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Tag Archives: BROOKLYN
Post-Sandy Dispatch from the Land of Normal
SANDY IS A TERRIBLE NAME for a hurricane; it sounds like a girl you dated in high school. This massive hybrid “superstorm” needed a much more formidable name. Medea, maybe, or Zarathustra. It was strange. Here in NYC, there wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN
Tagged BROOKLYN, damage, East Hampton, hurricane, NYC, Prospect Heights, Sandy, Springs, superstorm
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City Mouse Country Mouse
Al fresco dining: one of the chief pleasures of the season. Above, the garden of Brooklyn’s Bedouin Tent restaurant on Atlantic Avenue, with a view of the Belarussian church next door THESE DAYS, I’M BOTH a city mouse and a … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Atlantic Avenue, Bedouin Tent, Botanica Garden Center, BROOKLYN, deutzia, East Hampton, Gardiner's Bay, Gowanus, magnolia, restaurant, spring, Springs
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Brooklyn in Bloom
I CAME BACK TO BROOKLYN after a few days in East Hampton to find the place exploding — florally speaking, that is. Whereas the East End of Long Island is still brown and bleak, except for the relief of roadside … Continue reading
Park Slope A to Z
AT FIRST I THOUGHT this was going to be a hopelessly random post, a mash-up of recent photos I wanted to share but that had no particular organizing principle. Only when I looked at them all together I realized the … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, BROOKLYN
Tagged 19th century, bay windows, botanic gardens, BROOKLYN, brownstones, Cafe Regular, carriage houses, Juventino, mansions, Park Slope, Prospect Park, stained glass
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BrookLens
Photo: Tracy Collins THIS PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS I’m taking is really opening my eyes. Not just to the world around me, but also to how others photograph that same world. I’ve become captivated by the work of two people I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in BLOGGING, BROOKLYN, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged Amy Feezor, Atlantic Yards, BROOKLYN, Brooklyn Heights, brownstone, M-Dashing, photographs, photography, Prospect Heights, Threecee, Tracy Collins
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Cottage Bathroom Underway
THIS IS THE EASIEST RENOVATION I ever lived through. More accurately, the gut job on my cottage bathroom in East Hampton is the first renovation I ever didn’t live through, the first time I’ve had the luxury to be elsewhere … Continue reading
Posted in HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS, RENOVATION
Tagged bathroom, BROOKLYN, contractor, cottage, East Hampton, renovation, Springs
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