Greenpoint
Cafe Cito Bogota
Crosstown Local Videos Du Jour: Audience Participation Time!
What do you get when you take a young man singing at the Smith – 9th platform of the G, add one VERY IRATE woman tired of listening to him and toss in a drunk Polish dude for good measure? Hilarity! That’s what!
Okay, so we have established this woman is not a big fan of this crooner. No worries, a man on the Court Square bound platform is! Be sure to listen very carefully for when she offers to buy this gent a beer if he’ll jump on the subway tracks: priceless.
The previous footage was shot May 20, 2009 at 10:20 p.m. I probably speak for many who witnessed this chain of events last night (and there were MANY. Waiting. For the G.) when I say this is the best entertainment I have ever received for $2.00. Hell, it’s a bargain at twice the price! Which, knowing the MTA, will come to pass soon enough.
Miss Heather
Williamspoint Photos Du Jour: Critters
From Greenpoint Avenue, Ainslie Street, Kent Avenue & Wythe Avenue.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: On The Waterfront
Filed under: Williamsburg
Kent Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue
River Street
Grand Ferry Park
Miss Heather
Crosstown Local Photos Du Jour: Love Connection
From Metropolitan Avenue.
Miss Heather
Attention All Urban Photographers & Street Art Enthusiasts
If you happen to be on River Street do not take a picture of this.
And sure as hell don’t shutterbug this.
Why, you ask? Because if you do it might result in you (and your husband) being questioned by New York’s Finest as to what you are doing. This is what happened to the Mister and I this evening.
Hello there, we see you’re taking photographs— why?
Miss Heather: I think the shadows and diagonals are visually pleasing.
We saw you take photographs of graffiti back there.
Miss Heather: Yeah, someone spray-painted the word “meat” on the wall and I found it interesting.
Because it’s sort of “beefy”?
Miss Heather: Exactly. I happen to be a vegetarian.
Seeing where this conversation was headed (nowhere good— and soon) the Mister jumped in and after some more “dialoging”, they left us to go about our business. Inasmuch as interfacing with the NYPD can be amicable it was: tense, but polite. Still the experience left me wondering:
Why?
Perhaps these chaps have been instructed to watch photographers— especially those who happen to document “graffiti”? The only logic at work here I can think of is the presumption that when people (such as myself) document this stuff it is going to somehow encourage the people responsible for it to continue their nefarious work (and, in so doing, lower everyone’s “quality of life”). I suppose this is possible. BUT…
it’s been my experience that derelict buildings (of which north Brooklyn has many— such as the one above example which is located around the corner) do more than their fair share of lowering my quality of life.
Nice, eh?
The above can be found on the front door of this Kent Street deadiface. Call me subversive, but I don’t really see how this could possibly be construed as making this building an eyesore. It has achieved that very readily on its own. Rather smashingly, I will add. One piece of street art graffiti isn’t going to make any difference; if anything the above bit of mischief adds some sorely needed “value” to this turd. It certainly makes me smile, anyway.
Speaking of which, a building doesn’t have to be old and decrepit to elicit social commentary, oh, I mean graffiti.
CASE IN POINT: Northside Piers.
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photos Du Jour: A Sampling Of Street Art
Metropolitan Avenue
North 9 Street
North 10 Street
Bedford Avenue
Kent Avenue
Miss Heather
Williamsburg Photo Du Jour: 11211
From Metropolitan Avenue.
Miss Heather
Willamspoint Photos Du Jour: People In My Neighborhood
Bedford Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue
Grand Street
Franklin Street
Kent Avenue
Maspeth Avenue
Manhattan Avenue
Miss Heather
New York Shitty Day Ender: Zoo York
5th Avenue
Washington Avenue
St. Mark’s Avenue
Bedford Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue
North 1 Street
Nassau Avenue
Manhattan Avenue
Miss Heather
Williamspoint Photos Du Jour: More Naughty Bits
Nassau Avenue
Metropolitan Avenue
There’s nothing in the world quite like north Brooklyn in the springtime.
Miss Heather
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