Nobody asked me, but… Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Avenue runs for miles from the Major…
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Now home to an ice cream franchise, this building, opened in 1926, was formerly used to berth fireboats and dry firehoses, hence the tower. On this spot, at the north…
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Today I have another mystery in Greenwood Heights, matching FNY’s earlier one regarding blue pavings stones from Spain. Like many mysteries, its secret is given up but grudgingly and I’ve…
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Surprisingly, there’s a lot for me to write about on 37th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue, a street on the borders of both Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights, that…
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I haven’t got much today in Forgotten New York, so I’ll go back to its roots and talk about what got me interested in infrastructure. I enjoy seeing overburdened utility…
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There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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;…
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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…