you can see a shoddily constructed plywood fence, part of which is toppling onto the walkway. That fence surrounds three lots acquired almost a decade ago by a developer who leveled the houses that stood there by 2009 and has left the land sitting vacant ever since.)

A Russian-Uzbek-Korean cafe. You can thank Joseph Stalin for this seemingly unlikely culinary combination: in 1937, he forcibly relocated some 170,000 ethnic Koreans from the Russian Far East to Soviet Central Asia.

Gary and Felix make these once-a-week sissies look pretty silly.

Shirtless and shoeless and doing some push-ups, Felix basks in the nippy January air after his swim.