Brooklyn

I have never gotten a real handle on the Long Island Rail Road Brooklyn branch, which runs from Jamaica west to Flatbush Avenue. I’m surprised the LIRR has retained it,…

THERE are no less than 20 place names in Brooklyn named “Paerdegat.” There’s Paerdegat Park, shown below; Paerdegat Basin, which separates the communities of Bergen Beach/Georgetown and Canarsie; Paerdegat Avenue…

AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…

MUCH of the spring and into the summer I wasn’t feeling particularly well with occasional gastro issues and a bad back, but I did get out now and then until…

YOU can learn a lot from coat hangers…wood ones, at least. Newtown Historical Society president, Queen of Queens, Forgotten NY contributor and editor of Juniper Park Civic Association’s Juniper Berry…

BEFORE setting off on a Ridgewood and Bushwick walkabout recently I was pacing on the Myrtle Avenue elevated M train station (I pace back and forth like a caged animal…

YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…

WHILE beginning a jaunt in Park Slope recently I was intrigued right off the bat by this building at #230 Flatbush, between Bergen Street and 6th Avenue, with a pair…

BUILDING on yesterday’s post about the long-forgotten Dubose Lane in Cambria Heights, I was tipped by a Forgotten Fan named Danny about one that’s closer to home, in Dyker Heights,…

I am not yet ready to inaugurate a “Street Art” category in FNY, my first new category in a couple of years. Most of the best art you will find…

In late August 2024 I wandered around Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years; I have become reluctant to walk in areas without an opportunity to sit,…

WHILE C.B.J Snyder may be recognized as New York City’s premier schools architect, Cypress Hills, at the far east end of Brooklyn, has a pair of school buildings designed by…