Here’s an item that’s been under my nose for decades and I never realized its presence. Charles Vanderveer, a scion of one of Brooklyn’s larger landholding families, constructed this home…
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On Sunday, April 21, 2013, nearly 35 ForgottenFans gathered for a tour in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and with sunny, 55 degree conditions, the recent weather winning streak…
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I am going to do a bit more on Corso Court when I do an upcoming (as of 4/30/13) page on Avenue U, but sufficient for today is this street…
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A sign pointing to Red Hook’s abandoned Fishport could still be found on Columbia Street near Halleck, at least in 2008. The sign pointed the way to an ambitious fish…
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Ex MTA bus driver Gary Fonville has kept a keen eye out for Forgotten items and has been a site contributor since 2000 — almost as long as FNY has…
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This awning sign on 86th Street near 5th Avenue is actually now one of the more venerable signs on the street, dating to 1981 or so. There was originally a…
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On a standpipe on 77th Street near 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge. I’m going to have to start looking for barber poles around town, but many of the “good,” standalone…
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After a bracing walk in the “new” Coney Island boardwalk area in March 2013, my fears that the Brooklyn Riviera would be starbucked, mcdonaldsed and condo’d into a comatose state…
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Brooklyn Heights is known for its attached brownstones and apartment buildings, but here and there are some freestanding buildings, as well as frame and wood houses, leftovers from the very…
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There was this grand old faded ad for a shoe shine place at the subway entrance/exit at 95th Street and 4th Avenue seen here. It could have gone all the…
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PART 1: BROOKLYN and the BRONX PART 2: QUEENS PART 3: MANHATTAN PART 4: STATEN ISLAND I’m surprised I never thought of this until now, after about fifteen…
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On a google street view link from elsewhere I spotted an old sign for Manny’s Men’s Shop, at the Kings Highway BMT station on West 7th. I can’t make out…