Since I’m working for a few weeks in one of the many buildings constructed in DUMBO (or Down Under the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridge Overpasses) by industrialist Robert Gair’s company,…
Brooklyn
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Here’s one of the stranger stories concerning one of the major NYC cemeteries, Evergreens Cemetery, which is about evenly divided between Brooklyn and Queens, the westernmost burial city in the…
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Forgotten New York, as of March 2014, has been around 16 years, and I’m glad I’m still alive, well, and contributing. Since I’m almost discussing the site in terms of…
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You can go by something dozens or hundreds of times without noticing it. For my first 35 years I was a Bay Ridge resident and I may have passed this…
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The Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, at 4th and Ovington Avenues in Bay Ridge, is one of the most beautiful buildings in NYC to ever be torn down. Known by…
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Mid-Brooklyn’s north-south avenues have a naming pattern from west to east. After Bedford and then Nostrand, they are named for major cities found going north on the Hudson River and…
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The Music Pagoda is an octagonal-shaped structure, with columns in groups of two and three, built in 1887 just west of the Nethermead, Prospect Park’s wide central lawn. Its base consists…
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Forgotten NY correspondent Gary Fonville, a former NYC bus driver, points out an anomaly on this building at Atlantic Avenue and Wyona Street that has me stumped…. …if you…
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PS 268, on East 53rd Street between Clarkson Avenue and Winthrop Street, bears an image of the Statue of Liberty on its front door, quite fitting because its namesake poet’s…
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A remaining street sign for Hamburg Avenue remains chiseled into a building at Harman Street in Bushwick, close to the Myrtle Avenue el. Bushwick in northeast Brooklyn used to be…
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If I didn’t tell you where this sign is located, your natural assumption would be Manhattan, whose Broadway runs from the Battery to the Harlem River and beyond. Actually, I…
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The New Lots Avenue station is the eastern end of the line for #3 and #4 IRT trains. This view, from NYC Subways’ 1980s collection, shows a pair of graffitied…