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FOR years I had hunted Margaret Court. No, not the famed Australian tennis champion in the 1960s and 1970s. I was seeking a short alley in Homecrest, a subdivision of…
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BORN and raised in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, me. And from the time Robert Moses dug a trench across the street from my house that wound up as the Gowanus Expressway,…
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Continued from Part 2 GETTING tired of the One and Done series yet? I’m not, I’m having fun with it. My thinking is I’ll wrap up Manhattan, then wait a…
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Continued from Part 1 I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However,…
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I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…
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I have to admit, this one caught me by surprise after almost 25 years doing Forgotten New York. I was doing some Google Maps reconnaissance of Edgewater Park, a private…
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RED Hook Lane, in Downtown Brooklyn, can be added to the list of New York City streets that are nowhere near the locations they are named for, joining routes like…
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My fascination of the narrow strip along Old Fulton Street where Brooklyn Heights meets DUMBO is ever-engrossing for me, as it has breathtaking views of Manhattan and interesting brick-dominated architecture.…
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I’ve been aware of Dennet Place, between Luquer and Nelson Streets just west of the IND elevated and Smith Street, since I first started perusing Hagstrom maps, specifically September 1968 (age…
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IT’S wrong to say that the Eastchester Bridge on Boston Road in the Bronx’s extreme northeast crosses over into Westchester County as the Hutchinson River does not form the city…
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DOUGHTY Street is one of a network of short streets and alleys adjacent to the Fulton Ferry landing that were built in the early 1800s, making them some of Brooklyn’s…
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NEW York City’s alleys aren’t often photographed; the largest troves of old photos of New York City are in the tax photos from the 1940s and 1980s in the Municipal…