As I usually do in December I rode the MTA’s “holiday special” trainset, which is a unit of older cars that the Transit Museum put together from its vintage car…

Continued from Part 1 I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some…

I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some days that were quite…

It had been awhile since I had taken a walk with the camera. For me, “awhile” means a week or more, so I was itching to get back into action…

It all started when I got wind of an ancient painted ad revealed on the corner of 5th and Flatbush Avenue from a tip from Paul Lukas of ESPN and…

Continued from Part 1 It was a gorgeous day when I did a reconnaissance walk for a since-completed Forgotten NY tour of Uptown Trinity Cemetery. So much so that when…

It was a gorgeous day when I did a reconnaissance walk for a since-completed Forgotten NY tour of Uptown Trinity Cemetery. So much so that when I was finished, I…

Continued from Part 1 Today my idea was to walk from Jamaica Estates, one of two ritzy (or mostly ritzy, in comparison to where I’ve lived) areas in northern Jamaica,…

Today my idea was to walk from Jamaica Estates, one of two ritzy (or mostly ritzy, in comparison to where I’ve lived) areas in northern Jamaica, all the way home…

Continued from Part 1 In the 1970s, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach had not become fully homogenized into the Brooklyn “beautiful mosaic” and were still rough around the…

Sheepshead Bay is well-worn territory for Forgotten NY — my first comprehensive page on the neighborhood appeared in 2006, and earlier this year I posted an account of my very…

Continued from Part 2 It was the first really hot day in May (2017), and I went forth to DUMBO on a mission. As it turns out I had to…