Small, round Brooklyn-Battery of Queens-Midtown Tunnel signs, as opposed to small, round webmasters, are getting rarer. This one points traffic west on Atlantic Avenue at Bedford… H/T Gary Fonville 10/29/14
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Prospect Park’s signature tree looks even more impressive when its leaves are down. Just past the Boathouse and Lullwater Bridge, you will find what appears to be a large shrub…
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As I’ve said previously in these pages, you can find all sorts of stuff under elevated trains. Here on an el pillar at Broadway and Rutledge Street, there’s a mid-century…
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Looking east on Sutter Avenue from Van Siclen Avenue in 1966, I note from Google Earth that just about everything in this photo has now vanished. The brick apartment/storefronts have…
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I was desultorily trudging through Williamsburg on January 1, 2014 when I was reminded of the power of trolley tracks to preserve ancient streets. Johnson Avenue is a relatively busy…
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One of the extraordinary buildings we saw on the recent Ditmas Park – Flatbush FNY tour was the original parish house for the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church on East 18th Street…
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The weather hopefully began a new winning streak for ForgottenTour #84, Saturday, September 27th, with sun and 80 degrees. ForgottenFans met at the recently restored historic stationhouse at the Brighton…
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The pale yellow Greek Revival house at #70 Willow Street near Orange Street in the heart of Brooklyn Heights would be distinctive even if one of the world’s most famed…
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In August I was on my way to a gathering in Prospect Park South, near the Parade Grounds. Instead of the usual thing, the F train to Church Avenue, I…
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The back alleys of Brooklyn Heights offer, or used to offer, a variety of strange street lighting options. I found this one on the east end of Hunts Lane, a…
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There’s no Avenue Q in Brooklyn, and there’s no E or G, either; E became Foster Avenue and G became Glenwood Road long ago. The reasons for those switcheroos are…
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Why am I showing a nondescript corner in Marine Park, Quentin Road at East 35th Street? The corner seems newly remodeled, with a day care center occupying the ground floor.…