Brooklyn

I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed this classic awning sign on 8th Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue in Dyker Heights, since I must have passed it every day on the…

  I have a 30-year history with Zeke’s Roast Beef, which served my dining needs once per week when I lived on 73rd Street and 7th Avenue in Bay Ridge…

I have visited Greenpoint a great deal for FNY pages, and have conducted two FNY tours in the Garden Spot of Brooklyn over 15 years. My last major survey, though,…

Every so often comes along a real head-scratcher. This is an ordinary looking 2-family house on 6th Avenue and 76th Street in Bay Ridge. It was built in the early…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   In the 1870s, the southern shoreline of Manhattan Beach was straightened with an 8-block waterfront walkway running between the southern ends of Corbin Place…

I have no intention to Dylan Thomas you, or even Greg Lake you, with this particular page. I decided, after a recent tour of the Brooklyn Army Terminal on the…

This nearly rusted-through sign on 73rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues (my former block) was rusty when I moved there in 1982. There are plenty of these type of…

Of the many bridges that cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek, which includes the Pulaski (McGuiness Boulevard), J.J. Byrne (Greenpoint Avenue) Kosciuszko (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Metropolitan Avenue bridge, and…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only President elected for four terms, served from 1933 to 1945, seeing the USA through the Great Depression and most of World War II. He…

Two otherwise unconnected women whose names are separated by a single letter are remembered on street signs in Woodside, Queens and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. In 1995 the corner of 31st…

Here’s a huge bronze trumpeting angel in Bushwick’s Evergreens Cemetery at the memorial of Bernhard Hammer (1836-1905) and other family members. The Latin inscription on the crest, Malleum incude malim,…

I had never known where the entrance was for the Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street station on the Canarsie Line, popularly known as the L train. I was always looking around for…