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25 Of My Favorite Urban Abstractions of 2011

I’m always looking for interesting abstract images created from every day life in this fine city of New York. Here are 25 of my favorite ones that I took in 2011. The picture above is just rain-soaked newspaper fround on a Manhattan sidewalk.

Spilled and dried latex paint from a Brooklyn sidewalk.

Eagle Street, Greenpoint landscape.

Ikea parking lot, Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The Laboratory.

Sidewalk on the Lower East Side.

McGolrick Park lit up while filming for Boardwalk Empire.

Weathered advertising on Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn

From under the Pulaski Bridge in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Building exterior close-up in London, England.

Rooftop gardening junk.

A wall on East 60th Street, Manhattan.

From Norman Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

The ole Q60 buses that shuttle people across the Queensboro Bridge.

South Williamsburg street pattern.

Rectangular stones on a beach in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Cardboard on Manhattan Avenue.

An aged sign on Clay Street, Greenpoint.

A door on Devoe Street, Brooklyn.

A beautiful wall on Oak Street, Greenpoint.

Unintended assemblage art created with utilitarian interests in Red Hook.

Fire escape shadows on Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint.

Construction debris on Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg.

From a facade being restored in Union Square, New York.

A partly cloudy reflection on the Gotham building on Queens Plaza.

Boardwalk Empire Invades Greenpoint

Our fine neighborhood has once again been taken over by the film industry.

Beginning yesterday, nearly half of all blocks in the McGolrick Heights section of Greenpoint had been orange-coned-off for locals to park their cars and this evening, filming began in the park for HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”.

The Imbecile and his better half took a stroll in the nabe and took some blurry pictures and video (no flash photography, please, they told me).

Old timey cars, smoke machines and fake snow piles made of epsom salt.

And the trees looked amazing in the night time artificial light.

Since I do not have cable, I have not actually seen this show, but some people say that it’s a good show. Any BI readers seen it?

Seeing Pink

Greenpoint, Brooklyn is television studioville.  Fringe lived on my old block for over a year. And The Good Wife is always nearby. Today it’s Boardwalk Empire. Is this show any good? If you live in Greenpoint, especially if you have a car, these flyers all over your streets means there’s slim pickens for parking spots.  Today I saw at least six complete blocks with these pink sheets posted everywhere.  Seeing Julianna Margulies in McGolrick Park last summer was kind of nice, though.