"Some people, them like cats, and others, them like dogs. Me, I like the birds". The "Bird Man" of Lenox Rd. (as his neighbor called him with a hoot and smirk) is the local eccentric in this corner of Brooklyn, at Lenox Rd. and 43rd St. While most eccentrics keep their habits bundled up behind closed doors, the Bird Man (he would not share his name or let me take a picture of him)puts it out there for all to see, surrounding the outside of his property with his obsession--to make life better for neighborhood birds. While most might find it...

Losing Soup

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

When you latch onto something good in NYC, you have to hold on tight. That goes all the more for Chinese food. And for my wife and I, hot and sour soup. Its just so amazingly different at every different cheap take out place. While in most, it amounts to spicy snot,in quite a few, its an essential treat. We lost the best one two years ago, a rich red Szechuan concoction with shredded pork, form Best Wok at Fulton and Lafayette. That was hard. For weeks, I'd find myself going back, checking the shuttered doors to see that, maybe...

Bushwick: You Could Cut Yourself on That Thing

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

The absurd angle of this building at the corner of Dekalb and Myrtle--under the M line--is itself a measure of the extent to which the Bushwick real estate market has shot up to bizarre heights in the last few years. Traffic islands; who builds on triangular traffic islands in the city? This one stood empty for years, full of trash. But no longer. Someone is building some sort of business here now. Wow. Watch out, you might cut yourself. On the building; on the market.

Bushwick: the Next Hot Neighborhood?

author: upfromflames : Brooklyn, NY

I found this poster on a vacant lot (that is part of the West Bushwick urban renewal area). It purports itself to be a sort of conceptual piece, asking for people to write their thoughts on it... Is it just a ploy from a sly marketeer? History and real estate market aside, just what is it that makes Bushwick the next hot neighborhood that it is being called? PS: if you are the person responsible for these posters, let us know what you were thinking...

Gowanus: The Truth About Gentrification

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

I saw this flag waving ominously in the blue sky above gentrifying Gowanus, and that's when I realized that my greatest fears were coming to pass. Not only are rich, white, outsiders moving into poor and working class communities to raise prices and displace residents, they have a more insidious agenda: To subvert local laws with an socialist, internationalist agenda put forward by the UN. If they had their way, these gentrifiers would give up local control to an array of blue hats and blue helmets and take away our dearly cherished traditions; Brooklyn Queens Day would be just the...

Broken Records on a Rainy Day

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Found this outside a school, at Central and Eldert. I am impressed that these kids found some records to throw out! Maybe they know something more about the history of the recording industry now, probably not.

Vestigal Device: What Was This For?

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Hanging recalcitrant hooligans? Sides of meat? Future hopes for the 20 century?

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