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October 22, 2008
Wednesday Blogwrap
Brooklyn Yard Sale. Photo by Eugene Gannon from the Brownstoner Flickr pool.
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^^^ Is that the place on 10th Street? Or is there another person obsessed with displaying prune juice bottles in their yard?
Posted by: SnarkSlope at October 22, 2008 4:41 PM
anti-minimalism
Posted by: sam at October 22, 2008 4:44 PM
I wonder what's in the garbage bags?
Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 22, 2008 4:45 PM
Yard sale? Folk art? Shrine? Tenth and where, SnarkSlope?
Posted by: altervoce at October 22, 2008 4:49 PM
It takes the city two years to install pumps in the Gowanus? It takes two years for the private sector to erect an entire office building.
Posted by: denton at October 22, 2008 4:52 PM
altervoce - I think it's between 2nd and 3rd Ave. I always pass it on the way to Lowes.
bayridgegirl - Ever watch Dexter?
Posted by: SnarkSlope at October 22, 2008 4:56 PM
I think on an artistic level, it's more interesting than the waterfalls...cross threading here.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 22, 2008 4:59 PM
I imagine the neighbors wish this person would find another outlet for their OCD. It's no Watt's Towers, that's for sure.
Posted by: SnarkSlope at October 22, 2008 5:05 PM
Looks like someone practices Santoria.
Hey Rob, you got to come back to JC, we got all types of stoop sales. I know you are a stoop sale afficinado. You should start a stoop sale blog.
Posted by: Adam Dahill at October 22, 2008 5:09 PM
If you pass it on the way TO Lowes, it can't be Tenth Street. Tenth runs uphill, away from the home improvement store.
Posted by: altervoce at October 22, 2008 5:14 PM
The only thing uglier than this crapfest is the siding on the house. Yikes!
Posted by: GHB at October 22, 2008 5:17 PM
"If you pass it on the way TO Lowes, it can't be Tenth Street."
It can be if one - clutch pearls - walks to Lowe's.
Here it is:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=Brooklyn,+NY&fb=1&f=q&ll=40.671989,-73.989884&spn=0.006013,0.009656&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.670696,-73.991176&panoid=kISbm7vP4_j-mBEYW2IH6w&cbp=1,211.9784588792578,,0,3.993148583267669
Posted by: SnarkSlope at October 22, 2008 5:23 PM
I shudder to think what the inside looks like. Clearly a packrat.
Posted by: gkw at October 22, 2008 5:29 PM
Nevermind the garbage bags...
What's in the bottles on the stoop??? I shudder to think!
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 22, 2008 5:36 PM
Dunkin Donut Bag....appetizing.
Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 22, 2008 5:44 PM
And people get tickets for not sweeping up the leaves in front of their homes?
Posted by: TownhouseLady at October 22, 2008 5:51 PM
It was all so remarkably tasteful until I spotted the pink flamingo!
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 22, 2008 6:03 PM
WOW, I've been looking for an empty Cap'n Crunch box for years. I just pray it hasn't been sold by the time I get there.
Posted by: Biff Champion at October 22, 2008 6:05 PM
Directions:
Circle as many of the following objects in the Hidden Picture Game.
-One Jesus Statue
-Five brown bottles
-Two blue tarps
-One Dunkin Donut Bag
-One Captain Crunch Ceral Box
-One Tin Plate
-Four American Flags
-One dolka dot gift bag
-One plastic laundry bin
-Two garbage bags
-One pink flamingo
-Three pringle potato chip cans
-Three cheez balls cans
-One tide detergent bottle
-One plastic Santa Clause statue holding a Christmas tree
-One Playskool Spinning toy
-One Fisher Price Bead and Wire toy
-Numbers 220
-Forty pieces of paper
-Three grocery store plastic bags
-One thousand twigs
Time allotted: 10 minutes.
On your mark, get set, GO!
Posted by: bayridgegirl at October 22, 2008 6:58 PM
If this is a stoop sale, I'm going to be really sad: I've been taking shots of this front yard for years, and have always considered it one of the most idiosyncratic, wonderful collections in NYC.
It was because of this yard that I started a Flickr pool called "Hodgepodge."
http://www.flickr.com/groups/_hodgepodge/
Posted by: frankl at October 22, 2008 7:54 PM
No way is it going to take the city a mere two years to replace one propeller with three pumps. You gotta figure a year per pump at least, with maybe another year to remove the propeller. I cannot even begin to imagine the stench.
They should let Toll Brothers fix the thing. They have the proper motivation.
Posted by: Brooklyn Chicken at October 22, 2008 8:28 PM
I find it oddly compelling to look at this 'hodgepodge' as frankl calls it. The colors and is that St. Francis?
Posted by: cobblehiller at October 22, 2008 8:59 PM
Hello yuplanders? This is the real Brooklyn!
The house next door? 1.4 million.
Posted by: sam at October 22, 2008 9:42 PM
what is that isit for sale i want to buy that all does the hou thas a AIR DISTRIBUTION...!!
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Posted by: patrai808 at October 23, 2008 2:30 AM
That looks like a whole big bunch of tinder.
Posted by: dittoburg at October 23, 2008 10:05 AM
This is on 10th street between 3rd and 4th, right across from the MTA yard under the 9th street station...I lived around the corner from here for 6 years, so I walked past this house every single day. The house is owned by a little old man who is a Vietnam War vet. He lives in the house alone and has the fattest, nastiest Jack Russell Terrier that I've ever encountered.
His front yard is a constant work in progress - he was out there everyday adding new "pieces", sweeping, pruning his half-dead bush. Despite how it looks in the picture, he would actually go through it quite frequently and remove older pieces that had faded or been blown apart by the wind/weather. I think he just refuses to throw anything away - pack rat mentality or something. He would tie pieces of used tinfoil around the bushes, like tinsel. He would cut up empty dog treat bags and put them on top of each spike on the fence. There are tons of empty prune juice bottles laying around. There was an entire shrine devoted to pictures cut out of magazines of attractive female celebrities with their dogs at one point in time. Plenty of Jesus statues/pictures/figurines as well.
He's not the friendliest guy on the block, but it was always interesting to look at, to say the least. I always wondered what the inside of his house must look like....
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