Deconstruction Font

Brand new “COASTAL PIPELINE” square cement sewers wrappped in caution fencing.

From Nassau Avenue.

20 Pix Of Brix

If you’re a regular reader of Brooklyn Imbecile, you’ll know that I have a bit of a bricks fetish.

I love the pairing of a geometric grid construction coupled with organic, non-rectangular signs of wear and tear, weathering and climate-based chemical reactions.

These bricks come from part of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in Dumbo, Brooklyn, at York & Adams Streets near the Manhattan Bridge.

Here’s 16 more super saturated deteriorating bricks just for you my friend…

 

More special bricks here, here, here, here, here, but definitely not here.

Giant City Lego

From Houston Street, Manhattan.

 

Maspeth Creek Disaster

At the dead end intersection of 58th Road & 47th Street in Maspeth, Queens, this is the water’s edge.

Behind a parking lot to a NYC DOT facility, I found this opening into one of the most heavily polluted areas in NYC.

The ground, air and water here have been devastated by years of environmental violations and neglect.

Anyone wanna go for a swim? Perhaps their final swim?

Business as usual…

It’s hard to imagine that to this day anyone is enforcing any EPA laws here.

This place could be beautiful if anyone decided to take care of it.

But then again, I suppose if it was beautiful here, am insanely rich mayor might allow greedy developers to build ugly ass condos that would be lived in by douche bag bankers from Jersey and Michigan.

Maybe this dump is paradise.

Welcome to Maspeth country.

Sloppy Imitating Art

I love this seven panel Abstract Expressionism /Minimalist piece created in Maspeth, Queens to prevent people from parking on their dirt.

You might see sloppy sign making, but I see the likes of American painter, Clyfford Still, like these two paintings below..

 

Super Exhaust

From the Second Avenue subway line  construction at E. 69th Street, Manhattan.

Weekend Spread: Legal Tags

From Lower East Side.

So wait, why is graffiti illegal?

Brooklyn & Manhattan is covered with this shit. From the Upper East Side.

Maybe street artists need to start hitting the ground, too?!

Back in the Spring when these amateurs took to the streets literally, I thought it meant some kind of infrastructural construction, but we’re getting into Fall now and nothing’s been done.

It’s everywhere.

Long Island City

Upper East Side

Greenpoint

When NYPD busts street artists they should employee them to create much better underground construction signage than this bullshit beginner slop, right?

Wide Screen

From Jackson Avenue north of the Citibank building.

Fiber Breach

From Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA, Earth, Milky Way.

Queensapalaza

To get to work, I take buses from Greenpoint to the Queensborough Bridge and then I walk briefly across an 8 lane rush hour construction site not unlike being inside of the game of Frogger.  And then a bus to Manhattan.  Queens Plaza always looks trashed, like an all day summer concert passed through it every night. But so, they’re re-building it with Obama money I suppose. But it’s very hard to imagine this place ever looking nice, since it’s also full of ex-cons, speed freaks, cops and strippers every night. Here’s some current pictures of the mess that a cement guy told me will be complete by mid-Summer 2011. Uh-huh.