In 1999, waiting for a train at the Smith-9th Street elevated IND station, I snapped a photo of the massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the…
Brooklyn
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Before about 2000 or so, there was an object that closely resembled a tombstone, at least from the back, at Ocean Parkway and Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. That year…
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Continued from Part 1 FNY has been spending a lot of time in Brooklyn of late, at least for the weekly longform posts, and I’ll continue in that vein this…
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FNY has been spending a lot of time in Brooklyn of late, at least for the weekly longform posts, and I’ll continue in that vein this week and next, with…
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Well-plumbed NYC territory for Forgotten NY, I realize, but it was time for my annual winter or early spring pilgrimage to Nathan’s in Coney Island. I have joined the Polar…
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In the summer of 1999 or 2000 I was riding down Brooklyn’s Broadway El, of course riding in the front car of the R-40 so I could see out the…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York is a city with 520 miles of coastline taking into account the city’s islands, inlets, coves, bays, and basins. At places where…
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It occurred to me that I had never been to Dead Horse Bay, located on the southern end of Flatbush Avenue just north of the Marine Parkway (Gil Hodges) Bridge,…
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Continued from Part 1 Not long ago I marched down 4th Avenue and 39th Street in a neighborhood called Greenwood Heights, after its position just west of Green-Wood Cemetery. A…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In my appreciation of the city’s eternal green public spaces, I enjoy documenting the history of parks big and small. Throughout the Five Boroughs,…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In November 2013, Kevin Walsh set out to document every street in the city that uses a full name. The list excluded honorific co-named…
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I am starting a new occasional series in Forgotten NY imaginatively called “Interesting Subway Stations” in which I take a station and profile both the station and the immediate surrounding…