Brooklyn

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On its route between Grand Army Plaza and Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway is a designated city scenic landmark, the first Olmstedian parkway. While its…

Just barely readable on this peak-roofed brick building on Steuben Street, across from Steuben Park at the BQE, are the words “Wm.B.A. Jurgens” and above it “Brooklyn 1898” which is…

I traveled to Sunset Park on a humid, overcast afternoon in September to take a look at some railroad tracks. A few days earlier, I had been horrified to see…

While the other kids were out playing stickball, running in the street or causing various ruckuses in the age before Xbox, I was busy in my room doing a singular…

Work continues — albeit at what seems to be a snail’s pace — at rehabilitating the landmarked Weir Greenhouse at 5th Avenue and 25th Street, opposite Green-Wood Cemetery’s main entrance;…

I was wandering around in that nebulous area of Brooklyn between the waterfront and Green-Wood Cemetery, between about 24th and 36th Streets. This area had never been identified as part…

In a neighborhood chockablock with rich architectural forms, Public School 39, at 6th Avenue and 8th Street in Park Slope, is a standout even among such nearby treasures as the…

East Flatbush and Flatlands comprise block upon block of neat, well-kept detached homes, with an occasional shopping strip and apartment building for contrast. Its southern flank, Mill Basin, was the…

I write this the day I turn 63. I feel terrific! Except some mornings, when my back is sore and only walking around will ease it. An affliction tailor-made for…

Unfortunately I don’t get into eastern Bedford-Stuyvesant much, but a couple of structures at Ralph Avenue and Quincy Street recently attracted my notice. The dilapidated building shown above is the…

There’s on odd little alley running between Empire Boulevard and Montgomery Street just east of Nostrand Avenue called Clove Road. Its only intersection is with a short piece of Malbone…

Just a quickie today, while other pages are in the works… You could do worse than be laid out at the F.G. Guido Funeral Home at #440 Clinton Street, at…