At 12 noon every Saturday I’m usually waiting for Vika to finish her spinning class at the Sheapshead Bay gym.  Today at 12 noon I went upstairs to the subway station and here is what I saw.

1. Sign post
2. Q Train Arriving Synch
3. Looking South from the elevated platform
4. Looking North
5. Waiting for a Train                          
6. Sheapshead Bay Geese

June 11, 2006.
Brighton Beach aka Little Odessa is the largest Russian speaking community in the world outside of the USSR.  In Seabreeze Park, across the street from where I live, dancing and singing is presented every Sunday during Russian Heritage Month.  The Russians are world known for their ballet, ice skating and singing, so it is no surprise to find great young talent here.  The cultural traditions and discipline continues.

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"The Childs Boardwalk restaurant, on the Coney Island boardwalk at West 21st built in 1923. This stucco and terracotta palace has marble columns and a facade  decorated with polychrome, nautical theme medallions." - "Coney Island Lost and Found" by Charles Denson   MikeH has some really good closeups of this building further down the page.

Strangers - I'm addicted to these.
At my lunch perch on the NE corner of 34th street and 7th Ave. She is photographing her friends with the Empire State Building as a background.
Times Square, 44th and Broadway.  The man taking the photo is selling them for $20 a piece.  He has a cart on the sidewalk with a printer connected to a car battery.

After the Manhattan Hustle, at least twice a week I get off the subway one stop early in Brighton Beach and walk theboard walk home to Coney Island.  Today was overcast, a soothing, cooling sea breeze blows away my doubts and I sight seagulls swooping, swaying, serenading.

Afta takin the Verrazano Narrows Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn I proseed east on the Belt Pwky and park my caaar at the Home Depow on the boarda of Queens and Brooklyn.  I walk across to the Bike_Run_Roller Path and fuhgeddaboudit

Da bridg is at da mouth of da mighty Hudson Riva.  The openin to Nu York Harba n travelin furtha in is the Statchew of Liberty.

We walked today to the Botanic Gardens by way of the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn and here is a shot of the fountain.
Fountain

Howdy All...

I noticed Tappa posted some great graffiti photographs from New Zealand yesterday. I just got a roll of film back that i snapped over this past weekend, that included some similar types of images. A capturing of various Brooklyn facades (and a couple miscellaneous photos). Thought I'd share:

BrooklynBrick1                    BrooklynFix
BrooklynBrick2                    SleepTrain
BrooklynRedWall                 BrooklynNightTree1
BrooklynBrickWindow          BrooklynNightTree2
BrooklynCorner                  SideWalkShadowSolo
BrooklynFront                    StreetShadowsFour
BrooklynGarage