Bay Ridge

Painted ads on the sides of buildings are almost a lost art, though the remnants of such signs can still be seen, in some cases, over 100 years after they…

Saturday, August 17th was yet another bright and sunny day for a ForgottenTour (as most have been in 2012 and 2013) and over 40 ForgottenFans turned up for a walk…

I have been featuring Bay Ridge quite a bit this year — a ForgottenTour visited on 8/17/13 — and since my dentist is still there, I find myself going back…

This Spanish Mission style house faces Shore Road near 92nd Street in Bay Ridge. Shore Road, which twists and turns along the ridges overlooking the Narrows, was developed early on…

My father was the custodian for this building on the corner of 5th Avenue and 85th Street in Bay Ridge as a side job for many years. For almost as…

This awning sign on 86th Street near 5th Avenue is actually now one of the more venerable signs on the street, dating to 1981 or so. There was originally a…

On a standpipe on 77th Street near 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge. I’m going to have to start looking for barber poles around town, but many of the “good,” standalone…

There was this grand old faded ad for a shoe shine place at the subway entrance/exit at 95th Street and 4th Avenue seen here. It could have gone all the…

The Owls Head Sewage Treatment Plant, on the outskirts of beautiful Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is accessible by roads from Bay Ridge Avenue (69th Street) and from the Belt Parkway. The…

I have lived on, or very near, 6th Avenue in Bay Ridge three times. My first couple of decades were spent in my parents’ 2-bedroom apartment at 8302 6th Avenue…

Despite the protests of congregants, preservationists and neighbors, the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, popularly known as the Green Church, was razed in 2008. From my Ovington Avenue page: The “Green Church”…

I was in my old neighborhood, Bay Ridge, when I noticed some standout signs along 3rd and 5th Avenues. This one for a bike shop on 5th Avenue and 73rd…