And Gets!!!

New Year's Day, Times Square Station - what a difference a couple of hours makes

cool shoes - if you can't stare at people's faces on the subway, you can definitely stare at their footwear

Sunshine came softly, but from where? This is in the Nevins St. Station

Where I went for my Columbia University ID. No, I'm not a student there.

A small corner of the Staten Island Ferry

I want to go to the movies but there's nothing here I haven't seen or don't really want to see.

Microscope Gallery, Bushwick. The aftermath of a performance by Lary 7

Lay 7's audience

Joel Schlemowitz cannot put that 16mm camera down!

Lary 7 meets his audience

This is Pete, the owner of Jo's Juice on Bedford, the best juice, smoothie and salad place in Bed-Stuy. Nay, in all of Central Brookyn.

I'm obsessed with both the wrongness and the rightness of this sign. Mix or Match!

The Baptist Church at the corner of Third Ave & Schermerhorn, where all kinds of people go when they are on their way up from under. The greeters who stand outside on Sundays are always really nice there, too!

The wheel reinvented a couple of times, Flatbush and Lafayette Aves.

Taking the new with the old (neighborhoods, that is)

It's this guy, again, at Nostrand and Lafayette...

accompanied today by a holy lady

last night in Bushwick

the new neighborhood, downtown Brooklyn/Boerum Hill has this gigantic fruit stand - it seemed to go on for an entire block

and then in BookCourt, the bookstore on Court St, I spied Eileen's book on a table of 'suggested titles'

Atlantic Ave. races into the future, except for this place, Hank's Saloon, at Third Ave and Atlantic

The Notorious B.I.G. honored here at Lexington & Bedford

and I needed a ticket, fast, to take care of the Christmas blues

somewhere in Bed-Stuy someone has an idea about governance

This is what it looks like when you get on the train at rush hour, going in the wrong direction - lots of space, and a few sleepy people. Everyone else is on the other train, going into Manhattan.

the possibilities are endless

looking through a hole in the sky, Barclay's Center

the construction never stops here on Flatbush Avenue

But I love that this small building persists in reminding us of what the neighborhood used to be about

these good people are in search of decent affordable housing for everyone in NYC, kept behind barriers - a police tactic that everyone now accepts, creating distance between freedom of speech and the person the speech is intended for, in this case, the Mayor

while these good people are waiting to get into the press conference being held by the Mayor where he will speak to the issue of affordable housing

since I moved, my commute takes me to the heart of the financial district before heading for the Staten Island Ferry

Lafayette Ave at Nostrand. The importance of a central theme communicated through symmetry

A storefront in Ridgewood near my storage space fascinates me, draws me in. I will go in next time just to satisfies my curiosity.

this is it - the last hour of the last day as I moved from my old place in Bed-Stuy to the temple in Boerum Hill

Bushwick and Bed-Stuy, friends 4-ever

Going up the steps to catch the J train, Broadway near DeKalb, right on the Bed-Stuy - Bushwick border.

What are the rents like in this neighborhood? Not too bad .... yet.

I love this old building across from the el. It looks like they tore down the rest of the block but just couldn't bring themselves to destroy this old treasure.

And further into Bushwick, one finds a Hallowe'en decoration still rockin' it.

Up close, it's actually pretty hideously frightening.

Flushing Avenue - corner of Tompkins, or thereabouts.

The dreaded Woodhull Hospital. Dreaded architecture and scary medical attention. Don't go here if you don't have to. 

At the 777 Deli - a humble hanging light within a grand setting.

But the setting itself is worth repeating, even without the light fixture.

This place at the Nostrand Ave. B38 bus stop - a failed deli that is now being turned into...another deli?

Ex-slave

unambiguous lock - R-train platform at 86th Street, Bay Ridge.

Above ground, Bay Ridge. A billboard about love.

 

A smokey scene, Park Slope.

Behind the scenes at the coop. I'm just having a sandwich in the conference room while waiting to start my shift. I do data entry!

Total junk on offer at Duane Reade's, Jay Street.

A new product - take better selfies!

The interior of Cinnamon Girl deli/coffee spot. I like this place.