Posts Tagged Brooklyn
The Brooklyn view of Wall St., taken through a kitchen porthole, allows passengers to view hundreds of glimmering dots along the east river.
The community garden is open to everyone in the neighborhood.
The city ordered the building taken down after it sustained damage from the June 21 collapse of 493 Myrtle, at right. The Local, a blog by The New York Times about Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, has been covering the building collapse extensively.
Andrew Lutsky reads The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture while waiting in line to cast his ballot for Ralph Nader outside William Alexander School in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on Election Day.
Amid extensive renovation projects of the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s historic structures, energy efficient buildings like this are being built. Wind turbines and rooftop solar panels symbolize the green future of one of Brooklyn’s last remaining industrial zones.
Jane Walentas has been restoring this carousel, originally built in 1922, since purchasing it in 1984. Its current home, a converted spice warehouse, isn’t large enough to safely accommodate riders. In its transient state, with 1200 lights and 24k gold detailing, it’s another gallery-hopping stop in Dumbo. Walentas hopes to relocate the finished carousel in [...]
Neighbors gathered around this three-story tenement building as three fire trucks responded to the scene with about two dozen firefighters. The flames were swiftly drowned and soon after the firefighters used jackhammers to tear off the burned siding and insulation.
