Ever heard of a Brooklyn neighborhood called White Sands? If you haven’t, no big deal…most Brooklyn historians haven’t either! Perched in the no man’s land between Bath Beach and Coney Island, White Sands, settled around 1925-1930, lies between Cropsey Avenue on the east, Dreier-Offerman Park on the west, the Belt Parkway on the north, and Coney Island [...]
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
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WHITE SANDS, BROOKLYN
October 29, 1999Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Bath Beach Brooklyn Coney Island
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Forgotten Tour 4, St. George, Staten Island
October 22, 1999
In early November the Forgottoners Tour swung through Staten Island. In St. George, New Brighton, Grymes Hill and Stapleton we saw dozens of beautiful buildings dating back to the 1850s or earlier, climbed hills from which you could see mountains, and saw a few surprises along the way as well. People who ride the Staten Island Ferry [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn Coney Island Sea Gate
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DOWNTOWN WALL MURALS. The art of the wall mural in midtown.
October 22, 1999Midtown Manhattan between 5th and 7th Avenues and between about 14th Street and 42nd Street is home to hundreds of mural ads on the tall buildings that were built between 1915 and 1935. Most of them advertise long-dead clothing manufacturers and distributors although there are scattered ads for restaurants and newspapers in there as well. A. [...]
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NORTONS POINT TROLLEY, Brooklyn
October 14, 1999Once upon a time, trolleys clang-clanged their way through the streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and even parts of Queens and Staten Island. Trolleys ruled to the degree that the thin peninsula of Coney Island could boast not one but two east-west trolley routes! One of them ran down Surf Avenue from West 37th [...]
Categorized in: Trolleys Tagged with: Brooklyn Coney Island Nortons Point
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THE ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE
October 9, 1999In 1999 I found this abandoned diner on 91st Avenue and Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park. It could have been abandoned a week before or ten years before…it’s all the same. The dishes were stacked neatly inside, the stalls are ready for customers that would never come again. Perhaps there were decades worth of ghosts of [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Queens Woodhaven
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ELVIS PRESLEY and the LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD
October 8, 1999Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Elvis Presley Sunset Park
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Forgotten Tour 3, Coney Island, Brooklyn
October 1, 1999In early fall some Forgotten Fans enjoyed a walk through Coney Island in which relics of its former glory and promises, perhaps, of its future regeneration were recorded. Our tour definitely had an offbeat aspect. Here’s some of what we got to see: The Coney Island Theater Building was built in 1925 and once housed a Loew’s [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn Coney Island Sea Gate