Dean Street and Nostrand Avenue, Crown Heights
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ALICE and AGATE COURTS
December 15, 2011Cul de sacs and alleyways have always held a fascination for me. However they are rather scarce in New York City, which has a grid system of streets not only in Manhattan, but in many locales in the other boroughs; service alleys behind buildings are rare as well, which means trash and refuse has to [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn Crown Heights
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KINGSTON LOUNGE
December 8, 2011In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush and East Flatbush, you will find a succession of avenues that run north to south that are named for major cities in New York State. Graciously, city planners acceded to put New York Avenue first, as you travel from west to east. It’s followed by Brooklyn, Kingston, Albany, Troy, Schenectady, [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights jazz
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CLOVE & MALBONE: Crown Heights Leftovers
December 14, 2010During my recent walk from downtown Brooklyn to Crown Heights, I was meandering down Montgomery Street when, just past Nostrand Avenue I spotted an odd little part-dirt, part Belgian blocked path issuing forth toward the southeast. Actually I was doing more than meandering because I had chosen to walk Montgomery Street specifically so I would go by [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Cobblestones Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights
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DOWNTOWN to CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN
November 15, 2010A run of preternaturally sunny and mild November weather has allowed me to do some ForgottenWalks covering much of mid-and southern Brooklyn as well as western Manhattan, and all this will eventually show up in Forgotten NY. Today’s page found me taking the subway to the Atlantic Terminal area in downtown Brooklyn, from whence I [...]
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights Downtown Brooklyn Park Slope
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BEDFORD AVENUE Part 2: Beverly Road to Atlantic Avenue
August 30, 2009Has it been two years since I began my Bedford Avenue survey with a walk along its entire length from Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay north to its beginnings at Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint? It doesn’t seem that long, but there it is. This summer I finally completed that walk, in two sections, and I’ll [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights Flatbush Leffets Gardens
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CROWN HEIGHTS conclave
July 14, 2009There’s a conclave of sorts in Crown Heights, where St. John’s, St. Charles and St. Francis Places all come together just west of Bedford Avenue. Running from 5th Avenue and Douglass Street east to 8th and Flatbush Avenues, and again from Plaza Street at Grand Army Plaza to East New York Avenue, St. John’s Place and its [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights
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MID- AND EASTERN BROOKLYN ALLEYS
September 16, 2000More than any other borough, Brooklyn pretty much adheres to the strict checkerboard grid system that was devised when its six towns coalesced into one city in the late 1800s. That’s why it’s all the more interesting when the occasional lane or alley breaks the mold and strikes off on its own. And, as in [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights Cypress Hills East Flatbush Flatbush Gravesend Windsor Terrace
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EX-AUTO SHOWROOMS
January 10, 2000Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Crown Heights Inwood Manhattan