I’m perhaps late with this one, but word recently trickled back to me that a Forgotten New York favorite, the Avenue H stationhouse, had had a makeover, after it survived a…
Brooklyn
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Today’s post unites the neighborhods of Far Rockaway, Queens, and Bushwick, Brooklyn, where you will find a pair of the oldest variety of one-way signs remaining in New York City.…
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The road now known as Coney Island Avenue has been in existence since the early 1820s, when a north-south road was laid out in eastern Gravesend running south to the…
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Pictured here is a small piece of dead-end road emanating from East 83rd Street south of Avenue J. The road once ran continuously from East 83rd northeast to Grace Church…
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When I was a kid my parents and I would go on lengthy trips of exploration on local buses, and one of the routes was the B-63 which ran down…
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It’s well-known, at least by me, that among franchised lengthy sandwiches (known by different names in different parts of the country) the Blimpie sandwich is vastly superior to the Subway…
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On ForgottenTour #34 in June 2008, which crossed the Manhattan and then Brooklyn Bridges, we spotted the Telectroscope that was installed on Fulton Landing (Old Fulton and Furman Streets in…
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Fletcher’s Castoria, the kids’ upset stomach remedy, was sold for much of the 20th Century and was heavily advertised with painted ads on what seemed to be every available brick…
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I was fooled the other day when, stumbling through Dyker Heights, I spotted a lawn icon showing a bit of leg. I was reminded of St. Peregrine of the Friar…
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This decommissioned NYC FDNY fire alarm has stood on the corner of 6th Avenue and 77th Street in Bay Ridge for eons, or at least since I was a wee…
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While other parts of town are touted as featuring the twin virtues “vibrant” and “diverse,” Bay Ridge features flags from the world over along its streets, mounted on head-high flagpoles…
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Willow Place is a southern “extension” of the somewhat longer Willow Street, separated by 3 blocks between Pierrepont and Joralemon Streets west of Hicks Street. Its one block length has…