Wednesday, December 12, 2018
"25-foot toy soldiers flanking a two-story Santa that speaks!" Photographs from our Christmas-y night out in Dyker Heights Brooklyn for 6sqft...
Full article: https://www.6sqft.com/
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Photographs from our Christmas-y night out in Dyker Heights Brooklyn for 6sqft...
Full article: https://www.6sqft.com/see-this-years-completely-outrageous-dyker-heights-christmas-lights/
"Where else can you see 25-foot toy soldiers, a two-story Santa, or a house decked out with 30,000 lights other than Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. The suburban neighborhood, historically a quiet, Italian-American enclave, has been putting on its legendary holiday spectacle since 1986, when Lucy Spata moved to the area. Her over-the-top Christmas displays started as a way to honor her mother’s memory (she also loved holiday decorations) and quickly her neighbors followed suit. Today, Lucy is known around town as “Mrs. Claus” and the Dyker Heights lights attract up to 150,000 visitors each season. 6sqft’s resident photographers, James and Karla Murray, recently visited Dyker Heights and captured the outrageous lights and decorations in all their glory. And they were even lucky enough to meet Lucy herself!"
"Where else can you see 25-foot toy soldiers, a two-story Santa, or a house decked out with 30,000 lights other than Dyker Heights, Brooklyn. The suburban neighborhood, historically a quiet, Italian-American enclave, has been putting on its legendary holiday spectacle since 1986, when Lucy Spata moved to the area. Her over-the-top Christmas displays started as a way to honor her mother’s memory (she also loved holiday decorations) and quickly her neighbors followed suit. Today, Lucy is known around town as “Mrs. Claus” and the Dyker Heights lights attract up to 150,000 visitors each season. 6sqft’s resident photographers, James and Karla Murray, recently visited Dyker Heights and captured the outrageous lights and decorations in all their glory. And they were even lucky enough to meet Lucy herself!"
Grotta Azzurra was founded in 1908 by the Davino family in Little Italy , NYC.
The restaurant was named for the Blue Grotto on the Isle of Capri and is one of the first place to serve “Lobster Fra Diavolo” (brother devil in Italian) a dish invented in America, not Italy. We love the restaurant’s overhanging #neonsign as well as the decorative lights strung across the width of the street.
Monday, December 10, 2018
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Puerto Plata Video Rental, Brooklyn, NY.
On this chilly day in NYC, we are thinking of staying inside and watching a movie 🎥 so our thoughts went to Puerto Plata Video Rental in Brooklyn. We love the #handpainted sign complete with a VCR tape on it. Can anyone guess what year we took this photo?
Saturday, December 8, 2018
As the holiday of #Hanukkah has only 1 more night, we are highlighting Murray’s Sturgeon Shop in the Upper West, which has been in business since 1946.
The present owner, Ira Goller was a commodities analyst but decided to leave Wall Street and buy the business in 1990 from restaurateur Artie Culter, the second owner. The founder, Murray Bernstein passed away in 2000. We photographed this appetizing shop in 2010 for our book “Store Front II-A History Preserved” and interviewed the long-time manager who told us, “We have kept more or less the same sort of inventory over the years, selling the finest smoked fish, caviar, homemade salads and soups and our specialty kosher knishes. Many customers have been coming here for so long that they now are bringing their grandchildren in with them.” We have a special place in our heart for this shop because we are in awe of its #neon since our last name is “Murray”!
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