Brooklyn

As I have said recently I have been fascinated with the smaller directional signage found in IND stations built mostly in the 1930s. At the Greenpoint Avenue stop in Brooklyn,…

METROPOLITAN Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in the mid-1810s as a toll road and was known as the Williamsburg and…

We didn’t have air conditioning in our apartment growing up. Then again, heat and humidity spells didn’t last quite as long in my youth as they do now. That’s likely…

ACCORDING to the NY Public Library website, the Brooklyn Business Library “has a reference collection of more than 100,000 volumes, a circulating collection of 30,000 books, internet access, electronic resources, 800…

MANY think I have nothing good to say about new architecture. Nonsense. Here’s a new building I like, at #78 Amity Street, on the corner of Hicks. It employs classic…

On a rare clear weekend day in February, I strolled through Williamsburg, a neighborhood I have had a hard time getting a handle on as it is ever-changing; when I…

BACK in April 2024, I walked 5th Avenue in Park Slope, since I haven’t done so in a few years. Recently, I’ve been more drawn to commercial strips because of…

I was tipped about a pair of vintage-looking Brooklyn street signs here at New Utrecht and 17th Avenues in Bensonhurst. They look real but were actually installed as movie props,…

SOMETIMES, the only thing that keeps ads painted on walls from fading into oblivion is the quality of paint used. Can it stand up to pollution and rain and can…

SADLY, the last time I was able to get a photo of this enamel and metal sign on Auburn Place in Fort Greene was in 2016. It was paired with…

HERE at the IND Fort Hamilton Parkway station on the IND serving the F and G lines, we have a case of unplanned redundancy in the fare control area. The…

AS the years pass, more and more of the “faded ads” that I encountered in Forgotten NY’s early days 25 years ago are disappearing or ravaged by the elements. And…