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    FORGOTTENTOUR #79: Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Bridge Park

    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh June 18, 2014 0 comment

    FNY’s amazing run of pleasant tour weather, which began in mid-2012 and has carried well into 2014, continued on June 14th when over two dozen ForgottenFans embarked on a a…

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    WILLOW PLACE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 26, 2014 11 comments

    Willow Place is a southern “extension” of the somewhat longer Willow Street, separated by 3 blocks between Pierrepont and Joralemon Streets west of Hicks Street. Its one block length has…

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    AITKEN PLACE, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2014
    by Kevin Walsh March 14, 2014 0 comment

    Until 1960, Livingston Street in Brooklyn used to extend a block further west than it does now — past Clinton Street to Sidney Place. That year that western block was…

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  • NeighborhoodsWalks

    MIDDAGH STREET, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh September 29, 2013 31 comments

    I haven’t paid as much attention to Brooklyn Heights over the years as I have to its neighbors, DUMBO and Cobble Hill. I  hope to make up for it in…

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    BROOKLYN HEIGHTS CINEMAS

    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh August 29, 2013 4 comments

    Brooklyn Heights Cinemas is probably one of the more unassuming movie theater buildings you will ever see, occupying a landmarked brick building constructed in 1890 at #70 Henry Street in…

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    59 HICKS, Brooklyn Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh March 27, 2013 9 comments

    Brooklyn Heights is known for its attached brownstones and apartment buildings, but here and there are some freestanding buildings, as well as frame and wood houses, leftovers from the very…

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  • AlleysForgotten Slices

    BELOVED LANES around town

    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2013
    by Kevin Walsh February 14, 2013 17 comments

    Since today  (2/14) is supposed to be the holiday of love, I’ll show you a few streets around town that honor it by name…   Valentine Avenue, Bronx (Do I…

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    BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: Pier 5 before it opened

    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2012 5 comments

    Brooklyn Bridge Park is an over $200 million extravaganza, an 85-acre park along the East River from Atlantic Avenue north and northweat along the East River to Jay Street in…

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  • One Shots

    FURMAN ARCHAISMS

    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh November 29, 2012 4 comments

    Furman Street runs along the East River in Brooklyn from Atlantic Avenue north to (Old) Fulton, and since the 1950s, has mostly been accompanied by the stolid overhang of the…

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  • One ShotsStreet Lamps

    WHITESTONE on the BROOKLYN

    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh October 25, 2012 2 comments

    It’s hard to find “Whitestone” type lampposts anywhere in NYC these days, though in the 1940s and 1950s, they were the lampposts of choice on the then-fledgling NYC expressway system.…

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    SAINT FRANCIS COLLEGE and vicinity

    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh April 1, 2012 26 comments

    I don’t believe I have ever mentioned my college previously on Forgotten New York during the 13 years since 1999 that I have been producing this, your website chronicling the…

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  • One ShotsSigns

    KEEP LOOKING DOWN

    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2012
    by Kevin Walsh March 22, 2012 2 comments

    Older sidewalks, like this one in Brooklyn Heights, often include metal name plates identifying the manufacturer. Most of them went out of business decades ago.

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