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Picture of a Sign of the Week: Punching

March 17th, 2008 · by Andrew · No Comments

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Liquidating Sale

March 4th, 2008 · by Holly · No Comments

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Dumbo Beat: Ways of Seeing edition

January 8th, 2008 · by Holly · 1 Comment

The January heat inspired us to revisit the streets of Dumbo. Below, updates on our favorite neighborhood, and a Gawker-stalker esque photo of one of NYC’s favorite gallerists.

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Will Smith stands with 801a

December 7th, 2007 · by Andrew · 1 Comment

I have no idea what this movie is about, although from what I understand it is a remake and it is science fiction. I’m 99% sure Will Smith is in it.I am more excited about this work of art than anything else in the world right now, however, because in this movie some kind of [...]

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so delightful

November 26th, 2007 · by Holly · 2 Comments

I never noticed this sign until a couple of months ago, and now it’s one of my favorites. This building in Greenpoint was until recently a 99 cents store, but once it closed and removed its awning, we could see the awesomeness that came before. Man, I wish I could have eaten a sundae from [...]

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Yum.

November 6th, 2007 · by Andrew · No Comments

The official cuisine of Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

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Found Money

October 24th, 2007 · by Andrew · No Comments

This was on the ground near the Bergen St F stop this morning. Not really a sign in the intended sense. You’ll need to click to enlarge to see the joke.

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DUMBO BEAT: Where signs come from

October 19th, 2007 · by Holly · No Comments

I have been following the progress of the window-painting process for Indigo Handloom on Jay Street. It’s actually quite a cool process:

First, the painter etches the rough outlines of his lettering and all the elements into the glass window with a glass etching tool. He uses this as a guideline for actually painting everything. On [...]

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An Idea Long Overdue

October 16th, 2007 · by Andrew · 1 Comment

They’re pilot testing these on the sidewalks at the exits to busy subway stations. The only weird thing is that now we’re making official the idiosyncratic N/W/E/S directions that New Yorkers use. (Manhattan is practically turned 45° clockwise from the compass directions.)

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Picture of a Sign of the Week: Inaugural Edition

October 16th, 2007 · by Andrew · No Comments

Seen at the Denver train station.

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