Continued from Part 2 THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…
Bedford-Stuyvesant
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FOR years, I’ve noticed that many liquor stores in the five boroughs have the same signage they must have had decades ago…whether they’re ceramic, painted signs or my favorite, NEON.…
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SOMETIMES, the only thing that keeps ads painted on walls from fading into oblivion is the quality of paint used. Can it stand up to pollution and rain and can…
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On the very same foray in the spring of 2016 in Prospect Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant in which I snapped the old Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of…
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In the spring of 2016 I was teetering around the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street just east of Classon when I spotted this lengthy brown stucco-surfaced building at #1068.…
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FORGOTTEN New York, believe it or not, does get some complaints. A recent one (maybe the Comments section, Twitter, or Facebook) is that the book did not discuss enough Bedford-Stuyvesant,…
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I have written before about Beverly Road in Brooklyn, which runs from Kensington all the way east through Flatbush to the border of Brownsville, since the city really can’t decide…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the map, the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn appears nearly unchanged since the mid-19th century, with few superblocks, and not one grid-defiant street. But on…
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Unfortunately I don’t get into eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant much, but a couple of structures at Ralph Avenue and Quincy Street recently attracted my notice. The dilapidated building shown above is the…
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Remarkably, the former Sheffield Farms bottling plant in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street at Marcy Avenue has not been protected by the Landmarks Preservation Society and thus I…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In November 2013, Kevin Walsh set out to document every street in the city that uses a full name. The list excluded honorific co-named…
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Barely discernible at this point on a garage wall on Patchen Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Madison Street is an ad for B.F. Goodrich tires. The company was founded by…