On the corner of 5th Avenue and Carroll Street in Park Slope sits
this fine 1886 building, the current home of Moutarde. 1886
Was also the year Viceroy Dufferin announced British dominion
over the Burmese territories of King Thibaw.

On Saturday the Brooklyn Flea was inside the Williamsburg Bank.

As construction continues at the Atlantic Center, Eric over at No Land Grab sent a tip that the scaffolding on the facade had come down, revealing the huge glass entrance. Eric also noticed the large blocks placed around the perimeter of the center, presumably the work of Khufu.

A construction worker told me the work should be finished this week.

In Park Slope.

Just across the road from the Floyd Bennett Airfield on Barren Island is a short trail that leads down to Dead Horse Bay. Back when Barren Island was actually an island, it was home to many horse-rendering plants. Some 70 years later, bones still wash up on the beaches and can be seen among other flotsam and jetsam. From the New York Times' "F.Y.I." section, 1999:

"From the 1850's until the 1930's, the carcasses of dead horses and other animals from New York City streets were used to manufacture glue, fertilizer and other products at the site. The chopped-up, boiled bones were later dumped into the water. The squalid bay, then accessible only by boat, was reviled for the putrid fumes that hung overhead. A rugged community of laborers, many of them Irish, Polish and Italian immigrants, lived in relative isolation on neighboring Barren Island, which shared the bay's unsavory reputation....The number of horse carcasses in Dead Horse Bay dwindled as the automobile grew in popularity, and by the 1920's only one rendering plant remained. Around that time, the city began dumping its garbage at sea, and the Barren Islanders themselves began to disappear, though some diehards remained until the 1940's. Sand, coal and garbage were used as landfill to connect Barren Island to the Brooklyn mainland in the 1920's, and the Barren Island Airport, later renamed Floyd Bennett Field, opened in 1927." 

This mouse has a glass heart that used to light up, and a tail that used to wag.

This structure under the BQE looks out onto the Gowanus canal.

Just by the Q Train exit on Flatbush and 7th there's an American Apparel. Up until 2004 it used to be where you could go to the pictures.