Here’s a tiny selection of the ton of pics we shot during the Marathon yesterday as it traveled down Fourth Avenue through Park Slope.

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Here is Gomes dos Santos, who came from behind to win the NYC Marathon today, as he ran down Fourth Avenue in Park Slope in the leading pack. More marathon coverage, with a photo slideshow and vids tomorrow.

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Here’s female Marathon winner Paula Radcliffe running down Fourth Avenue in the North Slope this morning at 11:00AM.

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Theses is the lead pack of NYC Marathon runners on Fourth Avenue at Dean Street this morning at they passed by about 11:25. That is winner Gomes dos Santos on the left, in the black cap, at the back of the group.

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It’s Marathon Sunday, so why not post our Brookvid from last year. We’re not quite able to get to this year’s photos and video just this early today.

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No one is injured or run down, which is a good thing.

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One word: Crispy. It is located on Fourth Avenue near Pacific Street and was still there as of yesterday evening. There is a sticker asking the Sanitation Dept. to get rid of it.

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[Photo for GL courtesy of Max Casey] We’re not sure what gets our juices flowing more about this sign: the message itself (which has an odd tone and the obligatory threat) or the scrawled response “I got away.” We’re rather partial to both. It comes from a development on Fourth Avenue about which we’ve written […]

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Anyone that drives on Fourth Avenue or rides in a cab or car service vehicle down it knows that it’s a scary street. (As do pedestrians, of course.) On of the most awful parts of the Fourth Avenue Experience (other than the hideous architecture of some of the new buildings and the wretched planning decisions […]

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This is 225 Fourth Avenue, which used to the be the home of an old SEPTA trolley car next to the Lyceum. Sadly, that was blow torched into scrap metal oblivion. Work is underway on the site however and the construction equipment is digging up a lot of concrete. The property is being developed and […]

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Given the renderings of this building designed by Robert Scarano (we personally wouldn’t place it on the list of his best), we’re not sure we’re anxious to see the black shroud of netting come off of this building on Fourth Avenue so that the real thing can emerge. Yet, work on this structure, which will […]

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We’re actually deeply thankful to whoever originally came up with the concept that Fourth Avenue is Brooklyn’s “New Park Avenue.” Yeah, sure. It’s provided us with a regular supply of laughs and posts. So, this is a car for sale parked on the New Park Avenue at a tire place. If one looks closely, one […]

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They may be trying to call it Brooklyn’s “New Park Avenue,” but Fourth Avenue may be proof of the old adage that it’s very hard to get a tiger to change its stripes. This is the Golden Touch Car Wash, a brave survivor in a Brooklyn that is losing gas stations and car washes left […]

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Consider this a metaphor for the difference between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope. We found a promo poster for this film on Fourth Ave. a while back that said “You Never See it Coming.” On it, someone had written “My foot up your ass.” Here on Fifth Avenue, however, the posts that says […]

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They may be selling $750,000 condos on Fourth Avenue, but it’s still Fourth Ave. This altered movie ad comes from the vicinity of President Street.

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The march of the new buildings on Fourth Avenue in Park Slope and Gowanus continues. This is 455 Fourth Avenue, a building which has a little bit of an interesting history. It was originally supposed to be a Robert Scarano building, but the embattled architect was eventually replaced by Armand Quadrini of KSQ Architects (who […]

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“The Argyle condo on Fourth Avenue in Gowanus is finally starting to look like building. After a slow start, Argyle has added floors in both the front and back and has reached eight floors. In recent weeks, has actually become visible above the lower buildings around it….It bills itself as being in Park Slope, and […]

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Oh, how times change. As if all the new buildings that have gone up and continue to go up on Fourth Avenue, taking out some of the more traditional businesses like garages and auto body shops along the way aren’t enough evidence of massive change on Fourth Avenue. (Plus things like eye glass shops and […]

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Not much is known about the rather large under-construction development on 4th Avenue between Douglass and Butler streets, and there’s a good chance details about the project will remain obscure for the near future, at least from street level. The site is now fronted by a tall aluminum fence instead of the standard-issue wood construction-site […]

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Fourth Avenue has always been full of garages, tire places and other businesses catering to everyone’s automotive needs. In fact, it still is, although places are slowly falling to development pressure. In any case, it was nice to see that the shaft-like apartment building at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Carroll Street, next to […]

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With people moving into the Novo Park Slope sometime before the end of the decade (well, actually, quite soon), it’s time to ask: will they be able to get a cab? This photo, which we shot recently, would seem to indicate that the answer is yes. On the other hand, they’re only cabs belonging to […]

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Well, Fourth Avenue will never be the new Park Avenue, but it is changing. This is a new eyeglass shop on the avenue between Carroll and President Streets and we have to say that it’s just a little jarring to see Versace and Jimmy Choo in a place where tire shops and the like used […]

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These are what one might call the Fourth Avenue Friends, looking at each other across Carroll Street. The one on the left is something we called The Shaft when it was rising without windows. It has gained them, but the tall, skinny building generally draws curious looks because it is so, dare we say, Finger-like. […]

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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we’re willing to consider the fact that we’re simply the wrong beholder in the case of this buiding at 126 Fourth Avenue (at Baltic). In fact, we kind of liked it better when it was hidden behind scaffolding and netting. The building sits where an Exxon […]

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Was the rezoning of Fourth Avenue in Park Slope seriously flawed? We’d argue that it was in several respects, in particular in that it allowed tall (for Park Slope) buildings without requiring any affordable housing. Yesterday, Normal Oder tackled the subject in a very extensive and thoughtful item on his Atlantic Yards Report. The upshot […]

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