Just some guys hanging out?
285 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn.
Another disappearing pharmacy
Another Third Avenue pharmacy torn down for the Gowanus Parkway.
There is no there there
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.
This building, at the southeast corner of 46th Street and 3rd Avenue, was one of many that were destroyed to make room for the parkway.
Dr. Max Korowitz
The druggist whose pharmacy was torn down to make room for the Gowanus Parkway. A 1936 Brooklyn Eagle article.
George’s Diner
Just another diner.
Kids making the scene
What happened one day on 38th Street: those three kids followed the photographers down (or up) the block. These kids would not be denied, though I doubt that anyone was trying to deny them.
Jack’s Diner
I like seeing a diner wherever there’s space for one.
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The House of Pets, now with added mayhem.
Animal house
Walk down Flatbush Avenue from (what I’ve dubbed) the Leaning Tower of Brooklyn, and you woul have found The House of Pets, aka Altman’s Long Island Bird Store. With scenes of animal mayhem.
The Leaning Tower of Brooklyn
The camera angle makes this corner look like the Leaning Tower of Brooklyn, but in truth it’s the tip of an triangle bounded by Flatbush Avenue (to the left), Ashland Place (to the right), and Lafayette Avenue (out of sight).
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Another Hopper Zippy.
Just some diner?
A diner, a delivery truck, a radio show.
Neon in semi-daylight
4920 New Utrecht Avenue: I chose this photograph for its neon in semi-daylight, vivid in the shadow of the El. The band of light between the El and the buildings looks itself a bit like neon, or at least like fluorescence.
A New Utrecht address
I wonder if anyone who isn’t reading this post knows of the tragedy that visited this address just over a century ago.
“Swims clings or crawls”
“If it swims clings or crawls we have it”: Brooklyn signage.
SIGNS
The Half Moon Hotel and other signs.
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More about the Cammareri Bakery.
Castorini and Cammareri
The house and bakery from Moonstruck.
A golden pig
I enjoyed an outstanding porketta sandwich last week, and it brought to mind somthing I hit upon a few months ago, a tax photograph of a Brooklyn pork store, Suino d’Oro.
A prisoner of Gowanus
“Whaddaya gonna do, just stan’ there all day takin’ my pitcher?”
block=1 AND lot=1
No time for rabbit holes this week; I decided just to use the numbering system for the WPA tax photographs to find a property: block=1 AND lot=1. The building looks like a warehouse of some sort, with the Manhattan Bridge looming overhead.
Generations and a settlement house
Lots of human interest in these tax photographs.
On Chauncey Street
Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners.
On the waterfront
Just some grocery store in the Waterfront District, with a guy who looks like he’s from On the Waterfront.
A waterfront barber
At 194 Columbia Street, Brooklyn. Not quite Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning.
Myrtle Ave. Drug Co.
Whoever owned this building knew something about monetizing: it looks like a miniature Times Square, minus the LEDs.
David and Judith Schubert
A poet’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Laundry day
The likely residents of 561 Union Street, and a connection to a grocery store down the street.
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There’s someone — maybe two people? — doing laundry in that photograph.
Mind the gap
A recent real-estate listing ($2.695 million) tells the story of a property with “so much charm that even the pickiest Parisienne will melt.” At the time of this photograph though? Maybe not so much.