Victorian Flatbush in White
[nggallery id=”27823″ template=galleryview] 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!
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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!
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.
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!
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…
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/
Let’s get back to enjoying the photos, even the more desirable ones with compromised focal lengths.
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.
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…
Wow,
Too much coffee is really screwing up my typing, I REALLY should have re-read that post for grammatical errors.
Sorry guys!
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