Slideshow of the Week: The Houses in Brooklyn

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Slideshow of the Week: Ornamental Brooklyn

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Slideshow of the Week: Castles of Limbo (Car Service Waiting Rooms)

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Slideshow of the Week: Brooklyn by the Sea

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Slideshow of the Week: Coney Island (inc. Coney Island Creek)

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Slideshow of the Week: Brooklyn Unleashed

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Slideshow of the Week: Billboard Shells

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Slideshow of the Week: Industrial Brooklyn

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Slideshow of the Week: Abandoned Toys

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Slideshow of the Week: Monumental Brooklyn

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Slideshow of the Week: Heavenly Transmissions

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Slideshow of the Week: Churches & Transit

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Slideshow of the Week: Bags on Barbed Wire

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Slideshow of the Week: 99¢ Wholesale

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Slideshow of the Week: Footbridges & Pedestrian Tunnels

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Slideshow of the Week: Cemeteries

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Slideshow of the Week: Brooklyn Birds

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Slideshow of the Week: Gravesend

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Slideshow of the Week: The Autosphere

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The Houses in Brooklyn (Brooklyn’s in the House) – Part 2

Williamsburg

Greenpoint

Greenwood Heights

Windsor Terrace






SLIDESHOW – The Houses in Brooklyn (Flickr)

Citicorp Metaphor (Object Reminders)

The Citicorp building in Queens (as seen from northern Brooklyn)




Towering over a landscape of cemeteries, billboards, and scrap yards

Behold the shadow it casts on the flatness all around it

Empire Under Siege

Water Tower Wired

Cell phone waves
Flow through clouds
In a glowering sky

Monumental Brooklyn

Houdini’s Grave (Queens)

Machpelah Cemetery, Queens

Trinity Cemetery: Monument to Modesty

“To ensure uniformity and humility so that there would be no difference between rich and poor, a rule was passed that all markers would have to be made of wood or hollow metal.” (From cemetery history, Gowanus Lounge blog.)

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Tracks along the edge of the cemetery (see earlier post, “Lutheran Cemetery”)



Vegetation, wrecked cars in the space between Trinity and neighboring Cemetery of the Evergreens. (Click for Google 360-degree view of peripheral street.)


Exit, Trinity Cemetery