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Since many a Google searcher has been stopping by BeehiveHairdresser in recent days looking to see if Chase Bank will open on Presidents’ Day, we figured that we should just go right on ahead and snap a shot of the sign on the front door of the local Chase Bank.

As you can see, Chase Bank will be open on said day this year and if you take a look at the sign from last year you will also notice that they used a different copy editor for their signage this year.

There are two things that a small, but vocal minority of people that live in and/or who frequent Bay Ridge love to do:

1. Double park their cars.
2. Complain about receiving tickets for said double parked cars.

They tend to live in a ‘but it’s me’ and ‘I was only double parked for five minutes so it should be okay’ mentality.

It’s due to that small, arrogant and ignorant minority that makes walking, driving and generally living in Bay Ridge to be much more hazardous that other outer-borough neighborhoods. 

Take a look at this scene from Friday afternoon along 5th Avenue at 88th Street.

Thank you, automobile drivers who were ‘just there for a few minutes’ to make this photo possible and give the driver of that van trying to squeeze by several minutes of frustration and good use of his horn blowing skills.

In exchange of the analog Diana fisheye camera that we received for Christmas (see yellow fisheyed beetle pic) we got some lens attachments for our digital camera. 

This is a shot of an old Lincoln Savings bank that was built in the 1930s that is now home to a Chase Bank. 

It’s a classic ‘bank’ building.

And with this, we just got hooked on a whole other side of photography and look forward to exploring it more.

We recently became hooked on Failblog.  The site is hysterical and so when we saw this sign on a glass door we immediately thought of Failblog.

The sign is crazy!  It wants customers to walk through a glass window and then into a display instead of using the door. 

Most people only enjoy going outside during the warmer months to take in the fresh air and beautiful scenery.

Little do they realize that the colder months hold natural beauty as well.  Take this Empress Tree that is getting ready for a May bloom of colorful purple….TOTAL COOLNESS!!!

Writing commentary on subway advertisements is like accidentally knocking up a woman - any dumb guy can do it. 

With that in mind we found this ad hanging on Union Street with a woman on a scale…

We imagine the fool who wrote the ‘50lb’ comment thinks that a kilogram is only a reference to how drugs are bundled and sold in bulk…and so said fool is still confused.

There’s something quite beautiful about these words seeing as how they are on a bricked up doorway that keeps things out, or locked in…depending on how you look at it.

With the tall radio tower in the background and a young manchurian catalpa tree in the foreground…

‘Earth Tries To Outdo Man’

The sight of a closed down bookstore is a sad one…

A closer look at the inside of the closed bookstore reveals an even sadder sight…

Books that were once high and mighty enough to be held up on display of the front window are now deemed so worthless that they were left behind to rot and become dust.

We received a Diana camera for Christmas along with a fisheye lens. 

We quickly learned that we’re WAY too digital to deal with a manual film camera; plus we enjoy taking thousands of photos a year and that would break the bank with developing.

Enjoy one of the only good lomography photos we took before deciding to return said Diana camera.

Two pigeons in love…

Are quite beautiful.

Perhaps it is the unusually calm waters of the narrows, but this is probably our second favorite photo of the year so far.

Here’s the first pic of the year.