THREE blocks of New Utrecht Avenue are uncovered by an elevated train. When riding the buses all over southern Brooklyn as a kid, I was on the B35 one day…
Borough Park
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PRIOR to my visit to the NY Sign Museum, I found a good one at the beginning of a walk that took me into Borough Park, Windsor Terrace and Park…
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AUGUST is the month of my birth. I breathed my first in Maimonides Hospital, a now-sprawling complex between 9th Avenue, Fort Hamilton Parkway, 48th and 49th Streets in Borough Park,…
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A remaining vestige of the South Brooklyn Railway, a freight line owned by the MTA, trackage is shown here at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 37th Street, in a right of…
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THERE’S a curious diagonal road, in two separate pieces, in Borough Park called Old New Utrecht Road. Shown above is the two-block piece between 14th Avenue and 36th Street that…
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On a recent jaunt in Borough Park, I strolled over to Alben Square, where New Utrecht Avenue meets 11th Avenue and 46th Street, to check out the old Loew’s 46th…
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There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…
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I’ve written before about that little Brooklyn neighborhood wedged between Borough Park and Kensington, located between 36th Street, Dahill Road, Fort Hamilton Parkway (the edge of Green-Wood Cemetery) and Church…
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with SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I imagine that you weren’t aware that there’s a neighborhood called Mapleton in Brooklyn. It’s barely there anymore, as the larger neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and…
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Railroading became part of the New Utrecht Avenue story in 1863, when a steam railroad built by Charles Godfrey Gunther, a former NYC mayor, was built from the entrance to Green-Wood Cemetery…
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There is a small wedge of Brooklyn, between Church Avenue, 36th Street, Fort Hamilton Parkway and McDonald Avenue, that’s not quite Borough Park and not quite Kensington; I imagine both…
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39th Street in Brooklyn is a main route between the waterfront through Sunset Park and Borough Park. It is the first through street south of the interruption caused by Green-Wood Cemetery.…