Bay Ridge

Today’s featured walk sent me from Bay Ridge after a dental appointment southeast and east through Sunset Park and Borough Park at the border of Kensington. Well-worn territory for me,…

Norwegian-American-Irish coalition, 5th Avenue, Bay Ridge

1/9/13: ***HINSCH’s DOOMED AGAIN, as its new owners couldn’t make a profit.*** 10/17/11: ***HINSCH’S  SAVED, as the owners of Skinflint’s on 5th will operate it.**** I’ll admit it, I had…

Exit, or is is it entrance, at 7th Avenue and 86th Street, Nathan’s, 2005. The sign has since been replaced with something with a little more sense.

Time to delve once more into the Bob Mulero collection of lampposts. Bob and I achieved our separate lamppost obsessions separately: while both us have been enthusiastically noting the state of…

I stumbled desultorily through the lost neighborhood of a vanished youth, a broken man with broken teeth. When I visit Bay Ridge these days it is mostly to visit my…

Parts of New York City are very steep and hilly. To allow access to the hillier areas, engineers have occasionally inserted step streets into the grid to allow foot traffic acess to private…

Bay Ridge is the land of my youth. It is also the land of my dentist, and I will be spending three Saturdays, at least, in Bay Ridge as my mouth…

Three boroughs have a major road called 3rd Avenue: Manhattan’s 3rd Avenue runs from Cooper Square north to the Harlem River and officially extends into the Bronx as Third Avenue…

While walking uptown during Summer Streets 2010 I passed by two of New York City’s most picturesque relics at Park Avenue and East 46th, at the tunnel that takes the Park Avenue…

I try to keep Forgotten New York from turning into the Nostalgia Page of the Week, but when I am in Bay Ridge, I always have nostalgic thoughts, since I…

There are entire sections of Brooklyn, probably New York City’s borough that hews most rigidly to the grid concept, that have no cul de sacs or alleys whatsoever; think of Sunset…