Hi, how is your day going.

chac54 · Saturday at 10:53 PM

It's amazing here too! Low 60s and low humidity! I was at the beach earlier and brought my dinner to enjoy there and just watch the waves crash on the shore. That's a sound I will never tire of.

mikeyank · Sunday at 9:05 PM

Once again, I took advantage of the beautiful weekend weather and took an early evening walk through Brooklyn Bridge Park then up through the Promenade back home. I haven’t been to a gym since the Pandemic and so I’m pleased that I took two long walks this weekend, while enjoying the nice weather.

mikeyank · 2025-08-05T10:10:54-0400

mikeyank said:
While out for ny morning chores today, I was across the street from the iconic St. George Hotel. Today it is luxury co-ops but it was once a grand hotel with grand ball rooms and a huge salt water pool in the basement. My brothers in-laws honeymooned there in 1951. It is still an imposing building. Here is a bit of history from Wikipedia.

“The Hotel St. George is a building in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, New York City. Built in sections between 1885 and 1930, the hotel was once the city's largest hotel, with 2,632 rooms at its peak. The hotel occupies the city block bounded by Pineapple Street, Henry Street, Clark Street, and Hicks Street.”

Here are my pics from this morning including the neon liquor store marquee that has been there….”forever”.

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Back in February, I made this post about The St. George Hoel in Brooklyn Heights. I didn’t mention that it is an entrance to the NYC subway with an entrance on Clark Street and another around the corner on Henry Street. Both entrances have concrete facades over them. This is what happened on Sunday morning at 8 AM, from a CBS article. :

“Brooklyn's Clark Street subway station has been shut down indefinitely following the collapse a hotel awning above its entrance.

Surveillance video captured the moment Sunday morning when the awning came crashing down in front of the 2 and 3 Clark Street station.

Thankfully, nobody was nearby when it happened, and there were no injuries.

A spokesperson from the Department of Buildings said the 15-foot by 20-foot awning showed signs of poor maintenance, but the investigation into the collapse is continuing.

The station's entrances are located within the same building where the awning collapsed. A similar awning is on the other side of the hotel, which investigators are inspecting. They said it shows similar signs of corrosion as the one that collapsed. “

Here are two pictures I took in February including the entrances and two more from today. If this happened on a weekday there would have been many injuries and possibly deaths.