It has been 26 years since I explored a favorite road going way back to when I lived in Brooklyn, Old New Utrecht Road. I don’t know when I first…
Borough Park
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As Queens residents know, the vast amount of its streets are numbered; in general, Avenues run west to east, while Streets run from north to south. When this system was…
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Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…
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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 were doing it on…
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In a realm where dead end alleys are few and far between, many years ago during my bicycle rides throughout Brooklyn I noted Dahl Court, a pleasant cul de sac…
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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…
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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…