Gary Fonville sends this sign pointing the way to the Marine Parkway Bridge at Utica and East New York Avenue. If you take Utica Avenue south all the way to…
Brooklyn
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Once upon a time there was a short Place called Glenada in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant. It’s now known by another name. In the crudely Photoshopped title card (do I…
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Once again, Forgotten New York avoided the deluge as a 5-inch rainstorm that Noah would have trouble navigating descended on New York — but two days before the scheduled tour.…
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In August 2013, a modest Coney Island landmark bit the dust. The iron pedestrian bridge that had connected the West 8th Street elevated train station to the Coney Island Aquarium…
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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…
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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…