Brooklyn, NY: Sunset Park neighborhood
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Carpenter bees are great fliers and can hover for long periods; a great opportunity for pictures. Canon R5, 100-400mm + 1.4 (didn’t really need the 1.4). Used the electronic shutter with low level bursts (~12 fps). Some images (not this one) display the rolling shutter/wing curve effect. May want to use the mechanical shutter in the future. Also, I should have done some faster shutter speeds for comparison. Pretty happy with the image none-the-less.
Defonte’s Sandwich Shop in Red Hook, Brooklyn was founded in 1922 by Nick Defonte who emigrated to New York from Mori di Bari, Italy. Since the beginning it has specialized in serving large Italian heroes at first to the longshoremen who worked on the piers along the Brooklyn waterfront and now to everyone who makes the journey to its free-standing green-and-red-painted brick building.
We recently visited @defontes1922 and met the third-generation owner who told us they are celebrating their 100 year anniversary this year and had an enormous eggplant 🍆 parmigiana sandwich which was absolutely delicious. All the sandwiches are huge and come in one-third or one-half hero sizes on fresh Italian bread . To watch our visit to Defonte’s and our visit to a custom neon sign shop @moonsignnyc nearby please check out our JamesandKarla YouTube channel, see direct link below & in bio and IG story.
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Photo by Steven Pisano
Hamilton Avenue, underneath the Gowanus Expressway, from near intersection with Mill Street. (Shot through the windshield of a car.)
Some scenes of Red Hook streets on a walk around to get some fresh air and sunshine during Covid-19.
Van Dyke Street and Richards Street.
Photo by Steven Pisano
Some scenes of Red Hook streets on a walk around to get some fresh air and sunshine during Covid-19.
Ghost bike on Van Dyke Street.
Photo by Steven Pisano
nrhp # 87002297- From their origins as horse-drawn hot lunch carts, diners had evolved during the early 20th century into stationary, yet movable, fixtures of the developed urban landscape of the urban Northeast. The increasing use of the automobile during the 1920s for intercity travel brought them into the countryside. Manufacturers offered prefabricated models with lessons in management, giving entrepreneurs the chance to get into the restaurant business with less capital than it usually took.
In 1925, Lou Dubois of Kingston, across the Hudson River from Red Hook, bought a popular Silk City Diner from the Paterson Vehicle Company, one of the leading diner manufacturers. He chose to install it first in an area along recently designated Route 9, the Albany Post Road, just north of nearby Rhinebeck called Astor Flats. They called it the Halfway Diner because he thought it was about halfway along Route 9 between New York City and Albany.[1][5][6] Dubois's wife managed the diner while her husband continued to drive trucks for a beer distributor.[1]
Three years later he died, and his family sold the diner to Bert Coons. He moved it to its current location and continued to make a profit. When the Taconic State Parkway was completed through northern Dutchess County after World War II, he moved the diner east, to where Route 199 intersected with the new road, to take advantage of changed transportation patterns. It is not clear whether he changed the name at the same time.[1]
In 1957, with the Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge having restored some of the lost through traffic to Red Hook, Coons moved the diner back to its present location. He rented it to others and then finally sold it in the 1960s, after adding onto it to make it more of a traditional restaurant. A new roadside sign announced its new name to travelers — the Village Restaurant.[1] The current owners refer to it as the Historic Village Diner. It has become a local institution.
from Wikipedia