Brooklyn

While scuttling through Carroll Gardens last winter, attempting to remain unnoticed with my camera, I found this large war memorial in Carroll Park (between President, Carroll, Court and Smith Streets).…

I found myself in Bay Ridge a great deal in 2013, mainly because of extensive dental work, but the neighborhood, in which I lived from 1957-2003, is one I always…

The old Wythe Diner, Wythe Avenue and North 3rd in the Willieburg, still outwardly showing every bit of its 1952 Mountain View Diner Company exterior, has been operated under many…

Since the Verrazano Bridge was finished in 1964, I’ve been in John Paul Jones Park, at 4th Avenue and Shore Road-101st Street, perhaps hundreds of times, but never gave this…

In late summer 2013 I was again wandering in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, because the changes going on in these neighborhoods is accelerating to a breathtaking pace. What was once a…

In 1887, developer James Sparrow built a row of 21 four-story brick buildings along the south side of Greenpoint Avenue, just east of Franklin Street. Probably soon after that, a…

This “Berserk Eclectic” house on 111 Clarkson Avenue, off Bedford, was once a respectable Queen Anne house, with plenty of other houses in the area just as respectable. Over the…

It’s time for FNY’s peripatetic MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville to take us on a merry chase showing the signs he has seen while tooling around town,…

Getting a bit more into the weeds than most readers want, so be patient with me here — here’s a couple of gems that are disappearing from the NYC scene.…

I haven’t paid as much attention to Brooklyn Heights over the years as I have to its neighbors, DUMBO and Cobble Hill. I  hope to make up for it in…

Sackett Street, which is usually found in the pleasant stretches of Cobble Hill and the increasingly tonified Park Slope, also has this dead end stretch off Bond, the at ends…

Winston cigarettes were introduced by R.J. Reynolds in 1954 and at times, the brand has been the best-selling cigarette in the USA. Before 1971, when cigarette ads were banned on…