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Seen in Brooklyn Heights on April 6, 2025, an Amazon e-cargo "bike" (I dispute "bike" but setting that aside). I used these photos to illustrate an article. Setting aside the question of whether something with four wheels can be a bike, I like the form-factor and it is fun to watch them chug along in Brooklyn.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/amazon-cargo-bikes-in-brooklyn/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #Houses #Brick #Street #Amazon #ECargoBike #EQuadCargoBike #Delivery #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS

A dark blue Amazon e-cargo bike parked in front of a brick house in Brooklyn Heights. The side of the "bike" (which has four wheels) has the Amazon swoosh next to "prime" and the text "E-Assisted Vehicle."

A dark blue Amazon e-cargo bike parked in front of a brick house in Brooklyn Heights. We see the front of the bike with a large window and headlights.

Seen on Love Lane and College Place in Brooklyn Heights (NYC) on June 23, 2025, a free white desk.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/free-desk-on-love-lane-in-brooklyn-heights/

Tags:
#NewYorkCity #NYC #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #Desk #Furniture #StretFurniture #CardboardBoxes #CompostBins #Frence #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

A small white computer desk neatly placed on a sidewalk with its side against a concrete ledge and its back against a black iron fence at the corner of Love Lane and College Place in Brooklyn Heights. Behind the fence we seen neatly collapsed cardboard boxes ready for recycling.

Seen in Red Hook, Brooklyn (NYC), on April 29, 2025: A solitary yellow and red tulip.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-solitary-tulip-in-red-hook/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #RedHook #Flower #Tulip #Weeds #Rocks #Tree #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

A solitary yellow garden tulip with red accents growing from a dry patch of soil in front of a wooden post, surrounded by small patches of grass.

Many people enjoy going to the beach in the summer. But what if I told you that "people" includes "garden gnomes." I saw this bikini-clad gnome in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, right before where Cobble Hill turns into Carroll Garden. Unfortunately, from her position, she is staring at the street and BQE instead of the Atlantic Ocean.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/inflatable-gnome-in-bikini-in-brooklyn/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #CobbleHill #CarrollGardens #Gnome #Swimsuit #Bikini #Flamingo #SwimmingRing #Hat #Inflatable #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS

An inflatable gnome standing outside a ground-floor brownstone in Brooklyn. Its face is obscured by a tall cone-shaped hat with beach colors and seashells. The gnome has long braided hair, indicating it is a girl. It is wearing a blue bikini and holding a flamingo swimming ring.

The nice thing about Cybertrucks is how they just blend right in with everything around them. Pictured here is a Cybertruck in front of the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn Heights. The Bossert Hotel is no longer a "hotel" -- it was once a galmorous hotel in the 1940 and 50s. It was owned by the Jehovah's Witnesses for a while before they left Brooklyn Heights (well-maintained). They left. It has gone through multiple owners since and is dragging the area down. The only residents live under the shed, which I now only view from across the street.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/u-s-air-force-targets-cybertrucks/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #BossertHotel #Shed #Scaffolding #Cybertruck #GooglePixel6a #GooglePixel #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

A large silver Cybertruck parcked in front of the Bossert Hotel in Brooklyn Heights with a black car in parked in front. The Cybertruck's red lights are on. The inside of the Bossert (which we see from the side) is well-lit.

I was walking through Grand Army Plaza back in August 2023 when someone handed me a box of water. I drank the boxed water. It was fine water. Good enough to make me buy boxed water? No. But I digress. The box was very verbose. On the side the box promises that the company will plant two trees if you post a photo of the box with #betterplanet. Note the box does not say WHERE you have to post the hashtag. I assume this offer is applicable to Pixelfed. I'll do a second hashtag so maybe we get four trees.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/my-boxed-water-is-better-story/

Tags:
#BetterPlanet (you're welcome) #BoxedWater #BoxedWaterIsBetter #Carton #GooglePixel3aXL #LineageOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

Side of a BOXED WATER IS BETTER CARTON. The carton is white with black text. The text is organized under three headings. First, SUSTAINABLE touts that the carton is made from 92% renewable materials and the cap is plant-based. PURE touts that the water underwent an 8-step purification process and is pH neutral with no additives. YOU POST WE PLANT asks people to post an image of the carton with the hashtag #betterplanet and the company would plant two trees in a National Forest. It claims they already planted 1,400,000 trees.

I was looking to buy a drink in a small produce store in Boerum Hill (Brooklyn NYC neighborhood) August 14, 2025. While looking at the options, I was surprised when I saw a "LIQUID DEATH" sticker under glass bottles of Coca Cola. I noticed that there was a drink called "Liquid Death" next to the Coke, but note the sticker is poorly placed. From this, I learned what Liquid Death is. (Note: I ended up buying a diet peach Snapple for $1.50. I wish the Snapple came in a glass bottle like the Coke. Glass bottle Snapple tastes better than plastic.)

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/coca-cola-liquid-death-tag/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #BoerumHill #Store #CocaCola #Coke #LiquidDeath #GlassBottles #Cans #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

Photograph of drink refrigerator at Mr. Beet in Brooklyn. On the right are three varieties of Liquid Death. On the left are individual glass bottles of Coca Cola next to six pack glass bottles of Coca Cola and Diet Coke. There is a price sticker under the drinks which says LIQUID DEATH $2.49TAX. Curiously, the Liquid Death price sticker is under the Coca Cola instead of the Liquid Detah.

Pictured is the window of a non-descript laundromat in Ridgewood, Queens. I photographed this on what was the back-end of a 22.6 mile walk from Brooklyn to the Queens neighborhood of Forest Hills.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/window-washing-machine-couple-in-ridgewood/

Pixelfed post from later that same day:
https://pixelfed.social/p/nafnlj/701453104292885659

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Queens #Ridgewood #Window #WindowStickers #Laundromat #WashingMachines #GooglePlixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Photograph of the window of a laundromat in Ridgewood, Queens. The inside of the window is covered by brown paper and cardboard. On the itisde, there are two washing machine figures tapped on. The left figure appears to be make and is waving with an awkward smile. The female figure is holding his hand and smiling while waving more naturally.

You never know what you will find on a walk. Here, I documented someone's efforts to create an art display using a paper coffee cup. I photographed this on April 19, 2025, at the corner of Hicks and Nelson Streets in the Brooklyn NYC neighborhood of Red Hook.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/garbage-and-free-stuff-in-red-hook-brooklyn/

Tags:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #RedHook #CoffeeCup #PaperCup #Fence #Lot #Wire #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Brown paper coffee cup haphazardly tied to a chainlink fence with a brown wire. There is a piece of a black trash bag tied to the wire. Through the fence we see a wooden wall.

Jim Walden is an independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. He has roughly the same chance of being elected as I do. But prospects of victory aside, I came across his campaign car, it appears to be a MINI Cooper, parked in Brooklyn Heights (where Mr. Walden reportedly lives) on Hicks Street between Montague and Clark. It was the first time I had seen a campaign car in person since stumbling upon Jimmy McMillan's campaign van in Flatbush, Brooklyn, in 2011, so I had to turn it into an article. (Do note the *interesting* license plate in the second photo.)

Walden Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/jim-waldens-nyc-mayor-campaign-car/

Bonus Jimmy McMillan Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-true-story-of-jimmy-mcmillan-and-a-too-long-line-at-dunkin-donuts/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #PoliticalCampaign #CampaignCar #Trees #JimWalden #GooglePixel #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Photograph of Jim Walden's NYC Mayor campaign car. It is a mini cooper parked by the sidewalk in Brooklyn Heights. It is painted dark blue with a grayscale photograph of a smiling Jim Walden painted on the rear door. On the side of the front door we see JIM WALDEN INDEPENDENT FOR NYC MAYOR.

I was playing around with the ANeko Reborn app on my GrapheneOS-powered Google Pixel 6a for a quick review. As the name suggests, the app adds a cat to your display. I decided to try it with the Skitty skin (Skitty is a generation 3 Pokémon). I needed screenshots so I decided to unleash Skitty on my feed reader (Miniflux, PWA version). Here, you see Skitty running on the Semafor Gulf newsletter (in my feed reader thanks to Kill the Newsletter) in Miniflux. It appears that Skitty has just entered Egypt after leaving Saudi Arabia. I submit for the record that I did not note where Skitty was on the map until I looked at the screenshot on my computer.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-aneko-reborn-for-android/

Tags:
#GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #Miniflux #Skitty #Pokémon #Map #Egypt #SaudiArabia #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #FDroid #ANeko

Skitty from ANeko reborn app running over Egypt in an in-article map seen in the Miniflux feed reader PWA.

On March 12, 2025, I came across a discarded Els Pet "Spaceship" litter box left out for the taking in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. It came with a note. The note indicated that the litter box "worked" but was left out due to the former owner's lack of satisfaction with the product (namely the smell). I enjoyed the review and re-published it along with my own thoughts on the litter box's website.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/sharing-handwritten-review-of-the-els-pet-spaceship/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #CobbleHill #FreeStuff #LitterBox #Review #Note #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS

Photograph of the front of an Els Pet "Spaceship" litter box left out for the taking in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, one March 2025 evening.

This is a photograph of the intersection of Myrtle and Vanderbilt Avenues in Brooklyn. This is the border of two neighborhoods: Clinton Hill and Fort Greene. There is not too much to say about it other than (1) I took it on May 4, 2025; (2) Exciting photo for Subway fans; and (3) You can see the tallest (and, some say, most ominous) building in Brooklyn in the background. I did however use this photo for an article featuring a different stretch of Vanderbilt Avenue (that is why I took it), so I figured why not share a bigger version on Pixelfed.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/nyc-open-streets-traffic-cone-shortage-05-13-2025/

Tags: #NYC #Brooklyn #ClintonHill #FortGreene #VanderbiltAvenue #Cars #StreetSign #Subway #Rain #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS

Photograph of the intersection of Vanderbilt and Myrtle Avenues in Brooklyn. In the foreground we see the roofs of two silver SUVs. In the distance we see a large street sign for Vanderbil Avenue in front of a Subway.

I took these two photos at 7:34 and 7:36 PM on May 4, 2025 from the Fruit Street Sitting Area in Brooklyn Heights (NYC). This is between the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and the long hill leading down to DUMBO and Brooklyn Bridge Park. As you can see, it was very foggy that evening and the fog obscured the Manhattan Skyline. In the bottom-right corner of the second photo you can see a wooden bridge which leads down to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/foggy-manhattan-skyline-may-4-2025/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #BrooklynHeights #Manhattan #ManhattanSkyline #FreedomTower #BrooklynBridgePark #EastRiver #Clouds #Fog #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

Photograph of the Manhattan Skyline and southern tip of Manhattan. The sky is gray and overcast in the early evening. Two streams of fog obscure the Freedom Tower and surrounding buildings. Brooklyn Bridge Park is in the foreground.

Photograph of the Manhattan Skyline and Squibb Park walkway to Brooklyn Bridge Park. The sky is gray and overcast in the early evening. Fog obscures the Freedom Tower and surrounding buildings. Brooklyn Bridge Park is in the foreground.

I saw a discarded dry Christmas Tree on a Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYC) sidewalk. You may be wondering why I stopped to take a photo. Reason: The day was May 4, 2025.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/williamsburg-christmas-tree-in-may-2025/

2021 PF post on same topic:
https://pixelfed.social/p/nafnlj/293021709823512576

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #Williamsburg #ChristmasTree #Tree #TreePit #Rain #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

A dry, brown Christmas Tree with its base lying on the sidewalk and its upper-half in a tree pit. The sidewalk is wet with rain.

I first saw a BLOB DYLAN tag in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in January 2021. That launched me on a journey toward becoming one of the internet's leading BLOB DYLAN scholars (or so I tell myself). Despite my research on the matter of BLOB, I never saw a BLOB DYLAN tag in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which is one of his stomping grounds (or so I hear). However, that all changed on the afternoon of May 4, 2025. I present to you a BLOB DYLAN tag seen on Roebling Street.

(Note: There are a few other BLOB DYLAN photos in my Pixelfed collection if you scroll for them.)

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/blob-dylan-seen-in-williamsburg-may-2025/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #Williamsburg #BLOBDYLAN #Graffiti #TreePit #Garbage #Trash #Rain #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Photograph of the cast iron fence around a tree pit in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is raining. On the top of the black fence rail we see a "BLOB DYLAN" tag written in white with a circle around the middle of the O in BLOB and a circle around the A in DYLAN. Next to it in blue we see HOMESI with either an e, s, or < at the end. There is trash in the tree pit.

A vintage Dunkin' DONUTS napkin from before Dunkin' Donuts went soft and dropped the donuts. I took this photo in 2025 but I probably obtained the napkin in 2017 or 18.
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Article: https://thenewleafjournal.com/dunkin-donuts-are-not-all-the-same/
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Tags: #DunkinDonuts #Dunkin #Napkin #Counter #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Seen on Cambridge Place in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn (New York City)... a zebra... on a home. I will hold off on asking about asking about the disco ball until we get to the bottom of the zebra situation. I took this photo with the GrapheneOS camera app on my Google Pixel 6a on March 27, 2025.
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Article: https://thenewleafjournal.com/portico-zebra-on-cambridge-place-in-clinton-hill/
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Tags: #NYC #Brooklyn #ClintonHill #House #Zebra #DiscoBall #GooglePixel6a #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Photograph of a powder blue slat home with a columned portico in Clinton Hill. On the portico is a zebra figure, about three feet long, in the center of the image.

I was walking in the Brooklyn NYC neighborhood of Carroll Gardens on January 11, 2025. Something from across the street caught my attention. I approached and saw that it was a courageous, slightly past-its-prime decorative pumpkin in an orange knit hat sitting atop a definitely past-its-prime pumpkin, standing athwart the winter elements.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/brave-pumpkin-in-a-hat/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #CarrollGardens #Brownstones #Yard #Ivy #Pumpkins #KnitHat #Hats #Pixel6a #GooglePixel #GrapheneOS #NewLeafJournal #TheNewLeafJournal

Photograph of the front yard to a brownstone, somewhat overgrown with green ivy. The photo is taken through three cast iron fence bars, all painted black. Between the second and third bars is a slightly wilted orange decorative pumpkin in an orange knit hat. The pumpkin is sitting on top of a flattening decorative pumpkin.

It is not uncommon to see free stuff left out for the taking on sidewalks in Brooklyn, New York. For example, I came across enough desks over the summer to write a whole article. What is admittedly uncommon however is to come across a "free hardly used" toilet. At least whoever left it took the time to wash it and load it onto an also-free dolly for convenience.

Article:
https://thenewleafjournal.com/free-hardly-used-toilet-seen-in-brooklyn/

Tags:
#NYC #Brooklyn #CarrollGardens #Toilet #Dolly #Sidewalk #FreeStuff #Car #GooglePixel #Pixel6a #GrapheneOS #TheNewLeafJournal #NewLeafJournal

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