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Even though I grew up mere blocks away from Dyker Beach Golf Course in Dyker Heights, I have never swung a golf club in my life. Who can afford golf clubs? And anyway, golf seems like a tremendously frustrating game if you’re not good at it — you have to chase a little white ball [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Roads Tagged with: Brooklyn Dyker Heights
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Dyker Heights
CONTINUED FROM WHERE THE STREET HAD NO NAME, PART 1 WAYFARING MAP: FROM DYKER BEACH TO BATH BEACH (open map in a separate window so you can follow my route) Where the Street Had No Name For decades, I’ve been fascinated with the broad, 4-lane route that connects 7th Avenue at Poly Place and Cropsey Avenue at [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bath Beach Brooklyn Dyker Heights
I am sure Forgotten aficionados have noticed that my trips back to “the old country”, i.e. my former neighborhood, Bay Ridge, tend to be nostalgic. I make no apologies. I am an enthusiastic nostalgist: while I sometimes cannot remember what I had for lunch yesterday, I remember who was with me on certain days 20 years [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bath Beach Brooklyn Dyker Heights
Though I lived in Bay Ridge and knew Dyker Heights, Brooklyn well, I had never thought to walk or even cycle 13th Avenue its entire length. It’s a compact avenue exactly 50 blocks long between 36th and 86th Streets, and since I’m doing the walk–the-entire-avenue thing lately, I thought 13th would be a lot quicker than, say, Bedford [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Borough Park Brooklyn Dyker Heights
Wedges, scoopers, turtlebeaks and nozzles! When the talk turns to street lighting, as it often does with me and Forgotten Fans (remember those cone-shaped things that turned up on bishops crooks in the mid-40s? Remember when they changed the orange fire alarm lights from globular to cylindrical? Why did they tear down those weird vertical [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Brooklyn Corona Dyker Heights General Electric Jamaica New Brighton Queens Staten Island Westinghouse
Once upon a time, New York City avenues were dominated by a long-armed, chocolate-colored cast-iron pole that my fellow lamppost maven Jeff Saltzman (whose site you can reach here) calls the “Corvingtons” although I doubt the Department Of Transportation ever gave them a real name. While side streets mostly had Bishop Crook poles, or a [...]
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