During the existence of Forgotten New York, which began in 1998, we’ve mourned the loss of several of New York’s grand old watering holes such as Flessel’s in College Point, Queens; Gage and Tollner in Brooklyn (seen on FNY’s Fulton Street page); and Niederstein’s (Middle Village). Regretfully the time has now come to say goodbye to another: Charlie’s in Throgs [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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SILVER BEACH, Bronx
April 29, 2007Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bronx Silver Beach Throgs Neck
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5th AVENUE FAITH
April 23, 2007
Your webmaster was strolling in Park Slope one day, in not quite the month of May, when I happened upon one of the remaining non-”gentrified” storefronts at 5th Avenue between Baltic and Douglass. Now, I know next to nothing about religious articles, symbols of faith, or braucherei of any kind; I’m just going to show what’s [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
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EAST TREMONT–ECHO PARK, Bronx
April 22, 2007“I’m in the mood for Easter everywhere,”once sang idiosyncratic “Arch-drude” British psychedelicist Julian Cope*, and so was your webmaster as he stormed the Bronx for what must have been the first time in months on April 8, 2007. Unfortunately the weatherman wasn’t, as conditions were rather more reminiscent of Thanksgiving, with a temperature of about 40 [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bronx East Tremont Echo Park
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SLOPE AND ANCHOR in Brooklyn
April 16, 2007Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
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ForgottenTour 29, Green-Wood Cemetery Part 2, Brooklyn
April 13, 2007Well, your webmaster finally made the team picture after 29 ForgottenTours. Can you spot where I am?* As usual, despite sunny weather predicted all week, ForgottenTour Day turned out cloudy, chance of showers. At least on 2007′s Green-Wood Cemetery tour, I didn’t have any hecklers, like I did on the 2006 tour! 30 ForgottenFans and I investigated [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn Green-Wood Green-Wood Cemetery
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ALBEE SQUARE, Brooklyn
April 9, 2007On what turned out to be a cool, cloudy 4th of July, 2007 your webmaster invaded one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that seems to have been caught between two more highly-publicized ones: that nebulous region between Brooklyn Heights and Fort Greene, anchored by the Fulton Mall and known on maps merely as “Downtown Brooklyn.” Roughly speaking, it runs [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Downtown Flatbush Avenue
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EAST WILLIAMSBURG PART 1, Brooklyn
April 8, 2007Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn East Williamsburg
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EAST WILLIAMSBURG PART 2, Brooklyn
April 8, 2007CONTINUED FROM EAST WILLIAMSBURG PART 1 As we’ve seen in East Williamsburg Part 1, the region east of downtown Williamsburg is an intriguing amalgamation of abandoned, crumbling hospitals, dog-crap-littered parks, varied and engaging architecture, and oddly enough, a burgeoning hi-rise condo center. Pressing even further east and north we find even more of an industrial wasteland. Bear [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn East Williamsburg
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LOVEJONES
April 5, 2007New York is just not an alley town. While Boston has its Crab Alleys, Quaker Lanes and Primus Avenues, Philadelphia its Crooked Billet Streets, Black Horse and Elfreth’s Alleys, and even Newark, NJ its Despoilation Alley, New York’s grid system conceals a relative few hidden lanes. That’s the reason your webmaster has attempted to ferret [...]
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KISSENA PARK, Queens
April 1, 2007Equal parts playground and wilderness, Kissena Park is bordered by Oak Avenue, Kissena Boulevard, 164th Street, and Booth Memorial Avenue (referred to rather comically on the Parks Department website as “Hemstead Turnpike”; the avenue hasn’t been called North Hempstead Turnpike for over 50 years!). Like Waters I have often repaired to my park for surcease from the [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Flushing Kissena Park Queens
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ForgottenTour 28, Juniper Valley-Middle Village, Queens
April 1, 2007April 1, 2007, didn’t fool 48 ForgottenFans…second-most ever on a ForgottenTour (the prize goes to the 56 who turned up for Tour 14 in Dumbo, October 2003)…who turned up for FNY’s jaunt through Middle Village and Juniper Park. We were aided by FNY Correspondent Christina, the Queen of Queens, and Bob Holden, President of the Juniper Park Civic Association. [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Middle Village Queens