ForgottenFans gathered at the statue of Major General G. Kemble Warren (1830-1882) on August 23, 2105 for ForgottenTour #97 in Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to investigate some of the little-known…
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On ForgottenTour #96, August 9, 2015, we walked up 9th Street and then Prospect Park to 15th Street and took in some little-known aspects of the neighborhood… The Charles…
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What appears to be a fairly doctrinaire one-story brick warehouse on Neptune Avenue and West 21st Street, a couple of blocks from the Coney Island boardwalk… Is now a…
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Lisa, a friend from Philly, said she wanted to eat at Chip Shop in Brooklyn, so we headed to its sole remaining location at 129 Atlantic Avenue at Henry…
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A few weeks ago I walked Meserole Street west, then Montrose Avenue (which is a block south of Meserole) east, then Bushwick Avenue as far south as the Aberdeen Street…
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Prospect Park’s Music Pagoda sits at the north end of the Nethermead and just south of the “wilderness” (actually a carefully-crafted region) known as the Ravine. The Pagoda is an…
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I’ve found something og a mystery at the SW corner of Franklin and Oak Streets in Greenpoint… a chiseled sign showing Oak as Madison. As mentioned on a previous Greenpoint…
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I was stumbling around Canarsie, crazed from the 75-degree heat in October, when I spotted a reminder of how technologies considered cutting-edge in their day seem comically out of time…
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I was in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn the other day and I noticed that the original sign of the old St. Clair Restaurant at Atlantic avenue and Smith Streets had…
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Vinyl signs that had been installed on a drugstore on the corner of Ralph Avenue and Park Place have recently been removed, revealing a pair of signs from different eras:…
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The “City of Churches” has lost more of its more distinctive steeples as the former St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, dedicated in 1892, is…
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In northern Brooklyn, you have to watch your step and be careful. Careful inspection of street signs, that is. Up there, there are two streets called Meserole. The first, Meserole…