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Continued from Part 1 “DOWNTOWN” BROOKLYN, FULTON FERRY, ‘DUMBO’ These three areas, on the present-day map pf Brooklyn, encompass all the territory north and east of Old Fulton Street/Cadman Plaza West, to the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the east and Fulton Mall on the south. This part of Brooklyn has seen the most change since the [...]
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Much of downtown Brooklyn, which for my purposes includes Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Vinegar Hill, Red Hook and part of Fort Greene, no longer exists. It used to be home to a collection of streets wide and narrow, full of tenements, stores, and cobblestones, many overshadowed by dark forbidding elevated structures where trains rattled on their way to and across [...]
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Forgotten Fans often ask for more old theatres that aren’t there anymore, or are used for something much different now. Most got their start as vaudeville houses, later converted to films. Multiplexes killed them. Until the age of Art Moderne, the more ostentatious, the more ornamented, the better, so these theatres stand as reminders of [...]
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Believe it or not, your webmaster does enjoy the usual pleasures of Coney Island. The mermaid parade, a dog at Nathans, and a July stroll on the boardwalk are all parts of my usual summer repertoire. But Coney Island is a land inhabited by many ghosts. Strange little walkways and alleys with unusual names abound, and [...]
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