I haven’t been in this stretch of Borough Park, at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 60th Street, for a year and a half at least, but I have always had a…
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Claver Place runs for two blocks from Fulton Street north to Putnam Avenue just east of Classon Avenue. Nothing really unusual about it… until you spot the small sign on…
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Odd how I had missed out on this one, since I’m a candy store aficionado (though I limit purchases to once or twice a year, lest I become a bigger…
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This store on Grand Street east of Bushwick Avenue has been closed for some years now, but its burgundy and beige storefront sign is still persevering; I estimate it’s no…
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I have often wondered about the original purpose of this large, brick fortress-like building at the NE corner of Grand Street and Morgan Avenue in East Williamsburg, just west of…
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Erasmus Hall, named for Dutch philosopher Desiderius Erasmus, presents two historic buildings in one location at Flatbush and Church Avenues. Its white clapboard Federal-style building, constructed in 1787, housed the…
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PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year,…
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Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known…
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Maps show there has always been a traffic circle in this spot since the park opened, and the apartment buildings on Bartel-Pritchard were built along the gentle curves of the…
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The IND Subway connecting 6th Avenue, Manhattan and Church Avenue, Brooklyn, opened on July 1, 1933 (and was later connected to the Culver El in the 1950s). Along this line,…
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Near-insensate from this summer’s unrelenting heat, I sweated my way up 9th Street early in August 2015 to scout an upcoming tour when I spotted a gorgeous apartment house, one…
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Furman Street runs north from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street along the East River waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. It has undergone two separate areas of feverish activity, separated by an…