One of the strangest exhibits I hope to ever see, in the Brooklyn Museum at the end of 2009. It's called "Reception" by Vadis Turner, and attempts to turn the notion of a wedding reception on its head using inappropriate found art. Look it up, and prepare to be over 18 if you do. I'll mention two items in the exhibit - Bibles and birth control pills.


The new Barclays Center takes shape by Atlantic Terminal in 2011. The Nets moved in a year later.


One of the sights of Coney Island is the original Nathan's at Surf and Stillwell Avenues, home of the annual hot dog eating contest that Kobayashi made famous (and vice versa) after doubling the record set the prior year upon his 2011 arrival. The seafood aspect has been largely forgotten. (Also forgotten, despite being current history, is that Joey Chestnut's reign is both longer than Kobayashi's and involves much higher hot dog totals, despite the time limit being reduced from 12 to 10 minutes.)


Up to Greenpoint, some decorative architecture along Meeker Avenue. I'm convinced they can supply your building.

An ancient standpipe in the area.


Driving north on Kingsland Avenue, I am definitively confronted by the MILLER BUILDING. It's a former varnish works at the corner of Greenpoint Avenue. Varnish is combustible and the old building burned in 1911, so it was rebuilt in very fireproof concrete in the following years and easily survived the Standard Oil fire of 1919. It's now a very fireproof warehouse.


The Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant is opposite the MILLER BUILDING. It may be a crappy subject to end on, but it's a pretty sleek new complex, upgraded starting in 1998. Apparently its visitor center has a waterfall inside. I mean, it has a visitor center! Pretty sleek.


Looking east from around the U.N. Building in Manhattan at the converted piers around 46th-48th Avenues in Brooklyn. The neon Pepsi sign dates to 1940, with renovations along the way.

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