District Coach on the Go
12 Apr 2018 Leave a comment
in 368K, Brooklyn, Useful Information Tags: 1958, certificate of occupancy
From 1958 comes this Certificate of Occupancy statement. Every school had one posted somewhere.
Notice the different quotas for males versus females in shop classes versus in home economics!
It is amazing to think that for 60 years this particular document has not been touched….
Here are close-ups.
15 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
in 368K, art Tags: books, handmade, Shannon Addy
I met an art teacher who showed me some beautiful handmade books she had created. I especailly like the accordian one.
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in art, district office, Useful Information Tags: featured, Google, gray, grey, image search
As a follow up my Black and White vs White and Black Google image search comparison, I decided to do a “gray vs grey” Google image search comparison. Here are the results:
Gray
Search filters that showed up include:
I spy “Whistler’s Mother.”
Compare this to a search for “grey” (the British spelling of the word):
Search filters that showed up include:
I spy a wolf.
Try this comparison yourself, and tell me what filters you found.
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in 993Q, classroom, Queens Tags: 993Q
View inside a classroom
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in 277Q, Manhattan, Queens, water Tags: 277Q, featured, skyscraper
I was leaving a school in Long Island City, Queens, and took the ferry back to my office in Manhattan. As I got closer to the city I zoomed in a bit on this cool skyscraper by the East River.
And what do you think of this view of the New York skyline?
13 Feb 2018 Leave a comment
in 277Q, ADL, Queens Tags: ADL, change, copy center, laundry, store
Here are some photos from an Activities for Daily Living classroom in Long Island City, Queens. There are centers for copying papers, shelving groceries, making change, and doing laundry.
Check out the computer closet too.
01 Dec 2017 1 Comment
in art, district office, Useful Information Tags: black, featured, Google, white
I was thinking about Google searches. I searched for “Black and White” and “White and Black.” Look at the different suggestions? filters? that Google adds to the search bar.
“Black and White” image filters:
“White and Black” image filters
There was some overlap in the images, though.
14 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in 993Q, Queens Tags: 993Q, Kosciuszko Bridge
The Kosciuszko Bridge (pronounced by some as “kos-kee-OOO-sko,” and by others as “kah-SHUS-ko”) connects Brooklyn with Queens. It is miserable. And now it is dead, having been replaced by a newer bridge to the side of it. The City imploded the bridge.
I passed through there last week. The traffic was so slow that I could take these photographs of the sections of the old hulk that was the Kosciuszko.
