Brooklyn has its share of patriotic-sounding street names, such as State Street downtown, as well as Union and President in Cobble Hill, Park Slope and Crown Heights, but there actually…
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This Spanish Mission style house faces Shore Road near 92nd Street in Bay Ridge. Shore Road, which twists and turns along the ridges overlooking the Narrows, was developed early on…
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457 12th Street, just off 8th Avenue in Park Slope, is an Italianate-style wood frame house constructed before 1869. When Park Slope began to be populated in the years just…
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My father was the custodian for this building on the corner of 5th Avenue and 85th Street in Bay Ridge as a side job for many years. For almost as…
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Freestanding woodframe houses are the “Easter eggs” of Brownstone Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, etc.) and they do stand out amidst the attached housing of…
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Shown in the title card is the intersection of Ocean and Parkside Avenues, where one of four subway stations facing Prospect Park can be found. This one serves the Q…
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In most parts of the country, this pleasant two-story house at the corner of Voorhies Avenue and East 22nd Street, with a wraparound porch, gables, pitched roof and dormer windows,…
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On a telephone pole, hidden behind another pole, on the corner of Sheepshead Bay Road and Voorhies Avenue. Probably first attached there in the 1950s or 1960s — still has…
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I should really do more on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. It runs continuously from Flatbush Avenue at Prospect Park all the way south to Sheepshead Bay, standing in for East…
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The station on the Brighton Line (Q train) on Gravesend Neck Road has been named simply Neck Road since its inception nearly 100 years ago. It’s one of the only…
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Even though I grew up mere blocks away from Dyker Beach Golf Course in Dyker Heights, I have never swung a golf club in my life. Who can afford golf…
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In late March I learned that the Nathan’s hotdog stand on the Coney Island boardwalk had opened for the season, so I decided to head to Brooklyn’s Riviera by the…