Brooklyn

DEEP into the Forgotten New York archives we go, to September 2017, when I staggered out of Prospect Park onto the streets of Lefferts Gardens and I found this sign…

THIS sign for an optician at #364 7th Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets in Park Slope is a true throwback. Not because of its age; it’s pretty old —…

LIKE the hands on a clock, or the sun and moon in the sky, New York is under constant movement not always apparent to the naked eye. In the nearly…

I made my first pilgrimage to Coney Island in a few years recently. Believe it or not I hadn’t had a hotdog since early 2022. Though I don’t intend to…

It’s not often that I write about something in Forgotten New York that completely stumps me, but I’ll show what I’ve found here in case some Crowns Heightsers can fill…

GRACE Court Alley proceeds east to a dead end from the east side of Hicks Street south of Remsen. It is not exactly on the same line as Grace Court…

BROWNSVILLE and East New York are neighborhoods of eastern Brooklyn delineated in great part by the Bay Ridge branch of the Long Island Rail Road. In the north, Brownsville runs…

HERE’S 101-103 Union Street between Columbia and Van Brunt, at the west end of a very long street that goes all the way to Brownsville. The building currently serves as…

WHEN in Bay Ridge in spring 2024 I was inching my way down 3rd Avenue when I spotted this venerable sign for the Metropolitan Society of Kardamylians at #7919. According…

HERE’S the Fei Long Market on 8th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Street. If you’re of a certain age you recall 8th Avenue and 64th Street for the 2001 Odyssey…

BARREN Island, at one point, was an actual island at the south end of today’s Marine Park, but was landfilled to create what is now the Floyd Bennett airfield. In…

TAKE a look at the detailing on this lamp bracket found at Avenue L and East 99th Street in Canarsie. It once held a lightbulb surrounded by a conical orange…