Wednesday Blogwrap
Brooklyn Yard Sale. Photo by Eugene Gannon from the Brownstoner Flickr pool. Mole People Back in Brooklyn? [McBrooklyn] Location, Location, Location in the Burg [Curbed] How To: Embed a Scrap Bowl Into Your Countertop [Apartment Therapy NY] Gowanus Canal Could Get Smellier Before It Gets Cleaner [Gothamist] Guidebook Incorporates LES, Nolita, And Chelsea Into Brooklyn…
Brooklyn Yard Sale. Photo by Eugene Gannon from the Brownstoner Flickr pool.
Mole People Back in Brooklyn? [McBrooklyn]
Location, Location, Location in the Burg [Curbed]
How To: Embed a Scrap Bowl Into Your Countertop [Apartment Therapy NY]
Gowanus Canal Could Get Smellier Before It Gets Cleaner [Gothamist]
Guidebook Incorporates LES, Nolita, And Chelsea Into Brooklyn [NYC The Blog]
IDT Energy Scammers on Carroll St. Right Now [GL]
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….
That looks like a whole big bunch of tinder.
what is that isit for sale i want to buy that all does the hou thas a AIR DISTRIBUTION…!!
http://www.silversheet.org
Hello yuplanders? This is the real Brooklyn!
The house next door? 1.4 million.
I find it oddly compelling to look at this ‘hodgepodge’ as frankl calls it. The colors and is that St. Francis?
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.
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/
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!
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.