WORD comes that the two distinctive Belt Parkway pedestrian bridges that go over the parkway to the bike/pedestrian path along the Narrows are under demolition and will be replaced. I…
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THERE aren’t that many “original” Type F lampposts remaining in New York City. In fact, off the top of my head, I can rattle off the locations where you can…
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I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in…
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JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek…
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WHEN the NYC Department of Purchase Building, at Water and New Dock Streets under the Brooklyn Bridge, was demolished in 2008, it wasn’t without protest from preservationists who wanted to…
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THE region of Brooklyn’s DUMBO in the immediate Fulton Ferry area is one of my favorite parts of town to poke around in and I hope to get back there…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WHEN driving from Queens to the heart of Brooklyn, the Jackie Robinson Parkway abruptly ends at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Bushwick…
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” — Hamlet In nearly a quarter century of wandering around New York City photographing…
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I’m not sure, but sometimes things lose just a bit of their charm when they get landmarked. Bomelstein’s Clock, #753 Manhattan Avenue between Meserole and Norman was rusty, its paint…
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I had been unaware that the former Bishop Ford High School, on 19th Street between 10th Avenue and Prospect Park West on the Park Slope-Windsor Terrace border, boasted a distinctive…
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My affinity for stolid brick buildings, whether factories or dwellings, has been stated repeatedly in FNY. Greenpoint is one of those Brooklyn neighborhoods that is changing rapidly, with glassy residential…
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In contrast to Western mores, in which some cemeteries have been left to overgrow with weeds (as happened with Prospect Cemetery in Jamaica, Queens and Sylvan Cemetery in Travis, Staten…