By PATRICK O’CONNORGuest post I’ve always been fascinated by the inaccessible islands of the New York City archipelago. I purposefully use the term inaccessible rather than abandoned. Many of the…
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In recent Lower East Side wanderings I came once again to one of NYC’s best Roman Catholic mini-cities, way over in the far east of the Lower East, at Pitt…
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CANARSIE is named for the indigenous Canarsee Indians the Dutch found in residence when they arrived in the 1640s. The name “Canarsee”’s etymology is in dispute, but it some scholars…
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Continued from Avenue B FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few exceptions, from A…
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SOMETIMES historic buildings are hiding in plain sight. Take this unassuming two-story house on Woodrow Road and Rossville Avenue, in an area that has gone from rural to suburban to…
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THIS building on the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and East 45th looms large in my memory. From 1982-1988, I was in the building most nights between 2 and 3…
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HERE’S a tableau that’ll be familiar to Bronx residents in Norwood and Bedford Park: the Mosholu Parkway and in the background, the Tracey Towers. Mosholu Parkway is among the many…
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THIS past May I went on a couple of swings through Kingsbridge Heights along Bailey Avenue and Kingsbridge Terrace, in Kingsbridge Heights, which are positioned on a steep ridge the…
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CONTINUING a series begun on Avenue A earlier in the month, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few…
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I have not spent much time in East Flatbush lately or even over the years; in fact I used to bicycle through more frequently when I lived in Brooklyn. Once…
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THE west end of Rutland Road in central Brooklyn runs through one of Brooklyn’s most attractive neighborhoods, Lefferts Gardens; indeed the west end is part of a landmarked district, and…
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JANUARY 18, 2025 was drab and drizzly, but 45 degrees and I thought I would head out before an expected snowfall and weeklong cold spell. I have wandered up the…