Gary Fonville found a palimpsest of painted-on-glass signs at Bushwick Avenue and Moffat Street, GROCERY and EX-LAX, THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE. Not sure which came first. I wonder what gastrointestinal medication…
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Cascade Linen Service, which supplied table napkins and tablecloths to restaurants citywide, called this modest red brick building at Myrtle and Marcy Avenues home from 1898-2010, but developers have had…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving…
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Havemeyer Park was recently [2012] hewn out of what was formerly an empty lot and before that, a series of warehouses connected by a waterside railroad along Kent Avenue between…
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In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over town most…
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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and…
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Continued from Part One MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville has assisted FNY in finding odd stuff around town almost since FNY’s beginning in 1999. Here, he turns…
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MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville has assisted FNY in finding odd stuff around town almost since FNY’s beginning in 1999. Here, he turns his attention to bank…
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Stenciled signs for the “chocolated laxative” appeared frequently on drugstore windows frequently in the early to mid-20th Century, and several more can be found concealed under newer awnings, or in…
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59 Hicks Street, at the northeast corner of Cranberry Street, was the longtime home of the Heights Veterinary Hospital. It’s one of the oldest buildings in Brooklyn Heights, as it…
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The “Hot Bird” chicken franchise originated in the mid-1970s in Brooklyn, with three prominent, yet simply designed, painted ads scattered around western Brooklyn. The barb-b-que franchise clucked its last in…
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After a walk east on Bergen Street from Cobble Hill, the sun was beginning to addle my pate, so I made for the subway on Eastern Parkway down Franklin Avenue,…