During the week I was scuttling around Floral Park, just south of Little Neck, testing out a healing sore calf and looking for some shade, since it was 95 degrees.…
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There are three Independence Avenues in New York City, a lengthy one and two short ones. The first one, depicted above, runs through the far northern Bronx in Spuyten Duyvil…
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By GARY FONVILLEForgotten NY correspondent If you have lived in NYC for a long time, you may have witnessed the disappearance of many of your favorite supermarket chains. Chains that…
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Guider Avenue is one of the shortest wide streets in Brooklyn, enjoying 4 lanes with a center median. It runs from East 12th Street at Neptune Avenue west and northwest…
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I have to explain just a little how I sort out photos for Forgotten New York. I use two cameras, one being a Panasonic Lumix. I bought a used one…
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Remarkably, the former Sheffield Farms bottling plant in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street at Marcy Avenue has not been protected by the Landmarks Preservation Society and thus I…
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I wanted to toss a page together quick and my thoughts turned to southern Brooklyn’s simple street naming scheme. The Town of Flatbush street naming system as devised in 1874…
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This spur track off the “Culver elevated” serving the F train at McDonald Avenue and Cortelyou Road is one of the only tangible reminders of the Culver Shuttle that connected…
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It’s all a matter of perspective. Unlike my pal Mitch Waxman of the Newtown Pentacle, I’m not a professional photographer, and don’t use a high-end camera with plenty of settings;…
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I found several stanzas of Desiderata outside an ice cream shop while staggering around in Park Slope back in 2011. I describe myself as practical and not especially spiritual, but…
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Saturday was a busy day in the Walsh household. The mornings called for a thorough dusting and vacuuming of the entire apartment at 8302 6th Avenue. The old man did…
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There are a pair of drugstores in Brooklyn called Silver Rod. The two stores are in about as far flung as two neighborhoods in Brooklyn can be, one in Bensonhurst…