[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Yes, this couch found on Eckford Street is missing its cushions, but its original beauty still shines through. Quite the specimen.

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Yes, yes, it’s not a street couch. But, it’s a Fourth Avenue Rocker (Park Slope side) just sitting there waiting to be taken or rocked.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] There’s really not much to say about this one other than that it comes from Bedford Avenue and Willoughby Avenue on the Bed-Stuy/Clinton Hill border.

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This street couch comes to us courtesy of our contributor and dear, dear friend Miss Heather. She writes: “The attached couch hails from Greenpoint Avenue 11/4/08. I like to call it the ‘Barack Couch’.” And so it is.

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Yeah. Yeah. It’s not a street couch, but there’s still something very compelling, if not timely, about this street seating: please note the presence of the jobs circular on the chair. For added ha-ha’s, we found it on the corner outside a bank.

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Once, it was a sofa bed. But now? Poor bastard. It comes from an undisclosed location in Williamsburg just to the east of the BQE near Union Avenue.

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[Image Courtesy of lornagrl/GL Photo Pool] This leather beauty has clearly lost some of its luster and comes from an undisclosed location that we assume is somewhere in Southern Brooklyn, but what we really like about is the placement of the plant next to it which does manage to give it that homey feeling.

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So, how, one might wonder, does a couch in Red Hook end up atop a bus shelter? The GL tipster who sent us the photo explains:The couch was in the apartment when i moved in a year ago and out of sheer laziness kept it even though hand me down fabric couches skeeve the hell […]

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Best street furniture photo ever? If not, it’s damned close. Clearly, it has less to do with the furniture itself than with the blow-up Mr. Stud seated on it. Mr. Stud? For freaking real? The photo comes to us courtesy of the good people behind the IMBY blog, which has spent a long time chronicling […]

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[Photo for GL by E.C. Stephens] GL Correspondent E.C. Stephens, who came across this massacre scene on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope in front of Southpaw writes: “Oh the humanity! Devoted GL viewers may want to divert their eyes from this horror.” We agree. It’s pretty gruesome compared to the beauties we usually feature.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Our dear friend and valued contributor Miss Heather, who is truly the Queen of the Street Couch, among a great many other things, sent us this goodie, which she called “A Study in Denim” and the “Gonzo Couch.” It comes from N. 15 Street in Greenpoint.

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Again, this is not a Street Couch per se, but it’s a damned colorful chair and it rocks. We found it on Bergen Street in Park Slope looking like it just came out of the rental furniture showroom.

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One of the things we missed most about GL being on hiatus was the loss of our Street Couch Series. We even walked by a few here and there without taking photos of them, causing minor crises of both heart and soul. No longer. The Street Couch Series is back! This is one that we […]

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This excellent specimen comes via a very Special GL Correspondent. It was found on Grand Street between Graham and Humboldt and we particularly like the way that the darkness and reflections give it the look a sofa in a lounge, albeit a sort of trashy one.

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Here’s a beauty located and sent to us by Miss Heather that comes from the sidewalk out of the Astral in Greenpoint. It comes complete with its own artwork, which is a very nice touch.

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[Photo courtesy of dumbonyc/GL Flickr Pool] Yes, it is a chair rather than a sofa, but it is a spectacularly placed on, sitting there as it is, amidst the weeds in Dumbo.

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This excellent piece of street furniture comes to us by way of a very special and esteemed Special Correspondent. Our Bushwick Avenue Couch contributor says it was photographed “by grand st. found at 11 am, out with a bunch of other chairs, garbage, etc.”

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This is a section from Green Street in Greenpoint, where many fine, fine street couches have been found. This one comes, of course, from Miss Heather.

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No, these aren’t street couches, per se, but they certainly fall into the category of street seating and, frankly, they are quite compelling as very deconstructed Adirondack chairs. The photographer writes, “looks like someone got rough with the adirondacks at lonelyville.” Lonelyville is on Prospect Park Southwest in Windsor Terrace.

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[Photo courtesy of mugsniffer/GL Flickr Pool] This Labor Day Street Couch Classic comes from Guernsey Street in Greenpoint. Enjoy.

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We came across this specimen on Franklin Street in Greenpoint where it waited behind bars for its eventual disposal. There was also something written on it about trouble, but we don’t think it had anything to do with bedbugs.

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[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool] In terms of both composition and content, this pic of a sofa that comes along with a dirty rug, in Red Hook works perfectly. It was captured on Coffey Street off Van Brunt. It rocks.

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Is it us, or are the Park Slope Street Couches that we encounter often in much better shape than their Williamsburg, Greenpoint and other counterparts? In any case, this tan leather beauty that was hauled out as trash comes from Sixth Street near Prospect Park. There was a box spring sitting next to it, but […]

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[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This, friends, is the most symbolically exquisite street couch that has come our way (via Miss Heather, of course). It was photographed outside Radiac. What does that mean? Well, Radiac, has a bit of history in the neighborhood and let’s just say that a Geiger Counter placed next to the […]

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We’re calling this one the Brooklyn Fish Camp Leather Sofa because we found it outside Brooklyn Fish Camp on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope. It’s definitely more of a Slope couch than a Williamsburg or Greenpoint model.

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