Brooklyn

To me, it’s amusing that while many office buildings do not have 13th floors, the devisors of numbered street grids in Manhattan and Brooklyn have never had problems with the…

THERE I was, half crazy from the heat and humidity, stumbling around Carroll Gardens on a July weekday, yet another neighborhood that because of income disparity I had no business…

REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…

In late June I was stalking around Greenpoint again. Over the past 6-8 months or so, my visits have been frequent, as the northern Brooklyn neighborhood is easy for me…

Teddy’s is a Williamsburg institution that has been here since 1887. A vintage stained glass sign for Peter Doelger’s Extra Beer is on the Berry Street side. The Doelgers operated…

Deep in the heart of Williamsburg is a remnant of its former street numbering system, as Roebling Street is here rendered as “Sixth Street.” North-south Williamsburg streets were originally numbered…

For my purposes the one-block stretch of 101st Avenue between Forbell and Drew Streets is one of the most unusual in the city. Why? Well, it’s the only street in…

Recently, I heard about an opportunity to visit a place I had been past a number of times, but never entered — the cemetery of the Village of New Utrecht…

I was slouching around Gravesend for a couple of hours the first day of June, after taking the D train in from Manhattan. I was going to stay longer but…

I was stumbling down Greenpoint Avenue in the dead dog heat of May (as I write this on the Memorial Day weekend, it’s 45 and pouring rain) and I saw…

I was surprised to see that Berg’n, the Prospect Heights food hall run by my former “boss” at Brownstoner Queens Jon Butler, was a Covid casualty. I would stop in…

Word came this week that my alma mater, St. Francis College, which I attended from 1975-1980, will be moving out of its longtime home at #180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights,…