Brooklyn

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…

I am drawn to DUMBO quite a bit, from its stolid brick factory and warehouse buildings…to its water views…to its Belgian blocked streets suffused with ancient railroad tracks. I have…

One of the first monuments to the slain President John F. Kennedy appeared in 1965 at the north end of Grand Army Plaza. It replaced a large statue of Abraham…

I’ve mentioned it before, but as a kid, maybe between 4 and 9 years of age, one parent or another took me for joyrides on local buses in Bay Ridge…

One of these days… months … years I’ll write a Forgotten New York page on all the New York state routes that run along local streets. There are a number…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One of the great roads of Brooklyn is Eastern Parkway, a designated city landmark, the city’s first Olmstedian parkway, a ribbon of greenery connecting Prospect…