Articles from Peter

Bushwick Tracks

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2009

The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Friday, May 1st, 2009

Prairie Brooklyn

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Red Hook Trolleys

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Sub-Station 2

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

King Doughnuts & Laundry

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Brownsville Bike/Record Shop

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Monday, April 27th, 2009

Asstroland

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Brownsville AME Zion Church

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Southern Comfort Church Offering

author: Peter : New York, NY
Friday, April 24th, 2009

Crane Catch Plane

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Off-Track Betting

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Nightmare Fodder

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Left Turn Only, No Left Turn

author: Peter : Newark, NJ
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

Tinytown 2

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

SPAM® Single Classic

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Monday, April 20th, 2009

The Red Hook Grain Terminal

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Artichokes

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Friday, April 17th, 2009

Chinatown Rooftop Spot

author: Peter : New York, NY
Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Polar Secrets

author: Peter : Queens, NY
Thursday, April 16th, 2009

Bushwick Crime Statistics

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 16th, 2009

CBS Food Prod. Corp.

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

The Phantom Guns of Wadsworth

author: Peter : Staten Island, NY
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Hell's Mouth

author: Peter : Staten Island, NY
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

XXX HOT!!!

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Monday, April 13th, 2009

Richmond Ice Company

author: Peter : Staten Island, NY
Sunday, April 12th, 2009

New Asha Sri Lankan Restaurant

author: Peter : Staten Island, NY
Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Naptime in Newark

author: Peter : Newark, NJ
Thursday, April 9th, 2009

NYPD Buffoonery

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Rosebank Yacht Club

author: Peter : Staten Island, NY
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Bushwick Tracks

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Not pictured: a heap of used condom packages. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC...

The Ghost Ships of Coney Island Creek

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Behind the tall grass and trees of Calvert Vaux Park in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, hidden from the soccer players on Sundays, is a nautical graveyard. Burned and rotting hulks of abandoned vessels jut from the dirty beach into the silted, sluggish water of Coney Island Creek. The ribs of other ships emerge from the shallows like bones... (NYT) Steam engine boiler The wood having rotted away, all that remains of this prow is the cast-iron bow piece spiked with giant rusty nails An underwater hole in a submerged tugboat's deck The infamous abandoned submarine, with Coney Island's famous parachute drop in the background Now a resting...

Prairie Brooklyn

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn (and most of Long Island) once constituted the only examples of 'prairie' in America's Northeast. Every now and then, you can see remnants of it poking through, in this case, near the Grain Terminal in Red Hook, Brooklyn...

Red Hook Trolleys

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Trolley hulks rust at the end of Van Brunt street, behind the Red Hook Fairway in Red Hook, Brooklyn... More reading: www.forgotten-ny.com/TROLLEYS/redhook/redhook.html gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/2006/ . . . ok-trolleys-up-close.html

Sub-Station 2

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

The Long Island Rail Road's abandoned Sub-Station 2 provides a foreboding backdrop in East New York. Brooklyn, NYC...

King Doughnuts & Laundry

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Apparently, Brownsville Brooklyn likes multitasking. Here, you can buy records while having your bike repaired, while at King Doughnuts, you can munch on some treats while washing your laundry...

Brownsville Bike/Record Shop

author: Peter : Brooklyn, NY

Brownsville Bike Shop West Indian & American Records This could possibly be my new favorite store in Brooklyn. It sells two of my favorite things. Brownsville, Brooklyn, NYC...