69th Street in Woodside and Maspeth hasn’t been known as Fisk Avenue for several decades…except on the 69th Street platform of the #7 Flushing Line el, where the ancient name…
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The buses were free in the summer of 2020, in this Year of Covid. I took somewhat advantage, traveling on the Q36 on Little Neck Parkway and Jamaica Avenue to…
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I confess, this week it’ll be a bit shorter Sunday page than usual, but I’ve been trying to shorten them lately, anyway. A couple of weeks ago Joanna and I…
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A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent When city leaders name a park after an individual, we presume that the intent is to eternally honor the namesake with a place on…
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Mayor Ed Koch named these steps leading from 1st Avenue to Tudor City at East 43rd Street in 1981 for Nathan Sharansky (1948 – ), a native Ukrainian who worked tirelessly to allow…
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I have written about Manhattan between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges previously, and way uptown there is also a pair of bridges fairly close to each other that connect two…
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I’m happy to be an East Coast guy. Wherever I go in the NYC area, I’m not far from water. I’m happy about that, even though I have never swum…
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The other day, I posted a photo of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in about 1910, remarking on what has changed and what has stayed the same since then. Today I…
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Occasionally Dyker Heights will surprise you with an aged building like this one, between 63rd and 64th on 12th Avenue, the Angel Guardian Home (later Mercy First) which sheltered unwed mothers…
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In downtown Brooklyn, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues meet at a triangle, with the third side filled by 4th Avenue. The triangle was formerly known as Times Plaza, after a long-defunct…
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I am drawn to DUMBO quite a bit, from its stolid brick factory and warehouse buildings…to its water views…to its Belgian blocked streets suffused with ancient railroad tracks. I have…