Brooklyn

I make no apologies for being a nostalgist. I spent my first 35 years in Bay Ridge and return often, first to visit my father, who passed away in 2003,…

The Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road runs from the  Fresh Pond RR yards in Glendale generally southwest and west, ending at the waterfront of the Narrows in…

At Ralph Avenue and Flatlands at the west end of Canrsie, near the old Canarsie High School, there’s a handsome brick building with arched windows, with entablature proclaiming it to be…

The oldest house on Jamaica Avenue is at #494, between Elton and Linwood Streets. The house was built a short time after 1800 and was located on the farm belonging…

I was staggering across the Pulaski Bridge across the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek one recent afternoon, near-crazed from the abominable 85-degree heat and pounding sun, when I was privileged…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook has been the subject of numerous Forgotten-NY photo essays over the years. On account of its geographic isolation,…

The late great Tommy Keene had a great song called “Places that Are Gone,” about what you’d expect. Periodically I go over my stash of Forgotten New York images between…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years it has been the norm in New York to demap streets by transforming them into plazas, or to give them “road…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the south side of Prospect Park is a 40-acre superblock that opened shortly after the park and designated as a military parade ground.…

Like much of the subways the BMT Brighton Line, which runs generally between East 15th and 16th Streets from Prospect Park south to Coney Island, has a complicated history. It…

In late 2004 or early 2005 I was on South 8th Street because I had been tipped off about something interesting, which I’ll get to shortly. While there, I saw a…

In the mid-1970s, the Williamsburg Bridge landing area in Brooklyn, and several streets south of it, were given this distinct lamppost design, as well as several davit-style poles — at…