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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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(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”…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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CONCORD Street and Duffield Streets are a pair of Brooklyn streets that can’t be neatly fitted into a neighborhood. They are too far east to be in Brooklyn Heights, too…
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IT’S been way too long since I have been in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn: September 2020 in fact. I came to know it very well in the 2010s, when I…
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SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…
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It’s hard to nail down my favorite building in Clinton Hill but there’s a good chance that it’s the Joseph Steele House, #200 Lafayette Avenue at Vanderbilt, one of the…