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Entries Tagged as 'Street Couches'

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 · No Comments

[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 · No Comments

[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 · No Comments

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 Gowanus [...]

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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 Tiffany [...]

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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 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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 the [...]

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Street Couch Series: Red on N. 11 Street

June 6th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Sea Breeze Edition

June 1st, 2008 · No Comments

[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: Street Couches · coney island

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 · No Comments

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

Street Couch Series: Comfy Van Seating

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Under the BQE

May 14th, 2008 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Union & Metropolitan Classic

May 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Rocker & TV

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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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Tags: Street Couches · Williamsburg

Street Couch Series: Hot Red Greenpoint Leather

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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 · No Comments

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

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Tags: Greenpoint · Street Couches · Uncategorized

Street Couch Series: Norman St. Hang Out Sofa

May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Atlantic Yards · In the Pool · Street Couches · Uncategorized