In Sense & the City annual tradition, I offer seven sensory delights for the seventh month.
1. Neighborhood tree fencing
This replica of the Brooklyn Bridge is outside Ted & Honey Café in Cobble Hill.
2. Peeled pineapples cut into spirals
Beside their fully clothed neighbors, they look at once flamboyant and vulnerable, like a woman in eveningwear on a morning subway.
3. Spools of thread in streetside tailors’ windows
The tidy spools of every hue mounted on a pegboard encapsulate New York’s quick-fix economy.
4. Fire hoses at the New York Public Library and Grand Central Terminal
Coiled behind a grillwork cage and shuttered in a wooden cabinet: like everything else at these institutions, immaculately designed.
5. Mail-carrier instructions
Lest there be any confusion. President Street, Brooklyn.
6. Chase Bank, Brooklyn Heights
Classic and imposing, the way a bank ought to be.
7. Subway-platform candy stands
Nowhere else do nuts, candy, chips, and batteries look as beautiful as on a gray subway platform.
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The Brooklyn Bridge replica around the tree is not in front of the cafe, but in front of the house next door. It was built by the owner-occupant Dr. Theodor Kaufman, a man of many talents.
Bob Hershon
Good to know, thank you!
Good to know about the artist–and more-precise location. Thank you!