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Lefferts Homestead, a stately structure located near the Willink park entrance at Flatbush and Ocean Avenues, near the Prospect Park B/Q subway station, is one of NYC’s many remaining Dutch homesteads. It was built by the Lefferts family in an area east of the park along the Old Flatbush Road at about where Flatbush Avenue and [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Brooklyn Prospect Park
Why was this ForgottenTour different from most other ForgottenTours? Unlike eight of the previous nine tours this one did not feature clouds, rain or rumors of rain, and thus was considerably funner than Tour 45 in Riverdale/Spuyten Duyvil, after which everyone was thoroughly soaked through, and Tour 43 on Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside, after which we entered Donovans of Woodside [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn Prospect Park
The confluence of decent weather and a ForgottenTour has been rare indeed. There was one string of about 9 or 10 Tours over a couple of years that featured uniformly overcast weather if not showers as well. All that changed for Tour 36 in Prospect Park on October 26, 2008. October usually features my favorite weather [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn Prospect Park
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Prospect Park
BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent The New York City subway system was planned with a lot of standardization. Standardization was very practical for subway planners and financial backers: if each station was custom designed, costs would have risen exponentially. As a result, wall tiles, entrances, support columns, construction techniques, lighting techniques and kiosks (for the [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan mosaics Prospect Park Queens
Music Pagoda DURING my years in Brooklyn, before moving to Flushing in 1993, I developed a keen interest in Prospect Park, which was strange because, in my youthful peregrinations both with my parents and by myself I really hadn’t thought about the big park that much. By the 1980s, though, I would take the B63 5th [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Parks Prospect Park
When your webmaster lived in Bay Ridge, before 1993, I would often wander Prospect Park’s paths and would delightfully discover its massive arches and small wooden bridges, and spans seemingly made of boulders. I never forgot them; and the internet gives me the opportunity to indulge my affection for… Manhattan’s Central Park isn’t about to [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Prospect Park
