MUCH of downtown Brooklyn has given up its rich collection of one-block and dead-end alleys, with a few notable exceptions, such as Grace Court, Grace Court Alley and even Harrison…
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I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…
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No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…
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KNOWING the toll modernization was taking on the island, and perhaps presciently imagining the devastation to be wreaked on Staten Island’s old and out-of-the-way places by the opening of the…
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BACK in March I walked sections of 4th and 5th Avenues in Sunset Park, an area I had neglected, at least on foot. I have traveled beneath 4th Avenue on…
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THERE are many ancient ads for wholesale clothing concerns in the Garment District, Midtown between 5th and 8th Avenues, 29th to 41st Streets. Most of them are nonsdescript, with just…
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OWLS Head Park is Bay Ridge’s largest public park, stretching between the Belt Parkway, Colonial Road and 68th Street, and its high hill provides a prime viewing spot during Brooklyn’s occasional…
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In January 1777, skirmishes occurred between the patriots and the British at Fort Washington Independence, located then where Giles Place and Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights would be, and then…
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I will use a shot from Street View today. I have been past Washington and Park Avenues in Clinton Hill a few times over the last few years, but somehow…
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On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…
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DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…
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HERE’S a Forgotten NY touchstone at #109 West 17th (west of 6th Avenue) I have come back to over and over since its location was pointed out to me by…