Brooklyn
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Artificial Legs on Livingston Street
I was walking to pick up a fire hydrant permit in Brooklyn yesterday when I noticed a really interesting ghost sign on the side of 208 Livingston Street: For anyone unfamiliar with the term, a “ghost sign” is an ad for a company that no longer exists. This one is an ad for a company…
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Exploring The Abandoned Pfizer Chemical Plant in Brooklyn
Today, Pfizer is the largest pharmaceutical company in the world, with dozens of factories and research labs across the country, over 100,000 employees, and hundreds of billions in revenue. Amazing to think it all got started in a now-empty factory on the border between South Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy. Pfizer was founded as a fine chemicals…
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Awesome Brooklyn Truck Looks Like A Subway Car
I noticed something really cool while driving home through Greenpoint the other night… Some guy painted his truck to look like a subway car! Not only is the train layout pretty darn accurate… …it’s made even cooler by the awesome 70’s/80’s-style graffiti on its sides! Seriously, how great is this? Both sides of the train…
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Remembering A Plane Crash In Brooklyn
Driving into work this morning, I heard on the news that today marks the 50th anniversary of one of the worst airline disasters in history: the mid-air collision of two planes over Staten Island. Of the 128 passengers and crew members aboard the two flights, all were killed save for a 10 year old boy…