Unless you have school-age kids who had the day off, you might not have even realized that last week we celebrated Brooklyn-Queens Day last Thursday. Originally founded in 1829, the holiday historically hosted a huge parade, seen at right in the photograph which FTLOB contributor Peter Puleo dug up, which features the procession of revelers [...]
June 14, 2010
Now that June is here, we are excited to announce the details of the next For the Love of Brooklyn meet-up! If you’ve never made it out to Coney Island for the annual Mermaid Parade – this is your chance! Come one, come all, and prepare to be amazed by the costumes and floats that [...]
June 12, 2010
Two weekends ago, Luna Park at Coney Island made its debut — finally reopening to the public for the first time since a pair of fires in 1944 closed it down. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out for yourself yet, there’s a great opportunity tomorrow at 11AM as the Save Coney [...]
June 11, 2010
Warm June breeze, street signals light the dark South Slope. If there is a quiet moment in New York City’s most populous borough, it is not going to be found in the Slope. We bike deep into Gowanus. The industry has mostly gone to bed for the evening. It is nice to find a quiet [...]
June 9, 2010
While many of my friends and co-workers escaped the city over Memorial Day weekend this year, I stayed in Brooklyn to relax and enjoy the quiet. Shopping in Manhattan felt like a ghost town and my local grocery store in the South Slope looked like it had been ransacked. I thought practically everyone in my [...]
June 7, 2010
While the weather in Brooklyn this weekend was positively sweltering, it looks like several of the photographers in our Flickr pool had the right idea to hop on the train and hit the beach. Hopefully, you were able to escape the heat too! Check out the shots below for some of our favorites and grab [...]
June 6, 2010
Over the last six months, I’ve been experimenting a lot with medium format photography using my beautiful old Mamiya C330F and a variety of films: negatives and slides alike. The experimentation can be both fun and frustrating, but it’s fascinating to see the results when I get them back from the developer every time. The [...]
May 28, 2010
After my recent trip to explore the Domino Sugar Factory, I found myself wandering through the south part of Williamsburg and admiring the eclectic storefronts. Hat milliners, interior designers, lighting specialists and more display their wares along South 8th Street to the soundtrack of the JMZ trains rumbling a block away. For me, this street [...]
May 26, 2010
Such a beautiful day; I decided to get some fresh air and an iced coffee. I was walking down the street and all of a sudden I hear a loud “boom” followed by flames and smoke shooting out of the manhole behind me. The firemen were already at the scene when the second manhole blew [...]
May 25, 2010
One of my favorite things about exploring Brooklyn is discovering neighborhoods where time seems to stand still. Conspicuously absent are the neon signs of mobile phone stores, the suburban sameness of fast food joints, shiny new cars and boutiques. Corner bodegas still feature their original throwback signs. Brooklynites of a generation past reign their front [...]
June 14, 2010