Brooklyn

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…

I’ve been doing a very gradual survey of Bedford Avenue over the years in FNY, and have already completed two installments of the series, from Sheepshead Bay all the way…

Painted ads on the sides of buildings are almost a lost art, though the remnants of such signs can still be seen, in some cases, over 100 years after they…

One of the few reminders of the old Schaefer Brewery on Kent Avenue and South 8th Street in the Willieburg is this sculpture of a raised glass and hops plants…

Saturday, August 17th was yet another bright and sunny day for a ForgottenTour (as most have been in 2012 and 2013) and over 40 ForgottenFans turned up for a walk…

Brooklyn Heights Cinemas is probably one of the more unassuming movie theater buildings you will ever see, occupying a landmarked brick building constructed in 1890 at #70 Henry Street in…

I got this photo of a 1934 1935 LaSalle convertible in Brooklyn Bridge Park a few years ago. The park, stretching along the East River from Old Fulton Street to Atlantic…

I have been featuring Bay Ridge quite a bit this year — a ForgottenTour visited on 8/17/13 — and since my dentist is still there, I find myself going back…

Here’s a close up look of the remaining wood block sidewalk on West Street near Oak Street in Greenpoint. It’s likely the only remaining place in the city where you…