FEW Brooklynites prefer to admit it but Brooklyn is indeed the western end of Long Island. Long Island University still acknowledges this, but the Long Island Historical Society long ago…
Brooklyn Heights
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TIME for some more “gloaming roaming,” as this time I was stumbling around DUMBO on the day after Christmas 2021. It remains a favorite part of town despite the plethora…
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A new addition to the streetside infrastructure the last couple of years has been charging stations for electric-powered vehicles. If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you saw electric…
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YOU have probably never heard of James Weir, he lived and died in the 19th Century. But his fingerprints can still be found in Brooklyn. Montague Street in recent years…
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FROM the Forgotten New York archives of January 2018 comes this look at the first Squibb Bridge spanning Furman Street, from Squibb Park at Columbia Heights north of Cranberry Street…
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Word came this week that my alma mater, St. Francis College, which I attended from 1975-1980, will be moving out of its longtime home at #180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights,…
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After finishing my walk on State Street, I continued into Brooklyn Bridge Park to take a look, but that’s perhaps a page for another day. To get there, I went…
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I was bemused by an article in the NY Times by columnist Lindsay Crouse, about how her life was changed by being unable to run outdoors during the covid pandemic.…
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In November 2020 I was in the mood for a compact voyage of discovery on a crisp fall day and I recognized I had not yet walked the entire length…
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Over on my Facebook page (you should try it — if you’re a Facebook subscriber, “friend me” — it’s 100% fun with no nastiness, politics and personal attacks) I occasionally…
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Now home to an ice cream franchise, this building, opened in 1926, was formerly used to berth fireboats and dry firehoses, hence the tower. On this spot, at the north…
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Take a residential neighborhood, build a linear pedestrian park spanning several city blocks, add spectacular views across a nearby body of water, shake and stir. The recipe for overdevelopment, gentrification…