NYC encompasses many superlatives. It’s a sad addition to the list to add it's being possibly the "dirtiest water in North America". The Newtown creek was until the early 19th century more an agricultural highway, bringing fresh produce in from Bushwick's pastures and fields. Since industries first came to its shores in the early 19th century, two centuries of runoff, effluent, and spills have blended together to create a complex chemical cocktail--ncluding sulfiric acid, mercury, lead, and pcb's--with a very long history. Perhaps the worst of these contaminations was the estimated 30 million gallons of oil that leaked out of Exxon...

Bushwick Halloween

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

This is my current favorite corner in all of Bushwick, Myrtle and Wykoff-- regardless of pedestrian peril and noisy chaos. Part of it is the light, which is finally freed from the confines of the El. Bursting forth, the light brought these halloween sugar crazed festivities into a new light.

Opera Dock

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

These blurry shots are from the Vertical Player Repertory's production of Puccini's Il Tabarro. What set this production apart is clearly location, on board the Mary H. Whalen, moored at American Stevedorings piers. We were happy just to get into this sealed off safety zone, let alone catch our first opera of the season. The sound was surprisingly good for being open air. The opera itself, beautifully set and very well performed. But I am no opera critic, just a fan. The sound of tugboats, and helicopters, at once a distraction, was also a reminder of our wacky environs. We biked...

Gowanus Glimpses: Brooklyn Bridges

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Some shots from last weekend’s Gowanus Canal Tour with BCUE, led by the very able Daniel Wiley. I suppose that this also serves very well as an addendum to the Bridges of New York City Hamilton Street Bridge The Ninth Street Bridge Smith and Ninth Street station over 9th St, the highest subway station in the city. The Third St. Bridge. The wet end of Bond St. A bridge too far. The Carroll Street Bridge, circa 1880, is the the oldest on the canal. It also was the one that was malfunctioning that day. So I can't show you the flushing tunnel at...

Anyplace, Brooklyn

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Metrotech is a section of Brooklyn that I never really thought to photograph before. I have to admit that there was nothing to my catch my eye in it’s featureless corporate landscape. Are you smiling for the cameras? But that’s exactly what caught the eye of documentarian Samara Smith, the creator of the anyplace Brooklyn Walking Tour. Is it really being in Brooklyn if you never touch the ground? As a part of the 2007 Conflux festival, Smith has created a soundscaped exploration of the many transformations that have remade this corner of old Brooklyn into a gleaming and sterile facade...

She Must Have Been So Happy...

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

...when she dropped this on the sidewalk.

Conflux Festival: CrippleBush Ghost Tour

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Geofreaks awake! Conflux festival, a yearly celebration of psycho-geography, is once again returning to the streets of Brooklyn. My must-see for this year is the Cripple Bush Ghost tour, a text message based walking tour of space and memory in Williamsurg and Greenpoint. For more on the festival, check out teh full schedule: www.confluxfestival.org/conflux2 . . . 7/conflux2007-program.pdf See ya'll at the Sunday night walking tour: www.confluxfestival.org/conflux2 . . . 7/cripplebush-ghost-tour/

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