One of the fun parts of living on Atlantic Avenue on Atlantic Antic day is walking down the street while they are setting up:
This is the scene directly outside our place. Making me very hungry…
Category: Brooklyn
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The Best Sunday of the Year
The best street fair in NYC, Brooklyn’s Atlantic Antic is this Sunday on our street. I will be very full…
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Big Ass Turtle
Finally, a click-bait headline. Last weekend there was a block party about a block away from us. There’s a church on that block and most of the events were geared as fundraisers.
Along with the bouncy castles, arts and crafts and cotton candy, they had a “petting zoo” area. Not common in Brooklyn, but goats, some rabbits and some ducks/swans wasn’t that unusual.
The big ass turtle roaming freely in the parking lot was…
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What’s Cool About Twitter
I'm skating around NYC right now. First person to stop me and ask for my board can have it. http://t.co/lSW4iUVlsC—
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If I Don’t Answer the Phone…
It’s because I’m here. The park shown in that post is two blocks from my office and my favorite “thinking walk”.
Still waiting for them to open the climbing wall, it looks nice…
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Old and New
Here’s a site that matches old historical NYC photos with their locations:
Here’s our block in 1930:
And today via Google Street View.
Same church, but the surroundings have changed. Interestingly a lot more trees…
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Brooklyn Co-op of the Day
Via Brownstoner.com, the co-op of the day is in our building. I don’t know the specific unit (and in our building the apartments vary quite a bit due to the fact that it was once the Ex-Lax factory).
If you follow the links and do the math it’s going for about $910/sq. ft.
Welcome to Brooklyn…
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Rain Wins
It should have been a great sports night in NYC. Yankees hosting division rival Toronto and Serena playing at the US Open.
Rain, rain, go away.
Guess I’ll have to watch the cheating Patriots tonight…What’s the over/under on mentions of ball pressure?
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