Brooklyn

I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…

I was fresh from the “Parade of Trains,” an MTA event in which BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated cars from 1900-1910, BRT/BMT Standards and BMT Triplex Cars from the 1920s, and R1/R9…

Here’s a photo from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated 9/6/1913 of “the New Blythebourne Post Office.” But where is Blythebourne? A hint is given in the caption — 13th Avenue…

I am feeling a little wearied from composing multipart Sunday pages, so I think I’ll reach back into my mixed bag of tricks. I haven’t done one of these tutti…

Marie Delores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert (1824-1861) was born in Limerick, Ireland, but was raised in Scotland, educated in Bath in England and in Paris, and gained fame as “Lola Montez, the…

Ocean Hill is a small triangular section of Bedford-Stuyvesant located between Malcolm X Boulevard (formerly Reid Avenue) and the V formed by Broadway and Fulton Street and Broadway Junction. Here you…

For years it was, for me, the Holy Grail of ancient lamppost photo opportunities: an original Corvington lamppost trapped behind the gates of a Con Edison substation like a bug…

The Department of Transportation recently bagged another pair of ancient street signs in Brooklyn recently, as on today’s Fort Greene foray I found the pair shown here had finally been…

Forgotten NY has appeared in all three of NYC’s daily papers over the years, in articles about the website and the book and also articles written by me. I once…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the windswept block of West 24th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage…

The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…

In 1999 I investigated and photographed a Canarsie dead end called Savage Lane, which I have found on only one map: the Colorprint NYC atlas produced by the American Map…