The other day I poked my head in Mary Beth’s office and there, on the wall, was a picture of Liberace. I remarked that Mr. Showmanship was so square, he was cool…
Brooklyn
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CONTINUED FROM EAST WILLIAMSBURG PART 1 As we’ve seen in East Williamsburg Part 1, the region east of downtown Williamsburg is an intriguing amalgamation of abandoned, crumbling hospitals, dog-crap-littered parks, varied and…
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As much as any other neighborhood in Brooklyn, Windsor Terrace’s boundaries are rather easily defined: it’s that narrow strip, about 8 or 9 blocks at the widest, between the vast…
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It all goes back to those bus rides I used to take with my mother, father or grandmother on the B63 bus in Brooklyn that runs, then as now, all the…
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Street Lamps
ANCIEN REGIME: Before the Corvingtons and Crooks took over, there were all kinds of weird lampposts on the scene
by Kevin WalshStreetlamps powered by electricity first appeared on New York City streets in 1892, and while from about (as far as your webmaster can tell) the 1930s on, they fell into…
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The Golden Age of NYC Neon has come and gone. Believe it or not, the noble gas (since it combines with other elements only reluctantly, in lab conditions) is fairly…
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So, I was stumbling around Fort Greene one 50-degree afternoon in November and I thought I should get in some photography because the winter blasts were soon to come. As…
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Acting on a report from a ForgottenFan that the two remaining Ocean Parkway milestones (seen on this page) at Avenue P and Neptune Avenue had been removed, on Christmas Eve…
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There’s an entire subculture of people who follow trains around or are fascinated by them. In England, they’re called “trainspotters” and here in NYC, there are a group of rabid fans…
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The dominoes fall. Fourth Avenue has stubbornly resisted the mocha latte and stroller crowd as avenue after avenue in Park Slope, the venerable neighborhood punctuated by meticulously maintained row houses…
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Your webmaster had the day to himself after making anappearance on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC Radio (to promote the new Forgottenbook) on a sparkling Monday in October, and had to…
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CONTINUED FROM WHERE THE STREET HAD NO NAME, PART 1 WAYFARING MAP: FROM DYKER BEACH TO BATH BEACH (open map in a separate window so you can follow my route) Where…