Brooklyn Signage--sign, sign, everywhere's a sign...

lostingreenwoodhts

Subject: Brooklyn Signage--sign, sign, everywhere's a sign...

A new thread from ME since I love to collect interesting, intreging and odd signage from around the Boro. From my own 'hood to Ft. Greene to Coney Island (though we'll be starting a Coney Thread), a signs are welcome.

And the first...right from my own 'nabe:



4th Ave and 24th St., Greenwood Hts.

lostingreenwoodhts

Subject: Borro Park pic

Borro Park, side street off of McDonald Ave.
(wild mosaic tiles...looks like a former municipal building)

lostingreenwoodhts

Subject: Coney Island Pic

Food Vendor's stall on the boardwalk near Dino's
(the sign says it all, it was a good day )

pitu

you probably already know it
but here's a recent comprehensive bit of photoblogging of 4th Ave PS
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET SCENES/4ave/4av.html

lostingreenwoodhts

Yep, had a few conversations with the guy. He does really nice work!

lostingreenwoodhts

I will add that he needs to go further south on 4th...to fill out the Ave's best and worst spots

yavel

Subject: Ho-gie truck on PPW.

lostingreenwoodhts

Wow, totally nutz!

What's in that bread?

grafixguy

i have a tendency to read high cheese stake steaks

brooklyn42

Those Bimbo signs crack me up. They're all over Mexico.

lostingreenwoodhts

HSTS

waxed

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: HSTS

?

lostingreenwoodhts

Flexichick, The letters that jump out at me first...geeze, see, what crappy sign!

shaunkillian

ah, I thought it was some sort of online speak that I don't understand (like "pawned").

Thanks for the clarification.

I do love me some cheesesteak.

grafixguy

clothing boutique in south slope before brand revamp—i had no idea bk=brooklyn

lostingreenwoodhts

evn btr!

sweet tea

i read that as "4play ok".

heh.

grafixguy

off topic since the pic wasn't taken in brooklyn.

lostingreenwoodhts

Shame on you...not in Bklyn

Still very funny.

annaclaire

May as well expand to street/traffic signs, right? This one, in Park Slope, has been slightly edited by person or persons unknown.



This is to say nothing of all the Times Square Shuffle signs in Manhattan!

Edit: I took of these pictures ("Blow Horn in Anger" and "The Shuffle").

grafixguy

beefy looking key


Locksmith on 9th St close to Van Brunt Post Office in PS

grafixguy

Got that?


Somewhere in Red Hook

annaclaire

Do they have a door with a "YES" on it?

grafixguy

AnnaClaire wrote: Do they have a door with a "YES" on it?

I don't think they do. In addition to that, they also need "maybe."

grafixguy

outside of nym hospital

annaclaire

Really more of a "how" than a "what" on 7th Ave & 3rd St.:

stella

I also read it as "high cheese, stake steaks"
Why on Earth do they have that sign about "Shoot hoops not guns" Does the cheese steak place have basketball hoops indoors?

jocelyn

STELLA, the answer to your question is found within this thread:

http://brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=31412&highlight=cheese

prodigalson

Guys, guys -- more photos.

PLEASE!!!

annaclaire

Guys, guys -- more photos.

OK, it isn't really Brooklyn, but at least it's a photo (and funny):

lostingreenwoodhts

keep up the great posts!!!