HERE’S a painted ad featuring several Brooklyn newspapers of old, since absorbed into other media, at the Kings Highway N train station. Bay News and Brooklyn Courier were once one…
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WHILE I haven’t been to East Flatbush, Mill Basin and Bergen Beach for several years, when I lived in Brooklyn I was a fairly frequent visitor as it was directly…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got…
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HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got during a June 2024…
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ORANGE Street near Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights is dominated by the 1849 Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims, where Henry Ward Beecher preached from the church’s opening until 1887. Beecher,…
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Facing the Long Meadow in Prospect Park are two historic buildings, unique in their design but diverging in their history with the Picnic House open to the public for events,…
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SINCE 1909, Flatbush Avenue has run in a nearly straight line, with only two major angles, from the Manhattan Bridge to Jamaica Bay, where the Marine Parkway (Gil Hodges) Bridge…
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THOUGH “King of the Sausage” Bari has gone, in southern Brooklyn there are still a number of “pork stores,” a combination of Italian-themed grocery and butcher. If I lived near…
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Continued from Part Three 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…
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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…
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Continued from Part One 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…
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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…