On a recent ForgottenTour we explored Love Lane, a one-block alley in Brooklyn Heights. It is the remnant of an Indian trail leading down to the water edge, and was…
Brooklyn Heights
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What’s so unusual about this particular stop sign spotted on a recent ForgottenTour in Brooklyn Heights? It’s easy to spot if you’re a NYC street sign aficionado. While most of…
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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.…