A Black Friday (or "Brooklyn Friday) shopping trip to Brookyn Junction is a trip down memory lane for  Richard Grayson. Here’s an excerpt.

As a pre-teen in the Kennedy
administration, "going to the Junction" was a big treat for us, though
it usually meant getting glazed donuts and comic books and
window-shopping around what was the closest thing to a shopping area we
could get to from Flatlands on the B41 bus.

By the end of the
1960s, we were jaded by our every-weekday trips as a student at Midwood
High School and Brooklyn College, and these days we make the trip twice
a week from Williamsburg to teach classes in creative writing and the
short story, not to shop.

Passing a dozen or so Jehovah’s Witnesses ladies at the train station,
we made our way to the new Triangle Junction Mall between Nostrand and
Flatbush Avenues on what used to be municipal and private parking lots
where we kept our gold ’73 Mercury Comet when we couldn’t find a meter
or a legal space anywhere else.

The mall’s main store is Target,
the fourth in Brooklyn, opened just last spring. Of course, the Circuit
City in the same mall, which opened later, is already closing as that
company, bankrupt, is forced to liquidate. Three people with big signs
announcing the end of Circuit City, if not the world, are strategically
placed on different corners, including in front of the elevator to the
subway station.