In 1901, the Scottish philanthropist/industrialist Andrew Carnegie Foundation gave $5.2 million to New York City for its libraries across the five boroughs. This started a remarkable project that would go…
Brooklyn
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IT’S been donkey’s years since I’ve done an in-depth look at the lamps I call The Williamsburgs, or The Willies for short. They are colored blue (no other NYC lamppost…
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FLATBUSH Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…
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Continued from Part One On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue…
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OVER the past decade or so, a new variant on the Bell lamp fixture theme has been popping up on Brooklyn streets. I haven’t noticed them yet in any other…
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WAY back in 2011 I walked Union Street all the way from the waterfront in Carroll Gardens to Prospect Park; I haven’t yet made my way to where Union Street…
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On Sunday, March 17, 2024 I meandered around the Gowanus area and wound up walking the length of Nevins Street, which runs from Carroll Street to Flatbush Avenue in the…
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THERE are a number of iron poles that supported trolley wires scattered around NYC, especially in Brooklyn, where I can locate about a dozen or so. Here is one found…
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ONE of my favorite pastimes is to pore over old maps, especially of New York City, and note what is still there and what has disappeared. In the mid-19th Century,…
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At the triangle formed by East New York Avenue and Prospect Place where they meet Rockaway Avenue, you will find a tall building with a bricked-up picture window, as well…
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WHAT a surprise it was when, while pedaling around DUMBO on. a bicycle in the 1970s or 1980s, I took off east down Plymouth Street, navigating the Belgian blocked pavement…
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BORN and raised in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, me. And from the time Robert Moses dug a trench across the street from my house that wound up as the Gowanus Expressway,…