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Entries Tagged as 'Street Couches'

Street Couch Series: Sunset Park Edition

August 21st, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Sunset Park Edition

[Photo courtesy of Adrian Kinloch/Brit in Brooklyn] This incredible street sofa comes from Sunset Park and the remarkable camera of blogger and esteemed GL Contributor Adrian Kinloch. It comes from the end of 39th Street near the water.

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Street Couch Series: Alistair Cooke on Green Street

August 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Alistair Cooke on Green Street

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] Our friend Miss Heather, who is among other things, the Queen of the Street Couch, captured this beauty on Green Street (and there are more to come this week). She calls it “The Alistair Cooke of Couches on Green Street.” Got to love the plumbing truck behind it too.

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Tags: Greenpoint · Street Couches

Street Couch Series: The Sofa of Greenpoint Avenue

August 15th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: The Sofa of Greenpoint Avenue

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This gorgeous white sofa on Greenpoint Avenue comes from Miss Heather who writes: “The good thing about the summer (and a raging bedbug epidemic) is there are plenty of couches for the picking in Greenpoint.” We have several in reserve.

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Street Couch Series: Put Away Wet

August 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Put Away Wet

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This sofa specimen comes from Dupont Street. Miss Heather calls it “Rode Hard and Put Away Wet.” Indeed.

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Street Couch Series: Dumped on N. 8

August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This discarded specimen comes to us from N. 8 Street in Williamsburg, where we found it loaded up with other tossed furniture. We call it, Sofa with Drawers.

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Street Couch Series: Gowanus Couch in Weeds

August 7th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Gowanus Couch in Weeds

[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] This specimen comes from Second Street near Bond in Gowanus. It came our way via GL Flickr Pool contributor Erinmelina.

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Street Couch Series: Gowanus Edition

August 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Gowanus Edition

This specimen comes from Third Street in Gowanus. The kind reader who hit us off with the pic calls it “Gowanus Couch Potato.”

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Street Couch Series: Peace & Love Strikes Greenpoint

August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From Greenpoint, we have the Peace and Love Couch to kick off what is shaping up to be a superb week of street couches. This one comes from Banker Street and Nassau Avenue and was actually part of a street art display, but is, nonetheless, primo street seating.

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Street Couch Series: The Metropolitan Avenue Chair

August 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: The Metropolitan Avenue Chair

This street seating specimen comes from Metropolitan Avenue, pretty much beneath the BQE. The guy walking past with his dog is a nice, extra touch.

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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Death Becomes It

July 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Death Becomes It

The reader who sent us this photo calls it “Midnight Couch Photo,” presumably having something to do with the time of the photo. In any case, what’s interesting is the where the couch was located: at Raccuglia’s funeral home at Sackett & Court Streets in Carroll Gardens, making it our first funeral couch.

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Street Couch Series: Shabby Chic on Box Street

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This specimen comes from Box Street in Greenpoint. Miss Heather, who located and photographed it, calls it “Shabby Chic on Box Street.

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Street Couch Series: Peace & Love on Nassau Avenue

July 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Peace & Love on Nassau Avenue

[Photo courtesy of Miss Heather] This interesting addition to our Street Couch Series collection comes from Miss Heather in Greenpoint.

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Street Couch Series: Red Hook Lounger

July 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Red Hook Lounger

[Photo courtesy of vaduzuvunt/GL Flickr Pool] No, it’s not a sofa. But, it’s from Red Hook and it’s certainly loung(ing)-worthy. Also, we like the collection of crap on it.

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Street Couch Series: Comfy Carroll Gardens Edition

July 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Comfy Carroll Gardens Edition

Here’s a street couch we found waiting for pick up in Carroll Gardens the other day. Nice specimen.

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Street Couch Series: Former Union Street Luxury

June 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

[Photo courtesy of F. Jasmin Adams] At first, when our Carroll Gardens Correspondent sent this image, we thought yesterday’s Union Street Gowanus Luxury sofa had been attacked. Then, we compared the sofas and found that this another remarkably similar one that is also on Union Street. This is a Carroll Gardens model rather than a […]

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Street Couch Series: Gowanus Luxury

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

[Photo courtesy of Heather-D/GL Flickr Pool] We return to our street couch series with a contribution from Heather-D to our GL Photo Photo pool that almost rendered us speechless with its magnificence and by virtue of its location. It comes from Union Street in Gowanus and all it needs is a side table and a […]

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Street Couch Series: Coffey St. Sofa Gets Trashy

June 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Our Carroll Gardens Correspondent filed this updated photo of the street sofa that has graced Coffey Street in Red Hook for some time. It’s, uh, getting a little bit trashy down there.

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Street Couch Series: Coffey Street Seating

June 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

[Photo courtesy of Vaduzuvant/flickr] This sofa comes to us from Coffey Street in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood that is soon to be a source of the Street Couches of the Future once Ikea opens its doors. It comes from our Gowanus Lounge Photo Pool. Click here to see the original photo.

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Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Corner Chairs

June 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Corner Chairs

These chairs were captured via digital image yesterday in blazing heat by Miss Heather. They come from Manhattan Avenue. We like the composition and the way the trash can and chairs are arranged.

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Street Couch Series: Gowanus Leopard Chair

June 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Gowanus Leopard Chair

There is very little that one can add to the photo of this chair, which we came across on Third Avenue in Gowanus. It is regal with its leopard print upholstery.

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Street Couch Series: Five Star Car Edition

June 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Five Star Car Edition

This street seating comes to us via the proprietress of Erica’s Blog, who writes that it’s outside of a car service near Coney Island Avenue and Cortelyou Road: The inside, you should know, is unlike any car service place i’ve ever been in…you gotta walk deep, deep, deep inside the place before you get to […]

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Street Couch Series: Red on N. 11 Street

June 6th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Red on N. 11 Street

This beauty comes from N. 11 Street in Williamsburg via the camera of Miss Heather who is our prime supplier of images of the Brooklyn Street Couch.

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Street Couch Series: Sea Breeze Edition

June 1st, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Sea Breeze Edition

[Photo courtesy lornagrl/Gl Flickr Pool] This street sofa, dropped into our GL Photo Pool by lornagrl, looks like the kind of couch that one would expect to find on Sea Breeze Avenue, if not a condo in Brighton Beach or Coney Island.

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Tags: coney island · Street Couches

Street Couch Series: Bed-Stuy Bus Stop Model

May 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

This example of comfy bus stop seating comes from Tompkins Street in Bed-Stuy, where it is useful for awaiting the arrival of the B43. It was sent our way by Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Free and W/O Bugs on Grand

May 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Free and W/O Bugs on Grand

We found these two couches out on Grand Street in front of the old location of the City Reliquary Museum at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. They’re street couch classics and, of course, are free and free of bugs.

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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg