ERIC B & RAKIM "Follow The Leader" (August 1988) - there have been a jillion videos, movies etc filmed in "Dumbo," Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn. THIS is & always will be the GOAT, Scott Kalvert director; Plymouth St at 3:23 for orientation youtube.com/watch?v=95gP3m-u…

RECORDING MR. PYNCHON by the late great Jim Knipfel @believermag June 2017-- a long excellent essay on Thomas Pynchon audiobooks, including the * two * recordings of "Gravity's Rainbow" by George Guidall... wait, what, the two?! thebeliever.net/logger/recor…

PROPOSED RED HOOK TO BATTERY VEHICULAR TUNNEL - Map of proposed tunnel from Brooklyn to Governor's Island to Manhattan*, which was indorsed yesterday by Borough President Ingersoll, the Maritime Association &... - Brooklyn Eagle 10 Mar 1935 * from Hamilton Avenue to West Street

IN OLD RED HOOK - 238 Conover St. looking southwest at Beard Street c. 1940. Or more properly Middle Ages? Some sections in decline, others maintaining, huge public housing project recently arisen. On the Point: still time to walk a horse.

VAN BRUNT ELEC. & MFG. CO. INC. MARINE & INDUSTRIAL SPECIALTIES - 256 Van Brunt St. near Delavan Street [Red Hook] c. 1940. Multiple signs here. Machine Works up by cornice, VAN BRUNT ELEC. & MFG. CO. INC. on window at street level. Scrupulous with periods.

MOBY DICK - CHAPTER IV - THE COUNTERPANE Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored...

BROWNSVILLE, THE HOME OF 16,000 HEBREWS, is today observing the day of atonement, or Yom Kippur, which is given up to fasting and prayer. This is the quietest day of the year in Brownsville. - Brooklyn Eagle 17 Sep 1896

FUCK YOU, I'M NOT MOVING, or The Holdout. 386 Pleasant Ave. between East 120th and 121st Streets, East Harlem, c. 1940. Pleasant Avenue north of E. 120 razed / demapped c. 1954 for Wagner Houses NYCHA projects.

Firefighters hose down blood in Howard Playground in [Brownsville] Brooklyn on Saturday morning after two people [men] were shot and killed late Friday. Photo: Emma Seiwell / New York Daily News. nydailynews.com/2026/09/12/2…

TO GRANDPA DON FROM VIENNA - Donald H. Gregory, 62, bond broker at Cantor Fitzgerald, 104th floor, North Tower, 1 WTC Dad, twenty-four years ago, I told you I loved you for the last time. I have kept your voice and love in my heart. Your grandchildren hear all about you...

Sep. 11, 2025: Dominican Republic flags placed in names David Bartolo Rodriguez-Vargas, 44, and Clara Victorine Hinds, 52 (though Hinds was from Trinidad). Both worked at Windows on the World in the North Tower on 9/11. Photo: @BrooklynConf

MY LOVING BROTHER CARLOS R. LILLO - FDNY Paramedic September 11th, 2001 - 9/11 2025 photo @BrooklynConf For more on the life & legacy of Carlos R. Lillo see 911memorial.org/connect/blog…

GROUND ZERO, 9/11 2025: Family of Alejandro Cordero, 23, Marsh & McLennan accountant, North Tower, 1 WTC. In Washington Heights, where he lived with his Dominican parents & brothers, West 164th St. between Broadway & Fort Washington Ave. is co-named Alejandro Cordero Way.

9/11 2025: Family of Jamaican-born Brooklynite, Keith Broomfield, 49, a mechanic for Advent Industrial, a company that builds broadcast transmitters, including those atop North Tower, 1 World Trade Center. T-shirts show Broomfield with angel wings: “Gone but never forgotten.”

IDEAL RESTAURANT & BAR - 72 Van Dyke St. northeast corner Richards Street [Red Hook] c. 1940. Note variation in signage between neon & wall painting Neighbor to [?.] FEIN SEAMEN SUPPLIES & HABERDASHER

SMALL HOUSES OF RED HOOK c. 1940, construction dates late 19th century? Earlier? All gone today: 24 Wolcott St b/w Dwight & Richards 769 Hicks St. near West 9th Street 165 Beard St. b/w Van Brunt & Conover

NUDISTS SEEK PLACE IN BROOKLYN SUN - Gymnasium to Be Established Here and a Colony Bathing Beach is Planned for Long Island, 'Martyr for the Cause' Discloses "Yes sir," said A.W. Flynn... "I am convinced that Brooklyn has a great future for nudism." - Eagle 12 Sep 1933

CLAMY DAVE'S 192 Washington St. southwest corner of Fulton Street, Manhattan, c. 1940. A produce store adjacent Washington Market, future site of World Trade Center. [242 Fulton St. alternate address] 2nd photo looking north towards New York Telephone Building, which remains.

BOTANICA VIEJO LAZARO - 2220 Pitkin Ave near southeast corner Van Siclen Avenue [East New York] c. early 1980s. In 1940, it was M. Maten Painter & Decorator.