Back in Bay Ridge again, eh? I can’t help it, I lived there for 35 years after my birth at Maimonides Hospital in Borough Park in 1957. Gradually my connections…
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John Paul Jones Park is the site of one of the three 20-inch Rodman guns ever produced. Fort Hamilton, in 1864, tested this new cannon, designed by Capt. Thomas Jefferson…
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For a couple of decades, the Jungle Cafe with its modern green and white facade occupied the corner of 996 Manhattan Avenue at Huron Street, with a clock perpetually stopped…
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Tucked away on Highland Boulevard west of Vermont Place are a pair of somewhat mysterious buildings as well as a stone wall with religious statuary that is topped by barbed…
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In East New York for most of its length, Barbey Street, named for Andrew Barbey of the 19th Century Barbey and Sackman real estate developing firm (there is also a…
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In all the years I’ve been coming to Red Hook, this lengthy red brick building at the corner of Coffey and Ferris streets, opposite the Louis Valentino Pier, has always…
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Bill Newkirk of Newkirk Images sent this photo over of Myrtle Avenue at Jay Street looking east. Just about everything in this photo except the building on the left, #88…
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Every so often retired MTA bus driver Gary Fonville sends me some things he’s found, having spotted them on his old bus routes or in the trains. As often as…
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On a ForgottenTour the other day I saw something in the sidewalk at the NW corner of Van Brunt and Coffey Streets I had never seen before, which proves that…
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Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871, acquiring the patent from its inventor Dr. Samuel Pitcher. The medicine was heavily promoted on ads…
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Some time ago I received a gift card for Greenlight Bookstore, an indie bookstore on Fulton Street in Fort Greene. I had forgotten about it for awhile even though it…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…