I have always been a fan of this formidable Tudor Gothic edifice on Parkville Avenue, St. Rose of Lima Church, the seat of one of mid-Brooklyn’s oldest parishes. It was…
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A small traffic triangle is formed on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill by long-ago cvil engineers’ insistence on letting Washington Avenue go its own way. South of Atlantic…
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On a ForgottenTour in May 2003, Forgotten Fan Mike Olshan introduced us to Sunny Balzano (1934-2016), whose family’s bar on Conover between Beard and Reed Streets has been a Red Hook…
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I know… you were probably expecting me to cover the famed Carroll Street Bridge over Gowanus Canal, built in 1889. I’ve featured that bridge (one of 4 remaining retractile bridges…
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It’s hard to imagine Meeker Avenue without the viaduct of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway running down its center, but the diagonal byway, which separates the street patterns of Greenpoint and East…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I walked West Street in Greenpointin September 2015, and it may have been a propitious time to do so because the west end of Greenpoint is,…
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Looking somewhat like a horseshoe or, perhaps, Star Trek’s Guardian of Forever is Freedom’s Gate, a sculpture by Philadelphia- based Charles Searles (1937-2004) at Fulton Street and Ralph Avenue at…
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Howard Avenue runs in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville. The avenue was named for tavern keeper William Howard (1725-1777) who ran the Rising Sun Tavern at the Jamaica and Cripplebush roads, now…
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Red Hook was supposed to erupt in hipsters, and then follow with overdevelopment, in the template of other Brooklyn waterside areas like Williamsburg, Greenpoint and now (apparently) Sunset Park. But…
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In the summer of 2013 I walked Greenpoint’s West Street from end to end, and never got around to working on a page about what I had found. Then, a…
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The former Prudential Savings Bank on Stuyvesant and Vernon Avenues, just south of Broadway, the border of Bushwick, is a worthy sentinel at the uneasy line separating the two deep-Brooklyn…
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Many of the streets in Williamsburg and northern Bedford-Stuyvesant are named for signers of the Declaration of Independence. Not every signer is represented, but most are. Ben Franklin, George Clymer,…