Results tagged “present”

Re-Brooklyn, which hosts images comparing past and present day buildings in the borough, has just posted a cleaner shot of the Norwegian Evangelical Church... or as you may know it: Strauss Auto. The interesting thing here is that if you look at the trim on the side wall, you'll see that the building is the same. An old NYPL image points out the original photo was taken in 1930, and the structure is on 15th Street and 4th Avenue.

'Tis the season for wrapping presents, so Scotch Tape had its annual "Scotch Brand Most Gifted Wrapper" competition at Rockefeller Center yesterday. The ultimate champion was Alton Dulaney, who works at Kate's Paperie as director of visual merchandizing (he's a ringer!) and won a $10,000 cash prize. ">Speaking to the Daily News, Dulaney said of his win against a field of wrappers from across the country, "I did it for New York."

Ready to take a depressing walk down memory lane? The somewhat-recently launched Re-Brooklyn blog compares side-by-side photos of locations in their past and present state. The latest entry is of the Broken Angel home on Quincy and Downing Streets (pictured). While that image isn't too shocking, there are some where, say, a Norwegian Evangelical Church is now an auto repair shop, or a row of houses on Snediker and Belmont Avenues has been demolished. [via Brownstoner]

It didn't even take one month for the public to put an end to the wooden girl in Greenpoint. To recap: a street artist put up the piece as a birthday present for his girlfriend, who had moved to Connecticut and was pining for her old neighborhood. Friends and strangers alike were encouraged to pose with the painted lady; the photo project can be found here.