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Here are a couple of puddleflection shots i took down in DUMBO two days before I left to head south for the holidays. GOD I miss NY! There's just not enough grime and grit anywhere else to satisfy.
Manhattan Bridge
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Shot this panoramic of Calvary Cemetery from Sunnyside Queens
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$4B Brooklyn Project Approved for Development [Multi-Housing News]
Gowanus Toxics Want Slope Real Estate & Vegan Cookies [Curbed]
Williamsburg Rumor: Galapagos Site to Become Condo? [Curbed]
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against the grain.
[Manhattan]
justiNYC has slightly elsewhere and unfortunately found himself unable to make it inside the Wooster Collective Art show at 11 Spring Street over the weekend. Nevertheless, these shots were taken last night of the outside during a brief excursion into Manhattan with buddy, M. Sayyid. Here's some of the leftover 'scraps' we saw.
Sayyid chillin
Closing time at 11 Spring. Sayyid and I just missed it.
DAMN!
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11 Spring Street has been a Wooster Art Collective open format show of the work from (at least) 45 internationally known street artists-with of course heavy representation from NYC. At the end of the show, the building is being converted into condos. Enjoy (while you can)!
Check out Wooster
Here are some videos:
11 Spring Street
Cheeky Signs Piece at 11 Spring St., New York
11 spring street, line walk (sunday afternoon)
11 Spring Street
11 Spring Street - Final Explosion of Street Art
Wooster on 11 Spring, just a quick walk through
Art House
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According to a draft plan (above) that the Streets Blog acquired, Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg is undergoing some major changes. As the Streets report
"the plan calls for the elimination of five motor vehicle parking spacesWe will have to wait for the Department of Transportation for an official press release for more information. The plan is expected to remove 5 parking spaces on North 7th Street in order to widen the sidewalk, making room for more bike racks. Great! So now, Williamsburg will have more room for weekend junk hustlers. Besides, how easy is it to park around that N7th/Bedford madhouse anyway? Fuggitaboutit! But, how many Wall Street kids ride bikes to work? Hmmm
on N. 7th Street at Bedford Avenue, alongside the subway station
stairwell on the southeast corner (see the corner at the bottom of the
diagram)."
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Whether or not its cold, this bear is bold.
[Manhattan]
at 11 Spring Street, Manhattan
beats semi-circle wandering.
[Union Pool Bar, out back on the patio (no drinks out there- "I won't
tell you again!")
Williamsburg at the BQE
...an artful Bushwick yielding.
Morgan Avenue
...well, silver balls anyway. Saw this christmas object on Court
Street, Downtown Brooklyn.
...or a stick up. Whichever you prefer.
Smith Street, South Brooklyn
Down off Union Street on the border of Red Hook, I stepped into a
coffee shop and got a load of this. Quite a nice find on a rainy day.
[Red Hook-ish]
Every now and again, justiNYC likes to show you how to hack some NYC shit. A little while back, you were shown how to hack a NYC electric bill and because you loved it soooo much, here's another hack, Jack!
If you want to keep creepers from crawling through the big ass hole in your fence, the best way is to not have a hole in your fence.
Nevertheless, if your fence is holey, use one of the racks from your refrigerator, like this genius did on Flushing Avenue. The
refrigo-hack should do the trick- and you can get a snack while you're at it (if the damn bandit didn't already get away with your grub).
[Bushwick]
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This building on Kingsland Avenue once sat right where the BQE runs through Brooklyn at Kingsland Ave- pretty much in the exact locationwhere one can purchase a happy meal (if one were so inclined). A close friend of justiNYC's- Carl (age 78) once bought this buildingfor 15 cents per square foot, waaay before Sex and the City officially deemed Brooklyn as a cool place to live- [yes I blame Sex-City for many of the housing ills in Bk]. He acquired it by way of quick claim deed [example] and in those days, lived with his family and ran the factory. Nevertheless, when Robert Moses began to rule urban planning throughout the
boroughs, the Brooklyn Queens Expressway was built right through the middle of where this old bugger sat, so it was dismantled and moved up Kingsland Avenue a few blocks.
This area isn't jam packed with yuppies and the so called hipsters yet, in part because its to damn far from any train- hence, Greenwick. However, there are lots of development properties springing up in the area and it won't be long before the adventurous begin to find it on a map.
In many ways, this building is kind of like a casket.
Here are a few of the other sights one might come across in this neck of the woods:
Amazing display of Shoefitti on Kingland Ave at Jackson
Greenpoint Hospital Outpatient Department
(apparently with no emergencies)
Directly across the street (Maspeth Ave) from the old Greenpoint
Hospital you will find these odd ducks. Looks like some interesting
balconage occurring on the corner at Olive Street
behind the old Casket Factory, some local Flava
Ill, Hellbent, I Spy and more...
I hope you enjoyed this little tour of rapidly changing Kingsland Avenue.
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Happy Holidays from Eagle Street!
With Eastern destination.
[Williamsburg Broadway]
Can be better than wandering...
[Greenpoint]
Well, not in responsible sense of the word, but it is green now
instead of steel gray. Things are starting to get interesting over
here on McGuinness Blvd. There's even a commercial space being offered at
$60/sf in the vicinity.
I guess its official: Brooklyn is Manhattan!
A few weeks back Brownstoner posted a flick i took of the Enequist Chemical Factory, out in Bushwick. Yesterday, while roaming over around that ghost town of a wasteland I noticed that the building had been knocked the hell down. So, if you happen to live anywhere near the corner of Randolph and Porter, in Bushwick (and for the life of me, i can't see why you would) and you find yourself short of breath or begin seeing space fairies and flying whosywhatits, perhaps it isn't a dream at all, but rather your body reacting to brain eating toxins that have been set free as a bird. can hear the children of Eastern Williamsburg chanting now....The chemical co. no more, no more- ding dong a ditch instead. Well, something like that, maybe. Just thought you may be interested.
I suppose someone is cleaning up Bushwick afterall.
Let us only hope there are no plans for a public pool.
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Bridge butt times two
[Williamsburg Southside]
and it's made me too dizzy to photog
nor have i sewn a log.
I may have a few things for you to see
if so, I'll throw them up and flee.
Pack leader, Sean G is representin WilliamsburgWalkers.com (the Burg's
PREMIERE Dog Walking service) here with his custom made poop bag
dispenser. You can't front on that!
[If you can, lemme know what you smell....]
like dirty words and pigeon conventions, just inventions.
[Williamsburg North 6th Street]
just a few stitches
and this bitch is a view
you can't refuse
or defuse with truth
even youth can't confuse
the use of this
city kiss you can't miss.
Just mashed up scenes
from the Pulaski Bridge
just a
smidge in
between Brooklyn
and Queens
or so it seems....
[Pulaski Bridge in between Brooklyn and Queens]
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I woodn't know where to begin.
[Freeman Street, Greenpoint]
Angel Bakery door half open
Dobbin Street [Greenpoint]
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