Coming home to my apartment in Park Slope, I thought: gee, I appropriated the name of one of Brooklyn’s main streets as the title for my blog. Instead of blabbing on about sociology, my travails in grad school, my mounting irritation with my HIV education class – shouldn’t I try to write about Brooklyn, or at least Park Slope, where I live?
I pop into Steven Berlin Johnson’s blog now and then, I know he’s doing this outside.in project which looks intriguing but, I have to confess, a bit cluttered with not-very-interesting posts about traffic accidents, visits by the mayor, the usual comments on the strollerati, and the like (though I’m glad I did pop in this evening – I just found out about a new Korean restaurant down the street from me, around a corner that I rarely take.); and I’ve just spent a half hour spent perusing the neighborhood sites. Unsurprisingly, I find that I’m surrounded by eco-friendly, artistic types. Of course, Park Slope’s notoriously progressive values are why I moved here – though I’m not nearly as eco-friendly as I ought to be, and have hardly an artistic shred in my bone (though I do love to go to, criticize movies). Then I came across travisruse.com. The photographs are brilliant and for anyone who takes the subways everyday, as I do, they capture a fundamental part of what it means to live and be situated in New York. Well, before I get all phenomenological, take a look at today’s shot (7/19) from the Q train, my favorite subway line in all of New York (from Coney Island to Carnegie Hall).
