The general concept of the parkway system, devised by master urban architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1860s, was to extend large parks by making the roads that connected…
Brooklyn
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I couldn’t resist posting this item in advance of some major posts on Greenpoint, to which I did extensive walks in the spring and late December of 2017. I have…
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The Duryea House in East New York is one of the Colonial-era Dutch houses that were lost before they could be landmarked. Several of these houses still stand in Brooklyn,…
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A look at a modern-day map shows Cropsey Avenue, the main artery of Bath Beach, make a sharp southward turn at about 24th Avenue, crossing Coney Island Creek over a…
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Before 1894, Flatbush in Kings County was a separate town on its own, with a separate government, police department, street layout, etc. The town was annexed by the City of…
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Some NYC subway stations have small buildings used as entrances, especially where the subway lines run in an “open cut” or a roofless tunnel. Of course on the original Interborough…
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Continued from Part 3 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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I am planning a feature on a walk I undertook from Parkville to Brownsville, Brooklyn soon enough, but here is a curiosity I couldn’t keep to myself for too long:…
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I took a couple of walks through Prospect Heights in mid-2017 and will expand on them in upcoming FNY pages, but I am always drawn like flies on sherbet to…
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I’ve known about this chiseled pair of signs, saying Boulevard and Meserole Street, at the corner of Bushwick Avenue and Meserole Street (near the Montrose avenue L train station); there is…
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photo: Greater Astoria Historical Society Today, subways are identified by pretty much everyone in NYC by their letter or number. This is a convention that has been in place going…
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The scene here is looking east on Myrtle Avenue at Prince Street in late 1970. As documented by Bill Mangahas of Newkirk Images, the Myrtle Avenue El has just been…