I chose this photograph for the strangeness of the long, sloping, vanishing building, which makes me think of Giorgio de Chirco’s Mystery and Melancholy of a Street.

285 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Another Third Avenue pharmacy torn down for the Gowanus Parkway.

This building, at the southeast corner of 46th Street and 3rd Avenue, was one of many that were destroyed to make room fo Robert Caro’s Gowanus Parkway.

The druggist whose pharmacy was torn down to make room for the Gowanus Parkway. A 1936 Brooklyn Eagle article.

The Diner, “No Food Finer.”

I don’t know what’s up (sorry) with that tree, but it’s been like that for years, though not always with a pen...

Just another diner.

Another Hopper Zippy.