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    SANDFORD STREET, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh December 19, 2022 4 comments

    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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    NYC RELIGIOUS CONVERSIONS

    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh November 5, 2022 8 comments

    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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  • One Shots

    EMPIRE THEATRE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 18, 2020 8 comments

    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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  • Forgotten Slices

    SHEFFIELD FARMS — RESTORATION PLAZA, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2020 2 comments

    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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    HARMONY IN WEEKSVILLE

    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2017
    by Kevin Walsh February 24, 2017 1 comment

    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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    B.F. GOODRICH, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 14, 2016 0 comment

    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…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    BROOKLYN CURSIVE

    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 5, 2016 5 comments

    I admit, I learned cursive writing in grade school but I haven’t used it since, except to write my name (I am one of those people who try to make…

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  • Forgotten Slices

    LOWRY TRIANGLE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh April 2, 2016 4 comments

    A small traffic triangle is formed on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill by long-ago cvil engineers’ insistence on letting Washington Avenue go its own way. South of Atlantic…

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  • One Shots

    FREEDOM’S GATE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016 3 comments

    Looking somewhat like a horseshoe or, perhaps, Star Trek’s Guardian of Forever is Freedom’s Gate, a sculpture by Philadelphia- based Charles Searles (1937-2004) at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue at…

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  • One Shots

    THE HOWARD, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 12, 2016 2 comments

    Howard Avenue runs in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville. The avenue was named for tavern keeper William Howard (1725-1777) who ran the Rising Sun Tavern at the Jamaica and Cripplebush roads, now…

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  • One Shots

    PRUDENTIAL SAVINGS BANK, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 5, 2016 0 comment

    The former Prudential Savings Bank on Stuyvesant and Vernon Avenues, just south of Broadway, the border of Bushwick, is a worthy sentinel at the uneasy line separating the two deep-Brooklyn…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    KRASNER’S PHARMACY, Bedford-Stuyvesant

    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh October 14, 2015 11 comments

    Vinyl signs that had been installed on a drugstore on the corner of Ralph Avenue and Park Place have recently been removed, revealing a pair of signs from different eras:…

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