Was it murdered by construction equipment, a car or vandalism? In any case, this alternate side parking sign is very dead. It had lived on N. 9 Street between Havemeyer and Berry. RIP.

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There are actually a couple of interest things about this sign, beside the hanging alternate side element. First, is the background, which is Grand Ferry Park. Work is going on and blogger INSIJS reports the park is supposed to reopen by late April. The other is the “Help keep our beaches clean” part of the […]

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This one-way specimen comes to us from Fifth Avenue and Baltic Streets in Park Slope. It can be found hiding under scaffolding surrounding a building that has been in ruins since a Chinese restaurant went up in flames a couple of years ago.

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From the traffic insanity known as Grand Army Plaza. Hope no one without a clue about finding Prospect Park actually has to do so.

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This isn’t so much an altered or battered street sign as it is an arty street sign, but we like those too. It comes from Union Street near Third Avenue in Gowanus, mere steps from the Holiday Inn Express.

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There are two interesting things about these signs, which come from the border of Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy. One of them is the dangling one way sign. The other is the fact that Miss Heather, who supplied us with the photo, notes that the street is “Sandford Street,” not “Sanford Street.”

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The Pedestrian Upside Down Sign above comes from 147 Maujer Street in East Williamsburg. It was sent our way by Miss Heather, who also provided the shot of the actual pedestrians below. Whether one cares for the building in question is definitely a matter of taste. We’ll simply say that it is not to the […]

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From Dumbo comes a No Standing sign that has seen better days and is now just sort of hanging there.

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Always look out for the crooked pedestrian crossing sign, especially on S. 3 Street in Williamsburg.

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From Smith Street in Carroll Gardens. There is nothing we can add with words to this photo.

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We love it when No Standing signs are themselves, no longer standing, so to speak. This one is hanging around on N. 3 Street near Berry in Williamsburg.

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The scaffolding around the Quadriad Development site on Bedford Avenue at N. 3 Street in Williamsburg is up and the Stop Sign…well, it’s still visible, as long as one is not in a hurry and looks carefully.

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[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/www.britinbrooklyn.com] This photo from Brit in Brooklyn blogger Adrian Kinloch, shows just how nice a photo of compromised street signs can be. It’s from Flatbush and 6th Avenue and has clearly seen better days.

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In addition to the Stop Sign and the One-Way Sign, there are No Pigs Allowed on Ten Eyck Street. The pic comes from Miss Heather, who also hit us off with this one last week.

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Miss Heather, who submitted this image of a a sign on Powers Street in East Williamsburg, notes that each neighborhood seems to have a specialty. Her Greenpoint neighbors enjoy destroying and discarded couches. People in Bed-Stuy appear to excel at destroying pay phones. The good people of East Williamsburg, meanwhile, she says, do very, very […]

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This downed sign is from Second Street near Smith in Carroll Gardens. It is hard to tell what caused it to have this fate, but it might be safe to venture that it was an unfortunate vehicular interaction.

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There are so many elements at work in this sign from Ten Eyck Street in East Williamsburg that it’s hard to know where to start. Well, we know that we need to start with the Curb Your Piggy element, which is superb, but we also have to note the damaged one-way signs and tagged Stop […]

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Sometimes, it’s the “private” no parking signs that suffer the most interesting fates. We like the written over No Parking and the dog sticker. It’s from Williamsburg.

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It is face down on Meeker Avenue and may have been the victim of a traffic accident. It appears to have been in this condition for a while, given the dust and grit that have accumulated. Then again, on Meeker Avenue in the Burg beneath the BQE, that could happen in a matter of days.

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This very stickered sign comes from Williamsburg on Union Avenue near the BQE. It used to call on drivers to keep the intersection clear.

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This one-way at Roebling and N. 10 in Williamsburg was a victim of high winds, we think. Either that or we finally noticed it because it was making a lot of noise blowing back and forth.

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This is easily the most enjoyable altered sign we’ve seen in a long time. It comes from Seventh Avenue in Park Slope at Carroll Street. We honestly don’t know how long it’s been like this, but we enjoyed finally noticing if it’s been that way for a while. Superb.

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You simply don’t see a lot of drawbridge signs in New York, but there are a number of them in Gowanus, where there are five drawbridges over the Canal, all of which open and close from time to time. This signs is on Ninth Street as one approaches the Ninth Street Bridge under the Smith-9th […]

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Park Slope is not the best place in Brooklyn to find violated street signs in Brooklyn, but one does come across them from time to time. This one is from Ninth Street and Sixth Avenue.

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This stop sign, with added gorilla, comes from N. 9 Street and Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg. We believe it is of fairly recent origin.

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