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Photographer David Mandl [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/tag/dave-mandl/] has been snapping shots of dead ends in Brooklyn for 15 years. Now, while this may seem like a futile effort, the 125 pictures he’s accumulated tell a compelling story about the rough-and-tumble borough. The stillness and repetition in Mandl’
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Washington Cemetery, BensonhurstThere are few sights as comforting to the homesick Brooklyn native as the borough’s skyline whizzing by as you sit aboard an elevated subway, looking down on your domain. Yet, despite the sense of place it delivers, it’s not an often celebrated view, perhaps easily taken
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Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration via Wikimedia Commons Growing up in Bensonhurst, rarely anyone I knew went by their real names. From Joey Sticks to Chewy Louie, nicknames are a regular part of neighborhood lore. Dave Mandl, writer for the “Wire, the Believer, the Rumpus, the Register,