It’s quite possible that everyone who ever worked at Kranich Soap, or used the products made here at 54-60 Richards Street at Delevan Street in Red Hook, is dead by now.…
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Continued from Part 1 Time for another entry in Puzzlements, Forgotten New York’s examination of noncontextual street names, especially named streets smack in the middle of areas featuring numbered or lettered…
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Today’s topic in Forgotten New York may be a bit confusing at first, but bear with me. Have you ever been walking through a neighborhood in which all or the…
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Continued from Part 1 In the 1970s, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach had not become fully homogenized into the Brooklyn “beautiful mosaic” and were still rough around the…
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Sheepshead Bay is well-worn territory for Forgotten NY — my first comprehensive page on the neighborhood appeared in 2006, and earlier this year I posted an account of my very…
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There are a pair of dead-end streets, Ridge and Bennett Courts, on 72nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues in Bay Ridge, my old hometown, so I’ve always been aware…
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I was doing some midweek loitering on the Marcy Avenue platform in Williamsburg, watching the trains go by. I can do this because over the past five years the copy…
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A green slotted post on 39th Road, next to the Little Neck station platform on the Long Island Rail Road, proclaims the parking rules on this stretch of road: “don’t…
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In one case in which modern MTA actually clarifies matters instead of duplicating previously existing signage or muddies the transportation waters, a 1980s vintage sign in the 45th Street station…
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I have been an infrastructure buff almost from the cradle. In my earliest years, cast-iron, ornate lampposts, mainly Corvingtons and Bishop Crooks, still ruled the streets, interspersed with newer octagonal-shafted,…
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Continued from Part 1 It was the first really hot day in May (2017), and I went forth to DUMBO on a mission. As it turns out I had to…
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photo: NYCRoads.com Here’s the Belt Parkway (officially Shore Parkway) looking west toward Starrett City (officially Spring Creek Towers) in 1974, the same year the housing project in Brooklyn’s far south…