Brooklyn

A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

Occasionally Dyker Heights will surprise you with an aged building like this one, between 63rd and 64th on 12th Avenue, the Angel Guardian Home (later Mercy First) which sheltered unwed mothers…

I am drawn to DUMBO quite a bit, from its stolid brick factory and warehouse buildings…to its water views…to its Belgian blocked streets suffused with ancient railroad tracks. I have…

One of the first monuments to the slain President John F. Kennedy appeared in 1965 at the north end of Grand Army Plaza. It replaced a large statue of Abraham…

I’ve mentioned it before, but as a kid, maybe between 4 and 9 years of age, one parent or another took me for joyrides on local buses in Bay Ridge…

One of these days… months … years I’ll write a Forgotten New York page on all the New York state routes that run along local streets. There are a number…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One of the great roads of Brooklyn is Eastern Parkway, a designated city landmark, the city’s first Olmstedian parkway, a ribbon of greenery connecting Prospect…

Nobody asked me, but… Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Avenue runs for miles from the Major…

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…

Today I have another mystery in Greenwood Heights, matching FNY’s earlier one regarding blue pavings stones from Spain. Like many mysteries, its secret is given up but grudgingly and I’ve…

Surprisingly, there’s a lot for me to write about on 37th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue, a street on the borders of both Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights, that…

I haven’t got much today in Forgotten New York, so I’ll go back to its roots and talk about what got me interested in infrastructure. I enjoy seeing overburdened utility…