Lost City
21 December 2008

Snowy Brooklyn

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Some images from Friday's snow storm.
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19 December 2008

Merry Christmas, Rat Squirrel House!

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Your bricks are red. Your shed is green. You aren't what you used to be. You're just like Christmas! Will Santa bring Rat-Squirrel-H...
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18 December 2008

Community Garden Christmas Tree

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Saw this fir inside a small community garden on Columbia Street. Nice bit of semi-public cheer. I think that did a good job with it.

Revere Sugar Refinery Remembered in Oil

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The House of Pizza and Calzone has made some additional changes since they revamped their home a few months back. Some changes are lamentabl...

Does That Mean New York Is Heaven?

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One of my all-time favorite mangled New York signs. Eternal life in New York? Doesn't sound to bad. On a lonely span of 37th Avenue in W...
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17 December 2008

The Orange Hut

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If I ever became a filmmaker and decided to shoot a movie in New York, one of the locations I'd exploit would be the Orange Hut in Woods...
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Big Cup, Big Cone

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In Chinatown, above, and Borough Park, below. These guys should get together.
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16 December 2008

Not Quite Crapitecture

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This almost-complete apartment building on Columbia and Summit Streets in Brooklyn ain't gonna win the architect the Pritzker Prize, but...
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Degraw Delight Back Then

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A reader asked for me to post a photo of how the building at the corner of Degraw and Henry in Cobble Hill used to look. Here it is in 1927....
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A Good Sign: Joseph Gutman Associates

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In Chelsea. A good place to find sewing machine parts and supplies. And maybe the Maltese Falcon.
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Brooks of Sheffield
New York City, New York
I have lived in New York City since 1988 and earn my bread as a writer. I began this blog in January 2006. Beyond that, don't be so nosy. "I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism." —Roberto Rossellini
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