Bath Beach

I took a 5-mile walk from Coney Island through Bath Beach to the 18th Avenue station on the D elevated the other day, and I didn’t get a whole lot…

In April 2022 I went to see an old friend in Bath Beach, way down in southern Brooklyn. No, it wasn’t somebody I knew from work or school, it was…

THE Ulmer Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library is named for an amusement park and beer garden opened in 1893 at the Bath Beach waterfront along Gravesend Bay by German immigrant…

This week’s Sunday page is an expansion of an item I did for SpliceToday in November 2020. The month was pretty mild and I was in the mood for some…

There are three Independence Avenues in New York City, a lengthy one and two short ones. The first one, depicted above, runs through the far northern Bronx in Spuyten Duyvil…

It was a pretty dull day, lead-pipe overcast, but it was a weekend, and I prefer not to travel much for Forgotten New York outings during the week because of…

A look at a modern-day map shows Cropsey Avenue, the main artery of Bath Beach, make a sharp southward turn at about 24th Avenue, crossing Coney Island Creek over a…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In my appreciation of the city’s eternal green public spaces, I enjoy documenting the history of parks big and small. Throughout the Five Boroughs,…

I have not allowed the debilitating heat and humidity of one of the hottest New York summers in years [2010] in this age of accursed global warming to keep me…

When NYC had a more rural character and was dotted with farms a couple of centuries ago, grist mills, in which grain is ground into flour, were primary engines of commerce.…

CONTINUED FROM WHERE THE STREET HAD NO NAME, PART 1 WAYFARING MAP: FROM DYKER BEACH TO BATH BEACH (open map in a separate window so you can follow my route) Where…

I am sure Forgotten aficionados have noticed that my trips back to “the old country”, i.e. my former neighborhood, Bay Ridge, tend to be nostalgic. I make no apologies. I am…