Since then, Ferguson, Staten Island, and the rest of the whole damned militarized country

Rally at Foley Square, NYC, last Thursday. Lots of really good people there.

"I spy with my little eye"

these are everywhere - green taxis for the boroughs

the Cedar Tree Garden on Greene and Franklin, Clinton Hill

I have to hang out to make sure this woman is being treated alright by the cops. I think they're trying to help her rather than trying to harass her.

This is what I got for $17 at the Hattie Carthan Farmer's Market.

Yoga font spotted on Fulton Street near Nostrand Ave.

Recycling digital and electronic items, Marcy Ave.

An old snow cone vendors cart with Mexican tchotchkes and flowers.

time for photos of autumn in the park - Von King Park, Brooklyn

the house that formerly was covered in blue (see post from about a week ago)

the corner of Lafayette & Nostrand Aves. - busy!

The jury-rigged building on Lafayette & Nostrand - endlessly fascinating to me the way the occupant is re-fitting the ground floor facade to suit a not-immediately-apparent function.

the jury-rigging, close-up

I love this cat.

relaxing at the Civil Service (used to be the Tiny Cup) on Nostrand at Clifton, Brooklyn - could be the last warm day we have for a while

the Dutch style wood frame house with a brick ground-floor extension, Quincy Street, Brooklyn

Early morning, Von King Park

what's it all about, Alfie?

This house used to be the haunt of a couple of neighborhood junkies. Then the cops raided the house and the junkies are gone, and the house is literally falling apart. Van Buren Street.

Please fix this up! Van Buren Street.

Points of Observation

Classic and restrained solutions to the problem of having large wads of cash laying around. Mostly one dollar bills, I believe, but the display of real money in this gents' store window was provocative nonetheless. Below, additional possibilities for the elegant male.

The late summer sun through the leaves of the fig tree in the backyard; then additional lightplays -- light and shadow on the bathroom wall, with the light breaking apart into a soft prism; and late afternoon light streaming through the empty cavern of what used to be Daffy's at Atlantic Center, downtown Brooklyn.

 

The interest in this policing device on Lexington Ave., Bed-Stuy,  doesn't wane. I decided to get a closer look, below, at the mechanism and design.

One of the entrances to the Louis Armstrong Houses, where the police surveillance tower is parked. And below, a sign welcoming visitors to the housing block.

 

I love this Roti catering truck, which has been parked for months behind a fence in a lot near the Bed-Stuy YMCA.

 

The work continues on the Mark Morris Dance Group mural -- these shots taken a week after the first ones posted on September 21.

An important message about water, Third Ave., Brooklyn.

On Lafayette Street, Fort Greene . . .

and a glittering new bicycle as viewed from the rather filthy window of the No. 38 Bus.