As the trestle carrying the Culver Line elevated train (F), over Neptune Avenue, the Amalgamated Dr. James Peter Warbasse Houses loom up in the background. The co-op apartments were built by United Housing Foundation and the…
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MOST police precincts in NYC display two green lamps at the entrance. The tradition of green lights dates back to colonial times. According to the NYPD website, “It is believed…
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MAN, I’m digging the old brick factory buildings in “South Brooklyn” that have since been repurposed. 132 32nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues is just such a building, a…
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PLAIN, unadorned brick buildings, as Bernie Taupin/Elton John would put it, say so much. They are gradually disappearing around town, with those that haven’t been adapted for residential use are…
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QUESTION: When is a park not a park, but a street? Answer: When it’s Washington Park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the street at the east end of Fort Greene Park.…
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A huge factory that formerly turned out threads for the Howard Clothes Company (a men’s haberdasher), and before that, gyroscopes, stands on the west side of the pedal to the…
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FOLLOWING my revisit of upper 5th Avenue in Park Slope in early 2024 I decided to stalk south on 19th Street into the heart of Windsor Terrace, as I had…
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It turns out that Brooklyn had a “dry” or alcohol-free town decades before Staten Island’s Prohibition Park, now known as Westerleigh. While Prohibition Park was established in 1887 and strictly…
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In May 2023, I walked Humboldt Street’s near-entire length, from Flushing Avenue north to Greenpoint Avenue. In many ways it’s the north-south axis of East Williamsburg. I remember my very…
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NATHAN Hale Court is one of a number of apartment houses on Eastyern Parrkway near Franklin Avenue with patriotic names; the Thomas Jefferson is nearby. The name Nathan Hale is synonymous with…
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I recently went on a jaunt in Green-Wood Cemetery for the first time in a few years, and I’ll likely do a full page eventually; I plan another visit in…
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THE Moore Street Retail Market in East Williamsburg is a LaGuardia-era establishment on Humboldt Street, stretching from Moore to Varet Streets. Filled with produce vendors, small food stalls, crafts-makers and…