Brooklyn

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…

NOT a whole lot of “faded ads” I found in the early days of Forgotten NY survive, but a pair on Jamaica Avenue between Marginal Street East and Vermont Avenue…

RED HOOK is usually fairly decent at preserving its relics (despite the lack of action by the Landmarks Preservation Commission), with the exception of the dry docks since replaced by…

DURING the past week for my weekly item in SpliceToday I wrote about Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field remnants in Brooklyn. The Dodgers won their 8th World Series and became…

THREE blocks of New Utrecht Avenue are uncovered by an elevated train. When riding the buses all over southern Brooklyn as a kid, I was on the B35 one day…

PRIOR to my visit to the NY Sign Museum, I found a good one at the beginning of a walk that took me into Borough Park, Windsor Terrace and Park…

FOR years, one of my ambitions has been to visit Cincinnati. Not for the strange chili or to take in a Reds or Bengals game. It was to visit Todd…

In December 2023 I entered Brooklyn for the first time in what I estimate was three years, a borough I lived in for 35 years; Covid-19 and then a succession…