Autumn is in full swing and the leaves are changing on every corner. Here is a glance of what autumn looks like on Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Category: <span>Brooklyn Life</span>
Photo for 11/10/09: Street After Cleaning Day
“It’s quite apparent that no street cleaning truck came by during the designated hours, because the leaves from the day before are still there,” says Ray Johnson [Sheepsheadbites.com]
The Climbers
By Rob Anderson “I’m not crazy,” the woman says in a thick Brooklyn accent. “I am not going up there.” She is speaking to the bottom half of a man–her husband, presumably–who has climbed up a perilous-looking, retractable metal ladder into a hole carved out of the ceiling in apartment 4D. “I don’t know what...
The Composter
Kendall Morrison is surrounded by garbage, food waste, spores of fungus. He is a happy man. Morrison cannot avoid smiling when he says that he will fill one the few green oasis in Bushwick with his beloved rubbish.
A Child’s Perfect Crime
The bakery, La Table Exquise, opened the other night in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and families and friends came to Tompkins Street in groups.
Photo for 11/9/09: The Brooklyn Beefsteak
This weekend, Brooklyn paid homage to a classic New York tradition: the beefsteak.
The Queen
There must be a manual for how to dress on a cruise because as the passengers of the Queen Mary 2 arrived at Pier 12 of the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, they seemed to all be in uniform.
Photo for 11/6/09: Matsui with Trophy
New York Yankees’ Hideki Matsui holds up the MVP trophy after the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3, in Game 6 of the World Series on Wednesday in New York.
Photo for 11/5/09: Giant Protest Rat
Union workers from National Grid use a giant rat to protest the use of non-union workers by the corporation to remove asbestos from its building on Jay Street.
The Morning Rush
Ishita Singh has a scene from Borough Hall in downtown Brooklyn, where something unexpected cuts through the humdrum of the daily morning rush.