Brooklyn

Now, that’s a mouthful. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when I was canvassing neighborhoods for Forgotten New York, I “reconnected” with a painted ad for Dannenhoffer Opalescent…

Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…

The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…

I know, this is hardly Forgotten, but complainers and purists, bear with me today. In June 2019, Forgotten New York’s tour of Gravesend was the best-attended of the year with…

This week’s Sunday page is an expansion of an item I did for SpliceToday in November 2020. The month was pretty mild and I was in the mood for some…

Many of the buildings along Flushing Avenue between Marcy and Tompkins Avenues are emblazoned with signs denoting the Pfizer Company. The drug manufacturer was opened by Charles Pfizer and cousin Charles…

Last week I recounted meandering on Meserole Avenue, one of Greenpoint’s east-west routes, where there were several interesting things to see. The same day, I meandered north up Franklin as…

I have been thinking more and more about where I’ll end up. My late uncle’s family has a plot in St. John’s Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens, a cemetery that…

I can get to Greenpoint pretty easily from Little Neck. Surprisingly easily. All I do is get the LIRR to Woodside, take the #7 to Court Square, go downstairs to…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent The last frontier of Brooklyn is on the shore of Jamaica Bay, where knob-shaped necks of land separated by inlets did not experience development until…

A relatively new “ghost sign” can be found at 6408 Fort Hamilton Parkway, where there is still a painted ad for Rocco’s Famous Calamari. The Italian eatery was founded by…

Occasionally Dyker Heights will surprise you with an aged building like this one, between 63rd and 64th on 12th Avenue, the Angel Guardian Home (later Mercy First) which sheltered unwed mothers…