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Entries Tagged as 'Signs Under Siege'

Say What–Severed Alternate Side Sign

April 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Severed Alternate Side Sign

Was it murdered by construction equipment, a car or vandalism? In any case, this alternate side parking sign is very dead. It had lived on N. 9 Street between Havemeyer and Berry. RIP.

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Say What–Hanging Parking Sign

April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Hanging Parking Sign

There are actually a couple of interest things about this sign, beside the hanging alternate side element. First, is the background, which is Grand Ferry Park. Work is going on and blogger INSIJS reports the park is supposed to reopen by late April. The other is the “Help keep our beaches clean” part of the […]

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Say What–Hiding Fifth Ave. One Way

April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This one-way specimen comes to us from Fifth Avenue and Baltic Streets in Park Slope. It can be found hiding under scaffolding surrounding a building that has been in ruins since a Chinese restaurant went up in flames a couple of years ago.

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Say What–Prospect Park Directions Edition

April 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Prospect Park Directions Edition

From the traffic insanity known as Grand Army Plaza. Hope no one without a clue about finding Prospect Park actually has to do so.

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Tags: Prospect Park · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Arty in Gowanus

April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Arty in Gowanus

This isn’t so much an altered or battered street sign as it is an arty street sign, but we like those too. It comes from Union Street near Third Avenue in Gowanus, mere steps from the Holiday Inn Express.

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Tags: Gowanus · Signs Under Siege · Street Art

Say What–One Way Dangle Edition

April 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–One Way Dangle Edition

There are two interesting things about these signs, which come from the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. One of them is the dangling one way sign. The other is the fact that Miss Heather, who supplied us with the photo, notes that the street is “Sandford Street,” not “Sanford Street.”

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Tags: Bed-Stuy · Clinton Hill · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Pedestrian Upside Down Sign

April 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Pedestrian Upside Down Sign

The Pedestrian Upside Down Sign above comes from 147 Maujer Street in East Williamsburg. It was sent our way by Miss Heather, who also provided the shot of the actual pedestrians below. Whether one cares for the building in question is definitely a matter of taste. We’ll simply say that it is not to the […]

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Tags: Greenpoint · Signs Under Siege

Say What–No Standing Hanging

March 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–No Standing Hanging

From Dumbo comes a No Standing sign that has seen better days and is now just sort of hanging there.

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Tags: Dumbo · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Crooked Pedestrians

March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Crooked Pedestrians

Always look out for the crooked pedestrian crossing sign, especially on S. 3 Street in Williamsburg.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–One Hour Parking…

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–One Hour Parking…

From Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. There is nothing we can add with words to this photo.

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Signs Under Siege

Say What–No Standing or Hanging

March 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–No Standing or Hanging

We love it when No Standing signs are themselves, no longer standing, so to speak. This one is hanging around on N. 3 Street near Berry in Williamsburg.

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Say What–Find the Quadriad Stop Sign

March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Find the Quadriad Stop Sign

The scaffolding around the Quadriad Development site on Bedford Avenue at N. 3 Street in Williamsburg is up and the Stop Sign…well, it’s still visible, as long as one is not in a hurry and looks carefully.

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Tags: Quadriad · Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–Bent on Flatbush

March 25th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Bent on Flatbush

[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/www.britinbrooklyn.com] This photo from Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch, shows just how nice a photo of compromised street signs can be. It’s from Flatbush and 6th Avenue and has clearly seen better days.

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Tags: Prospect Heights · Signs Under Siege

Say What–No Pigs Allowed

March 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–No Pigs Allowed

In addition to the Stop Sign and the One-Way Sign, there are No Pigs Allowed on Ten Eyck Street. The pic comes from Miss Heather, who also hit us off with this one last week.

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Tags: East Williamsburg · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Way on Powers

March 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Way on Powers

Miss Heather, who submitted this image of a a sign on Powers Street in East Williamsburg, notes that each neighborhood seems to have a specialty. Her Greenpoint neighbors enjoy destroying and discarded couches. People in Bed-Stuy appear to excel at destroying pay phones. The good people of East Williamsburg, meanwhile, she says, do very, very […]

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Tags: East Williamsburg · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Alternate Side Chopped

March 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Alternate Side Chopped

This downed sign is from Second Street near Smith in Carroll Gardens. It is hard to tell what caused it to have this fate, but it might be safe to venture that it was an unfortunate vehicular interaction.

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Tags: Carroll Gardens · Signs Under Siege

Say What: Curb Your Piggy Edition

March 20th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What: Curb Your Piggy Edition

There are so many elements at work in this sign from Ten Eyck Street in East Williamsburg that it’s hard to know where to start. Well, we know that we need to start with the Curb Your Piggy element, which is superb, but we also have to note the damaged one-way signs and tagged Stop […]

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Tags: East Williamsburg · Signs Under Siege

Say What–No Parking Dog

March 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–No Parking Dog

Sometimes, it’s the “private” no parking signs that suffer the most interesting fates. We like the written over No Parking and the dog sticker. It’s from Williamsburg.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–Meeker Mystery Sign

March 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Meeker Mystery Sign

It is face down on Meeker Avenue and may have been the victim of a traffic accident. It appears to have been in this condition for a while, given the dust and grit that have accumulated. Then again, on Meeker Avenue in the Burg beneath the BQE, that could happen in a matter of days.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–Keep Intersection…Something…

March 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Keep Intersection…Something…

This very stickered sign comes from Williamsburg on Union Avenue near the BQE. It used to call on drivers to keep the intersection clear.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–Hanging One Way

March 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Hanging One Way

This one-way at Roebling and N. 10 in Williamsburg was a victim of high winds, we think. Either that or we finally noticed it because it was making a lot of noise blowing back and forth.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg

Say What–Park Slope Blows in Anger Edition

March 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Park Slope Blows in Anger Edition

This is easily the most enjoyable altered sign we’ve seen in a long time. It comes from Seventh Avenue in Park Slope at Carroll Street. We honestly don’t know how long it’s been like this, but we enjoyed finally noticing if it’s been that way for a while. Superb.

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Tags: Park Slope · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Banged Up Drawbridge

March 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

You simply don’t see a lot of drawbridge signs in New York, but there are a number of them in Gowanus, where there are five drawbridges over the Canal, all of which open and close from time to time. This signs is on Ninth Street as one approaches the Ninth Street Bridge under the Smith-9th […]

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Tags: Gowanus · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Alternate Side Down in the Slope

March 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Alternate Side Down in the Slope

Park Slope is not the best place in Brooklyn to find violated street signs in Brooklyn, but one does come across them from time to time. This one is from Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue.

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Tags: Park Slope · Signs Under Siege

Say What–Gorilla Stop Sign

March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Say What–Gorilla Stop Sign

This stop sign, with added gorilla, comes from N. 9 Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. We believe it is of fairly recent origin.

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Tags: Signs Under Siege · Williamsburg