Brooklyn

REVISITING a long-gone Forgotten New York item from the dim past, my thoughts turned to the long-vanished Enchant(ed) Villages of Greenpoint, an art installation on Herbert and North Henry near…

FOR my item on Fr. Joseph Martusciello Way in Woodhaven the other day, I mentioned that it was unusual to find someone I knew on a city street sign. Here’s…

CECILIA, you’re breakin’ my heart. The St. Cecilia Church parish was founded in 1877, while its classic church building, nearly basilica-size at Herbert and North Henry Streets, was built from…

As I have mentioned previously in Forgotten NY, when I lived in Brooklyn , I used to bicycle all over Brooklyn and several times extended into Queens and as far…

On the very same foray in the spring of 2016 in Prospect Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant in which I snapped the old Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks of…

In the spring of 2016 I was teetering around the edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street just east of Classon when I spotted this lengthy brown stucco-surfaced building at #1068.…

HERE’S a look at Furman Street from the Brooklyn Bridge. It runs nearly uninterrupted along the East River from Atlantic Avenue north to Old Fulton Street. It sits at the…

BEFORE revisiting Green-Wood Cemetery, where I haven’t been since the pandemic, I’m going over some highlights presented from past tours. It’s rather serendipitous that the founder of a major airline…

(No, he’s not forgotten, don’t quibble) EVEN the casual classical music fan knows the name Leonard Bernstein, especially if you’re over fifty. In the swinging Sixties, his “Young People’s Concerts”…

TODAY, Sunset Park, located fairly neatly between the Brooklyn waterfront, 10th Avenue/Fort Hamilton Parkway, 39th and 65th Streets, is divided fairly neatly between a Latino/Hispanic section nearer the water and…

RED Hook Lane, in Downtown Brooklyn, can be added to the list of New York City streets that are nowhere near the locations they are named for, joining routes like…

My fascination of the narrow strip along Old Fulton Street where Brooklyn Heights meets DUMBO is ever-engrossing for me, as it has breathtaking views of Manhattan and interesting brick-dominated architecture.…