WHAT is now called Shore Parkway was constructed as the Circumferential Parkway in 1940 but the official name was changed, soon enough, to Shore Parkway to the delight of sign…
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In the summer of 2010, I was immensely happy to be able to mount an exhibit at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg that I put together with MTA employee Robert…
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In 1964, the R-32 “Brightliner” cars manufactured by the Budd Company (in business as a contractor from 1912-2014) were placed in service on BMT and IND lines in the NYC…
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Time for another entry in Sergey Kadinsky’s ongoing series featuring ethnic parks and monuments, following Irish Town, Latino Town and Italian Town. Once again, listings are not presented in strict…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post FROM late February through the end of March, I had a few occasions that necessitated riding the J train, during midday periods from Sutphin…
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This building at 107 South 6th Street in Williamsburg, just north of its junction with Broadway and Bedford, is the former front of the Bedford Avenue or Empire Theatre and then…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, I…
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JENNY Faber, a member of the Faber pencil manufacturing family, lived in Port Richmond and in 1869 was granted a patent to the land along the Kill Van Kull in Port…
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AFTER having the list of city parks named after Irish-Americans deleted on Wikipedia for stupid reasons, I brought it back to life on this website. Following on that example, here…
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I was unsteadily rambling north on West 8th Street in Gravesend in November 2025 when, south of Kings Highway, I noticed some attached houses that were a “cut above” the…
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THERE are over a dozen streets in NYC named “Mill,” and I have always been interested in them because they point to waterside mills, most of which were torn down…
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FORGOTTEN Fan Steve Stein passes along a pair of recent photos taken at 39th Street and 5th Avenue in Sunset Park showing some unearthed trolley tracks, and a bit of…