Brooklyn

I am sure Forgotten aficionados have noticed that my trips back to “the old country”, i.e. my former neighborhood, Bay Ridge, tend to be nostalgic. I make no apologies. I am…

Your webmaster didn’t attend Open House New York this year. Things came up, as they sometimes will. So, I charged my acolytes (OK, I asked them nicely) to attend in…

Writing Forgotten New York, the book, was an exhausting yet exhilarating experience. There were a lot of hours hunched over a keyboard in my non-air conditioned living room, but as many hours…

CONTINUED FROM PART 2 Leaving behind the Yellow Submarine for now, Marie, Duke and Mike pressed on east and followed Coney Island Creek to its end at Shell Road….  …

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Ship graveyard of Coney Island Creek: for years I had believed that the Yellow Submarine was still there in the creek, but I was looking in…

For years I thought it was just a rumor, or if it did exist, it was at the bottom of Davey Jones’s Locker. But some intrepid Forgotten Fans have found…

Though I lived in Bay Ridge and knew Dyker Heights, Brooklyn well, I had never thought to walk or even cycle 13th Avenue its entire length. It’s a compact avenue exactly 50 blocks…

Photographer and writer: FNY correspondent Gary Fonville As with many courthouses around the city , in use or abandoned, many former precincts are still standing. The buildings shown below were built…

My first memories of Williamsburg came during ages 14-17, when our high school bowling team (on our way to getting whomped by St. Francis Prep and Xaverian) would pile into a…

New York has a marvelous collection of neon signs, and while we’ve heretofore collected scads of them on previous Signs pages we’ve never previously done a Neon Nights page, when…

On this page I continue to explore the fascination I have with the human faces, monstrous images, or combinations of both, that appear on buildings around town that were mostly built in…

Scandinavians have largely disappeared from Bay Ridge and Sunset Park, just as other neighborhoods have radically changed over the years. Immigrants from northern Europe first began arriving in Brooklyn in great…