Ft. Greene Park and the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument Fortgotten Greene on this website? Can’t be…after all, this neighborhood is emblematic of urban revitalization that has come to Brooklyn since the 1980s,…
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Brooklyn’s Sheepshead Bay, named for the fish that used to be abundant there, has been occupied by Europeans since the 1640s when English noblewoman Lady Deborah Moody planned the village…
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A walk in the neighborhoods of any of the five boroughs reveals the practical and pragmatic philosophy…’if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ You’ll see some signs that have been…
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Though the MTA is relentlessly diligent when it comes to standardizing the signage of New York’s 468 subway stations, replacing the gorgeous enamel signs of old with standard black and…
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NEON BILLBOARDS OF FORGOTTEN BUSINESSES So there’s this building in Red Hook with a gigantic neon billboard framework on it, and the other letters of the ad are long gone…
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BROOKLYN’S HARBORSIDE RAILROADS Years ago, the bustling Brooklyn waterfront,notably in Williamsburg, under the Manhattan Bridge, and Sunset Park, was home to a number of railroads that served busy shipping and…
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“Few men in all history … have ever been made to suffer so bitterly and so inexpressibly as I because of the assertion of my achievement.” Was Dr. Frederick A.…
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And now we come to one of the true hidden marvels of New York City, an ‘enchanted village’ a vision of one man’s mind. It’s located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the borough’s northernmost…
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New York City used to be an el town. Beginning in the 1870s on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, dozens of elevated lines rose and swift travel over traffic-clogged streets became…
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These ain’t your usual pigeons perched in a tree on Campus Road near Brooklyn College. College visitors, treated to a flash of green and a squawk, scratch their hreads in…
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Continued from Part 1 “DOWNTOWN” BROOKLYN, FULTON FERRY, ‘DUMBO’ These three areas, on the present-day map pf Brooklyn, encompass all the territory north and east of Old Fulton Street/Cadman Plaza West,…
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Much of downtown Brooklyn, which for my purposes includes Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Vinegar Hill, Red Hook and part of Fort Greene, no longer exists. It used to be home to a collection of streets…