Brooklyn

It’s been over seventeen years since the very first Forgotten NY post (which concerned a repurposed trolley depot on Northern Boulevard and Woodside Avenue) and while I’ve covered a lot…

This smallest cemetery in Brooklyn, the “Revolutionary Cemetery” in Bay Ridge, at the corner of Narrows Avenue and Mackay Place, was founded in 1725 by Dutch immigrant William Harmans Barkaloo and…

Continued from Part 4 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Here’s a photo of the station ID plaque on the 50th Street station on the elevated West End Line on New Utrecht Avenue. In 1949 all BMT trains were numbered,…

Continued from Part 3 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

This no-nonsense, Machine Age sign appears at the employee entrance of the underground NYC Pitkin Avenue Yards at Sutter and Grant Avenues in East New York. Why not Sutter Avenue…

Continued from Part 2 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Glad to be with you this week — for most of the day I began to compose the page it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it, as…

Barely discernible at this point on a garage wall on Patchen Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Madison Street is an ad for B.F. Goodrich tires. The company was founded by…

On a recent jaunt in Midwood, Brooklyn I made sure to check on a pair of classic neon drugstore signs I’ve been aware of for quite some time. Unfortunately the…

I admit, I learned cursive writing in grade school but I haven’t used it since, except to write my name (I am one of those people who try to make…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent There have been many signs chronicled in FNY over the years. Many can still be read, despite their vintage Some have even faded to…