architizer:

The Hole: a neighborhood in Brooklyn that sits at 30 feet below grade, which makes city sewage connections impossible (houses empty into cesspools). Roosters roam the green spaces, and some of the Federation of Black Cowboys keep their horses at a stable there. The verdant land also offers an attractively dense cover: The Hole is a notorious dumping ground for dead bodies.

Read more here. 

This is a really interesting short doc! I’m not totally sure how I feel about the spooky effects on the music towards the end though, it’s not that bad but it does suggest a sort of exoticising. Like they’re purposely ending with a tone of “strangeness” when for the most part it seems like an otherwise fair balance between depicting the sweet characters and unique qualities of this neighbourhood alongside it’s struggles and problems. Totally worth watching though, all around.

(via seagullflight)