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Quidnuncs at Brighton Beach

BY Author igoma | Posted on May 30, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Definition, Quidnunc

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Culminant: View from window

BY Author Francesca | Posted on May 29, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Culminant

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Holus Bolus…Kind of…

BY Author longhair | Posted on May 29, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Holus Bolus, Places, Words

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Jerrybuild of STAPLER MAN!

BY Author wheresmycar97 | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Jerry-Build

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Justine’s Audile

BY Author j.was.here11 | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Audile, Brooklyn, Definition

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Georgic: Food Co-op… CONTINUED!

BY Author unusualstudent | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Georgic, Places, Words

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Diglot Babes

BY Author diglotbabes | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Diglot

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Audile: Rain on Union Street

BY Author Erik Schurink | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Audile, Brooklyn

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Rete: View from the Q train

BY Author Erik Schurink | Posted on May 28, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Brooklyn, Rete

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Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel, a rete of steel—a radial zigzag; an arced fragment of New York’s subway rete; the red of an otherwise invisible electrical rete; and the window pane made visible by refraction, read by retes of rods, cones, and nerves.

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Typhlology Fear of Tunnels

BY Author Leslie Thornton | Posted on May 26, 2008 | FILED UNDER Categories Manhattan, Typhlology

reminds me of worrying in San Francisco  fear of tunnelsLeslie Thornton 

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