The Cute Sukkah
Driving through Williamsburg on Yom Kippur, I saw the sukkahs starting to pop up and thought what a cool post it would make if I photographed the various structures. Well, I don’t have time to do that, so I’m grabbing some from the web.
For non Jews (or non New Yorkers), a sukkah is a temporary structure with a roof of leafy boughs and straw built for the holiday of Sukkot to commemorate the tabernacles of the Exodus. I cut and pasted that definition, so don’t ask me anything else.
Raise your hand if you’re new to NYC and you’ve seen these “boxes” on people’s terraces and front lawns and wondered WTF. Now you can impress your friends with your knowledge.
The Portable Sukkah
The Modular Sukkah
The Apartment Sukkah
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HA!….”I cut and pasted that definition, so don’t ask me anything else.”
I used to have neighbors who had a fire escape sukkuh that I would spy on from my bedroom window. It was super deluxe. One year there were flowering branches of some kind woven across the top. Not sure how the exodus views flowers but I rather enjoyed them!
Comment by laura @ the shore house — September 29, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Sukkahs are an eyesore to any community. A lot of times they do not take them down afterwards and it remains all year long. Fire-escape Sukkahs are dangerous as they are not meant to hold that much weight. Same with terrace/balcony Sukkahs. DOB should take a long walk around Boro Park and start issuing violations.
Comment by sxm — September 30, 2009 @ 1:38 pm
Could I get permission to use your photos of some sukkahs in a booklet that I am preparing to explain Sukkot?
Thanks,
Mike
Comment by Michael Norten — April 9, 2011 @ 4:52 pm
Mike, they weren’t my images to begin with. If you click on the photos, it will link to where I got them from. Good luck!
Comment by RH — April 9, 2011 @ 8:40 pm