Sunday, April 13, 2008

Russo Realty

This realty office has been in Brooklyn for 30 years, at least.  I can't remember much from before I was three years old.  The front has always looked like this and I have never seen it open for business.  There are a bunch of signs on the front that say Notary Public.  It's located underneath the elevated F train tracks, at the Smith and 9th Street stop, where Carroll Gardens meet Red Hook.  Does anybody know what exactly that space is used for?  Anyone want to venture a guess?  Does anyone go in there to get things notarized?  Is it ever open?  Every time I pass by it I say to myself that the Brooklyn of my childhood will truly be gone when they tear down the Russo Realty building and put up "luxury condos." 

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