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…
Brooklyn
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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.…
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I’ve likely shown this one before, but it’s an amazing survivor on 7th Avenue and 1st Street in Park Slope. In 1964 the Department of Traffic, as it was then…
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Gravesend historian Joseph Ditta passes along that the classic neon Harold’s for Prescriptions sign at the corner of McDonald Avenue and Avenue U, under the el station, has been replaced…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I have an affinity for subways, trains and railroads… not at the “foamer” level, but I have enough knowledge to recognize model numbers on most NYC,…
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While President Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohioan by birth, is entombed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and represented on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza’s Soldiers and Sailors Arch, his perhaps most…
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Like the rings in a tree, certain clues can help you identify the age of street signs found around NYC. This one, at Beverley Road and East 21st Street, is…
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A pair of these classic Coca-Cola signboards appear outside Michelle’s Restaurant at Bedford Avenue and Albemarle Road opposite the old Ebinger’s bakery complex. These signs may have been installed prior…