For those who appreciate solidly built brick buildings — your webmaster raises his hand — DUMBO is a mecca. I wish the area still put thousands to work as in…
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Thousands of NYC streets are named for people. Some are presidents — likely the more famed ones such as Washington or Lincoln. Often the practice is to develop a group…
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One of the traditions in Bay Ridge along the two shopping streets, 3rd and 5th Avenues, has been mounting flags, mostly American but also other nations, on thin metal poles,…
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Greenpoint’s spine, Manhattan Avenue, was once called Union Avenue, likely named for the 1863 Union Baptist Church on Noble Street or the Union Porcelain Works, founded by Thomas Smith in…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…