Showing posts with label Gowanus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gowanus. Show all posts

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Couple in grey


I said, let's just go to the bus stop under the raised section of the F in Gowanus. I'd had luck there several times. Nobody at the bus stop but low and behold along comes this couple as we continue on our way. They run a business making chalk boards and slate boards for arranging food or anything you feel like, and often dress like they are here, in grey.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Today's New York couple

They were standing at the bus stop under the raised section of the F and G lines over the Gowanus Canal. This monster construction on stilts, clad in the now not so fashionable New Yorkers' uniform of its time, black, shelters waiting bus riders from sun and rain. Here we have today's New Yorkers, a banker and his girl friend, whose roots are many degrees of longitude apart.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Kentile Floors sign

We passed the sign on the way to brunch at Bar Tano. As impressive as it was I did not want to photograph it because the detail of the light toned brick in the building was distracting. Later, returning from a stroll around Park Slope the building was in shadow. The shadows come from the elevated portion of the F and G trains that crosses the Gowanus Canal.

(History lesson: The canal was too deep for a tunnel to be built under it.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Hungry girl with chipped fingernails

It was hot, dusty and noisy. Three friends were sheltering in the shade of the overhead tracks of the F and G train on 9th Street near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. They were waiting for the shuttle bus to take them to Ikea. At first the girl wanted to get rid of the cake and drink, but I said no, they were essential to the picture and told her how terrific she looked holding them.