Brooklyn

I have always thought that Brooklyn should have a somewhat wary, adversarial relationship with Manhattan, albeit a cordial one. With that in mind I had no idea why a beach…

THE French Renaissance Grand Prospect Hall, 263 Prospect Avenue just south of 5th Avenue in Park Slope, was familiar to NYC viewers from its ubiquitous commercials: “We make your dreams come true!”…

THERE are a number of buildings around town, a few dozen at least, in which I can honestly say I would like to live, at least temporarily. In fact there…

In the literary world, a palimpsest refers to “a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.”…

THIS wall painting marking a cosmetics factory for Nutrine cosmetics was in decent shape when I first spotted it nearly a quarter century ago and it hasn’t faded much since.…

I may do a new series in Forgotten New York pointing out the humble beginnings of major, well-known NYC streets. Today, I’m showing you the east end of the combined…

A large, hulking brick building, currently used as a garage, stands at the NW corner of Liberty and Sheffield Avenues in East New York. A row of bricked-up windows on…

Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…

EXTENDING from Vandervoort Avenue just north of Metropolitan Avenue are a pair of odd dead ends that I would daresay would stump even the most died-in-the-wool Brooklyn street expert. Rewe Street,…

A remaining vestige of the South Brooklyn Railway, a freight line owned by the MTA, trackage is shown here at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 37th Street, in a right of…

I have been a NYC explorer since boyhood; I used to make my parents or grandmother take me on bus rides all over Brooklyn in the early to mid-60s, all…

I haven’t yet devoted a page to this genre of streetlamps that appeared in NYC in large numbers in the 1970s. I don’t know the manufacturer (help me out in…