Trifecta

Taken along Surf Avenue in Coney Island.

Up to 70% Off Creepiness

Taken on the Upper East Side, near 59th and 2nd.

Get a Sandwich where the Wires Cross

Taken on Columbia Street in Red Hook.

Savings

Best Hou ekeeping

I always love a good game of store front hangman, this time it was on Avenue A on the Lower East Side, bordering the East Village.

Essex Beauty

Near Essex and Stanton on the Lower East Side.

The Ominous Bodega

 

The local bodega and deli, the ubiquitous New York City icon.  They tend to get a bad reputation for being over priced or unclean.  I find them quite useful for late night convenience and don’t go in with the same expectations of a full size grocery store.  I came up with the idea of this humor-themed post when I joined and added photos to a few groups on Flickr centering around Bodegas.

Bed Stuy, Do or Deli.  This bodega is around to corner of my apartment; I was fiending for a zebra cake around 2am (and yes, I was completely sober) when I came upon this scene.  I knew immediately that my partially hydrogenated snack run was canceled, making the best of it, I pulled out my camera and snapped this photograph; I did so quite stealthily, owing to the fact that the NYPD is not exactly the most camera friendly organization in existence.

Do Not Resuscitate Deli.  This bodega is located in the Sunset Park area of Brooklyn on 4th Avenue.  I spotted the D, N, and R trains and along came the title.

God Bless Deli.  Some people may see ‘God Bless’ as comforting, but I tend to view it as alarming.  Think about it, God Bless, like God Speed is something that many would say to someone that's about to embark on some risky endeavor like going into battle, having heart surgery, or riding a bicycle in New York City.  Taken from Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Terminal Deli.  Yeah, I know, I recently used this one…  Taken in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Guard Dog Deli.  Muscular dog, ready to pounce on and maul unsuspecting shoplifters.  Taken on Myrtle Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

Local Militia Deli.  Gotta keep ‘King of England out of your face’ – Borrowed from Krusty the Clown.  Taken near Broadway and 9th in Manhattan.

Diamond in the Rough

Bored waiting for the bus?  Take our your camera.  Some of my finest shots have been taken while waiting for a bus.  This could only happen of course, when I finally remembered to carry my camera with me today.  Taken at the corner of Bowery and Hester, near Little Italy, err, becoming more of Chinatown everyday.

Flats Fixed

Who can resist quirky storefronts?  I know I can’t!  Obviously, at the corner of Park and Franklin; this is an area in which three neighborhood of Brooklyn meet.  Those neighborhoods are Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, and Bedford Stuyvesant.

Nelly's Flowers

Taken at the corner of Broadway and Union in Williamsburg, Brooklyn...

Bowl at the Shell

Take on Shell Road and Avenue X in the West Brighton area of Brooklyn...

Realty Behind Bars

Perhaps a metaphor for America’s ongoing real estate situation…Nah, I just like the composition.  Taken on Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

MoneyWedge

And just what where would a seedy street corner be without a check cashing establishment, a head shop, sex shop, a liquor stop veiled in 2 inches of bullet proof polycarbonate glass (admittedly, there’s one of these a few blocks from my place of residence), or all of the above? This mini-flatiron structure sits along side the Gowanus Expressway in Red Hook, Brooklyn…

South Side Auto Parts

Yellow + red = Safe Photograph. Taken from Broadway on the south side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Purves, Dykes, Rubber...Made Here

Now where did my mind wonder off to today?  Isn’t it obvious?  Jackson and Purves in Long Island City, Queens to be exact.  Anyone really think I would be so sophomoric as to assign innuendos to this photograph?  That’s a rhetorical question…Please don’t answer that ;)

Brooklyn Crazy

Spring shoppers on Broadway on the south side of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Taking it in…

The Marcy Avenue subway station entrance in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; taken from Broadway.

Umber, L is Optional

Taken from 4th Avenue between the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Boerum Hill, just south of Downtown.

Cold Yellow Day

Hope you like yellow!  Taken near 1st and 1st in East Village, Manhattan.

Slope Canyon

Architecture that is iconic of many street scenes in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slop.  The arterial streets are lined with buildings of this nature, which are a commercial/residential mix and the minor cross streets, which are cladded with historic brownstone homes.