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Monthly Archives: June 2013
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THE 12 HORSEPEOPLE OF THE METROPOLIS
July 22, 2000Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan statues
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LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
July 9, 2000While making your way through the southeastern part of Flushing as you get close to Cunningham Park, you may spot the occasional white-painted overpass crossing the street. They’re not old railroad trestles or park paths…instead, they mark one of America’s very first parkways designed for automobile traffic. In 1904, the auto age had arrived in [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Fresh Meadows Hollis Hills Nassau Queens
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THAT’S SHOWBIZ. A selection of ancient Bronx theatres.
July 3, 2000
In the early years of the 20th Century, dozens of theatres proliferated in the main streets and side streets alike in all five boroughs, featuring live entertainment in the vaudeville and burlesque eras, and later on, movies. Vaudeville survived till World War II, and one-film movie theatres hung on until the 1970s, later killed off [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx movie theaters
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BLYTHEBOURNE’S COUNTRY LANE. The story of Old New Utrecht Road.
July 2, 2000Borough Park is thought of today as a quiet residential neighborhood between Dyker Heights and Kensington in the southwestern quadrant of Brooklyn. But, Borough Park used to have a quite different aspect. Sure, it was always pretty quiet, but until the late 1800s it was the province of farms, hay wagons and mooing cows. Two [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Roads Tagged with: Borough Park Brooklyn