Desktop Day: Creek Out

Here's our first Mac and PC desktop day! We are pleased to present a tree growing from the rotting cabin of a boat in Coney Island Creek. The top image should fit nicely on a regular PC monitor, and the bottom on a wide-screen Mac. Left click on the image to open the full-size version.

The New-York Ghost: Coney Island Creek

Vol. II, No. 33 hit inboxes today and features some Coney Island Creek photos by yours truly... for anyone still wondering about this image. Sign up for the free "Weekly Newsletter You Print Out at Work" here.

Where the Cats Meow

You can always bump into interesting folks at the muddy and decaying edge of the city. (Tried to get the little fellow at top to come home with me, but he had other plans.) I also met another photographer, the talented Sam Horine, who was looking for the yellow submarine here in Coney Island Creek.

Desktop Day Double: The Monster and the Monitor

This week it's the last of the Halloween creatures from Park Slope, and a computer monitor in the tidal mud of Coney Island Creek. Thanks to those of you who took part in our poll to find the most common screen size. In future we will try supply our images in Mac and PC formats. Instructions Left-click on the image first to open up the large version. Windows PC: Right-click on the large image and select 'set as desktop background'. You can also right-click and 'save as', then use your desktop properties settings to add the file you just saved and format it how you prefer. There's more info on customising your PC desktop here.

Mac: Macintosh instructions can be found here.

Halloween Bungalow

Spotted in Coney Island this sunny afternoon.

Secrets of Coney Island Creek: Photo Show

Images courtesy of Charles Denson An exhibition of over 100 photographs by Charles Denson opens tonight at the Brooklyn College Library. Denson is the author of Coney Island Lost and Found, easily the most comprehensive and engaging Coney history we've read. The reception is tonight, Thursday, October 18 and the exhibit runs through to November 2. Here's more from the press release: "Denson’s subjects include Voodoo and African-Christian ceremonies performed in the Creek’s “holy waters”; fishermen of diverse Southeast Asian cultures; the abandoned yellow submarine, spooky shipwrecks, and treasures dredged out of the Creek. The environmental challenge documented in the photos is the ongoing remediation of the Creek by Keyspan. The exhibit also features archival photos from the 1800s, artifacts dredged out of the Creek, and Coney Island’s oldest existing artifact, an 1823 Toll House sign. For additional info about the exhibition and Charles Denson, a Coney Island native who began documenting the Creek in the 1960s and 1970s, please visit coneyislandhistory.org The Brooklyn College Library is located at 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY. Library hours are Mon-Thurs, 9 am- 9 pm; Friday, 9am -5 pm; and Sat.-Sun. 10 am -6 pm. Tel. 718-951-5346 (Special Collections) or 718-951-4540 (Desk). Directions: Take the Q local to Ave H station or the #2 or #5 to the Flatbush Ave/Nostrand Ave. Station. Please visit brooklyn.cuny.edu for additional directions. Admission is free."