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January 16, 2009

Victorian Flatbush in White

Longtime reader and Prospect Park South resident Nelson Ryland was nice enough to send in some photos of his neighborhood during yesterday's snow. Lovely!




Posted by Brownstoner at 10:31 AM | Comments (22)
Categories: Victorian Flatbush

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Very nice and considerate but 40% of the photos are out of focus.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 16, 2009 10:34 AM

I think they are supposed to be. That's the 'art' part of it.

Posted by: eyepenn at January 16, 2009 10:40 AM

jeez dave.

nice photos! it's so strange, sometimes look at photos like that i bet most people would never guess it was brooklyn! i really want to take a tour of victorian flatbush... any idea the best way to do that?

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 16, 2009 10:43 AM

The focus, on the two photographs in question, is in the falling snowflakes close to the camera. IMO this is a very effective use of selective focus and they're beautiful photographs.

Don't be so literal-minded DIBS. You remind me of some of the old fart judges the Brooklyn Camera Club sometimes gets for it's competitions :-)

Posted by: Bob Marvin at January 16, 2009 10:46 AM

So if they were for sale, the ones out of focus would be more expensive???

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 16, 2009 10:46 AM

*rob*,

Victorian Flatbush has a house tour every spring--the date hasn't been announced yet, but it's been in early June for the last few years.

Posted by: Bob Marvin at January 16, 2009 10:48 AM

It's like the Gates in Central Park. People either hate it or love it.

Posted by: eyepenn at January 16, 2009 10:49 AM

Nah DIBS--they're all art :-)

Posted by: Bob Marvin at January 16, 2009 10:49 AM

BUT, those two photographs are the ones I wish I had made! The technique wouldn't have occurred to me--but I just might copy it sometime :-)

Posted by: Bob Marvin at January 16, 2009 10:52 AM

I need to get over to this part of Brooklyn more. These are great pictures.

Have to break out of the brownstone bubble.

Posted by: Danny Noonan at January 16, 2009 11:05 AM

dave! oy!

Posted by: Ringo at January 16, 2009 11:10 AM

You definitely should go on the house tour if you want to see the interiors of the homes featured but you can also take a walking tour with Ron Schweiger, the official Brooklyn Historian or just take the 'B/Q' train to Beverley Road, Cortelyou Road or Newkirk Avenue and start exploring on your own. There are several nice places to have luch or dinner including French bistro, Pakistani, Mexican and Jamaican. If you decide to go it alone, as with anywhere in NYC use your common sense when wandering around.

Posted by: Chaka at January 16, 2009 11:21 AM

thanks bob and chaka!

*rob*

Posted by: PitbullNYC at January 16, 2009 11:26 AM

A new thread for once. Now we just need The What to comment on it, I bet it would go something like this:

Fact:
You Asshats don't realize that snow is owned by Big Ass Industro Corporation whose stock has fallen faster than I think the sky is. Wake up and realize that all you are doomed and you will be losing your house due to you're greedy nature to exploit it. You won't even realize it until it's too late and it's June and you have no more snow. 2009 is going to be a disastrous for snow.

The What

Posted by: FGCHill at January 16, 2009 11:31 AM

Wow,

Too much coffee is really screwing up my typing, I REALLY should have re-read that post for grammatical errors.
Sorry guys!

Posted by: FGCHill at January 16, 2009 11:36 AM

Any link to more photos by your reader? Great shots - that neighborhood is harder to shoot than most would think (to me at least).

To The What: someday this floor is going to bend...

Posted by: lalaland at January 16, 2009 11:37 AM

Just to be clear that was not the real " The What", I don't want anyone to think I was trying to do something sneaky to post as him. Just a joke.

Posted by: FGCHill at January 16, 2009 11:41 AM

Let's get back to enjoying the photos, even the more desirable ones with compromised focal lengths.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at January 16, 2009 11:44 AM

I don't know anything about photography but I do know that after I left Sycamore (bar/flower shop on Cortelyou) last Friday night, all of the houses on my walk home looked like the photos here taken by use of the compromised focal length technique.

The Flatbush Gardener has more neighborhood photos http://flickr.com/photos/flatbushgardener/collections/72157600853607252/

Posted by: Chaka at January 16, 2009 1:18 PM

Our nabe is purty in the snow, and the spring, and summer, and fall!!! Yes, take Q/B to Cortelyou or Beverly Road, and just mosey around. Watch out for film crews, we get tons of them...

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at January 16, 2009 1:47 PM

These are from the Prospect Park South Historic District. I also like "out-of-focus" shots. Fun to figure out which houses are in the background. The 5th one is 143 Buckingham Road.

Flatbush Development Corporation sponsors the Victorian Flatbush House (and sometimes also Garden) Tour every year. It covers a huge area which includes four landmarked historic districts. The link is http://fdconline.org/housetour.html. It also gets publicized in the press, and especially local blogs, when the date is announced.

Chaka: Thanks for the link!

Posted by: Xris at January 16, 2009 2:37 PM

Rob,
My suggestion is get off at Cortelyou, walk up (to the right) Marlboro to Albemarle, take a little jog over to the right up Buckingham to check out that craaaazy Japanese looking house, come back to Albemarle and walk down Rugby to Cortelyou, and continue in that up and down fashion through Stratford. Then, backtrack to Cortelyou to Sycamore and have a drink.

On a second trip, go to Newkirk and meander around Ditmas Park proper, ending your walk at Pomme de Terre for a nice dinner.

Posted by: Back40 at January 16, 2009 4:14 PM

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