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Entries Tagged as 'Street Couches'

Street Couch Series: Comfy Van Seating

May 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Comfy Van Seating

Van seats put to use on the street are always interesting. This pair comes from the front of a small grocery in South Williamsburg. Nice.

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Street Couch Series: Under the BQE

May 14th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Under the BQE

We have a hard time believing that a couch as perfect as this wasn’t placed beneath the BQE deliberately as a kind of street art statement, but there’s always a chance that it was dumped there. In any case, it comes to us via the camera of Miss Heather who has a knack for finding […]

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Street Couch Series: Ainslie Street Masterpiece

May 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Ainslie Street Masterpiece

It is plush. It looks comfortable. The background is priceless. So, who cares if it may have bed bugs? Have a seat on Ainslie Street, kick back and enjoy the sound of the passing cars on the BQE a half block away.

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Street Couch Series: Union & Metropolitan Classic

May 12th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Union & Metropolitan Classic

This was a very popular sofa yesterday, at least, given its rather central location next to Macri Park at Union and Metropolitan Avenues in Williamsburg. We shot a photo of it overturned around 11AM, then got another photo of it upside down in mid-afternoon. Yesterday evening, however, this photo arrived. The sofa was upright again […]

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Street Couch Series: Rocker & TV

May 11th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Rocker & TV

It’s not a street couch, but this image S. 3rd Street of rocker plus TV in Williamsburg courtesy of Miss Heather is the perfect street scene.

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Street Couch Series: Frankie’s Blue Chair

May 9th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Frankie’s Blue Chair

This is a very nice chair that Miss Heather located for us on Richardson Street next to a restaurant in the making called Frankie’s, which has been “opening soon” for the last six months. And so, she called it “Frankie’s Blue Chair.” It certainly looks like the kind of seat that one might want to […]

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Street Couch Series: Hot Red Greenpoint Leather

May 8th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Hot Red Greenpoint Leather

This is more of a loveseat than a sofa, nonetheless the combination of red leather and placement on Eagle Street in Greenpoint are priceless. The photo comes to us courtesy of Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Spring Edition

May 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Spring Edition

This, uh, springy couch comes from Diamond Street in Greenpoint. The image came from the camera of Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Norman St. Hang Out Sofa

May 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Norman St. Hang Out Sofa

What we’re seeing here, in this couch found on Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, is a street sofa classic. It is the perfect couch for hanging out on the street and watching the world go by. It comes from the camera of Miss Heather.

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In the Pool: Big Bruce Chair

May 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

[Photo courtesy of threecee/flickr] Call this the Big Bruce Chair as it comes from Pacific Street, within the Atlantic Yards footprint. Also, it has fall and can’t get up.

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Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Pastoral

April 24th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Greenpoint Pastoral

This collection comes from Greenpoint and we will let Miss Heather explain: “This melange of discarded furniture is located in front of Ladder 106 on Greenpoint Avenue right off McGuinness Boulevard. This is arguably one of the noisiest–and when the wind is just right–smelliest sections of the Garden Spot. The magazine rack is a nice […]

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Street Couch Series: Friendly Naugahyde

April 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Friendly Naugahyde

The very friendly naugahyde chairs come from Bedford Avenue in Bed-Stuy. They’re not couches, per se, but they’re street furniture and, you know, they fit together. Miss Heather contributed the photo.

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Street Couch Series: Green Street Sun Chair

April 19th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Green Street Sun Chair

One does expect, at this point, to begin finding couches and chairs that have been dragged or carried outside for the purpose of planting oneself in the sun and relaxing or hanging out. Such would appear to be the case with this Street Chair (which, of course, is not strictly a Street Sofa, but is […]

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Street Couch Series: Tattered on Boerum Street

April 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Tattered on Boerum Street

This blue couch, which has seen better days, but is out on the street just in time for warm weather, comes from Boerum Street in East Williamsburg. Miss Heather sent it our way.

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Street Couch Series: Van Brunt Street Rocker

April 16th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Van Brunt Street Rocker

Yes, this is Street Furniture as opposed to a Street Couch, nonetheless, the point is the same, and with nice weather here that can only mean that it’s time to drag the finest out to the sidewalk all over Brooklyn and to enjoy. This comes from Van Brunt Street and the camera of Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: President Street Model

April 10th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: President Street Model

[Photo courtesy of Lost City] This impressive street couch, which still might have many good years of service ahead of it were it not for the fact that it’s been tossed out on the street, comes from President Street in Carroll Gardens, a neighborhood from which we don’t often get street sofas. It was found […]

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Street Couch Series: Java Street Comfy Chair

April 5th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Java Street Comfy Chair

We have always believed that Greenpoint offers the most comfortable and intact street furniture, and today’s submission from Miss Heather, does nothing to disabuse us of the notion. It comes from Java Street and really looks like the kind of furniture that invites take a load off.

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Street Couch Series: Green Street Leather

April 4th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Green Street Leather

This very compelling piece of street furniture comes from Green Street in Greenpoint and it reaches us via the digicam of Miss Heather. Nice.

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Street Couch Series: Clinton Hill Leather

April 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

This comfy-looking black leather piece of street furniture comes from Skillman Street in Clinton Hill. It was passed along by Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Recliner with TVs

March 31st, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Recliner with TVs

This plush and once-proud recliner comes to us from Dekalb Avenue in Bed-Stuy where Miss Heather found it communing with a couple of old TV sets. While the staging suffers from the fact that the TVs have been carelessly placed behind the recliner, it’s still easy to picture kicking back in it and watching.

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Street Couch Series: Green Street Tartan

March 30th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Green Street Tartan

It is hard to say anything about this overturned Greenpoint sofa except that Miss Heather calls it the Green Street Tartan based on location and pattern.

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Street Couch Series: Distinguished Seat Edition

March 29th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Distinguished Seat Edition

No, not a sofa, but it’s a very distinguished bit of street seating. It’s from Harrison Avenue in Williamsburg and comes of course, from Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Tan on Green Street

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Tan on Green Street

Here is a beautiful tan speciment from Green Street in Greenpoint. It comes from Miss Heather.

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Street Couch Series: Roebling Hide-a-Bed

March 27th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Roebling Hide-a-Bed

There’s a certain something about the mass of this sofa and the way everything is piled atop it as it waits to meet its maker that is compelling. It comes from the camera of Miss Heather and was captured on Roebling Street in Williamsburg.

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Street Couch Series: Eldert Street Seating

March 26th, 2008 · Comments Off on Street Couch Series: Eldert Street Seating

This seating comes from Eldert Street in Bushwick and even has seat belts. It comes via the roving camera of Miss Heather.

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Tags: Bushwick · Street Couches