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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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T.S. Eliot’s J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured his life with coffee spoons, but I tend to measure it with old song lyrics. I passed this apartment building at #203…
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Back in 2015 I was wandering around Cunningham Park in Fresh Meadows and somehow found my way onto the dirt bike trail. Understand, that trail wasn’t built as a way…
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It’s getting to be that time of year when all of us, or those of us who despise humid air, should genuflect in the direction of East Williamsburg, or southern…
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During a recent walk over the New Kosciuszko Bridge connecting Greenpoint and Laurel Hill, Queens, I cast my gaze downward on the Brooklyn side to Gardner Avenue and Thomas Street…
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The NetCost supermarket at 1029 Brighton Beach Avenue, just east of Coney Island Avenue where Brighton Beach Avenues escapes from under the Brighton el (B, Q) into fresh air still…
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In mid-February 2021, I was once again at my dentist’s office in Bay Ridge for some routine X-rays (no cavities were detected). There’s been a change there. I have been…
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*I’m doing something a bit different this Sunday; instead of the usual longform page, I’m doing a shorter page because I was just hired part time at Marquis Who’s Who…