Brooklyn

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…

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…

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…

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,…

I was idling around Williamsburg in January 2014 and found this grand old plastic-lettered liquor store sign at Rodney (named for Caesar Rodney, the president of Delaware — before the…

A “hat tip” for ForgottenFan Paul Lukas of Uniwatch fame for finding this painted sign at a bar in Gravesend between West 9th and 10th Streets on Kings Highway at…

After a few hours of wanderings along Wyckoff Avenue, part of which forms an undefended border between Bushwick and Ridgewood, it was time to end things for the day. My…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Due to NYC’s massive subway system, there is bound to be some distinctive features. Among these differences are subway entrances. Subway entrances, something riders…

St. Mark’s Avenue runs from Park Slope in Brooklyn east from 5th Avenue to East New York Avenue in its titular neighborhood, with some interruptions. Actually it is a much…

by GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent   It seems like “mom and pop” businesses are closing at a rapid pace in NYC.  Small bakeries, pizzerias, hardware stores, donut shops have…

There are two Ford Streets in Brooklyn– just as there are two West Streets (Gravesend, Greenpoint) two West 9th Streets (Gravesend, Red Hook) and even two Atlantic Avenues (Boerum Heights…

No, it’s not what you think, this isn’t really “nude” Utrecht, and I didn’t stumble on a Spencer Tunick (link NSFW) tableau when out adventuring. I was actually on my way…