Greenpoint, Brooklyn’s northernmost community, settles along the junction of the East River and Newtown Creek north of Williamsburg. It has a — for Brooklyn — unusual alphabetized street name system.…
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Brooklyn Bridge Park is an over $200 million extravaganza, an 85-acre park along the East River from Atlantic Avenue north and northweat along the East River to Jay Street in…
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Russian People’s Home of Greenpoint, 106 Clay Street off McGuinness Boulevard. This is either an old sign of great age, or may have been part of a movie set that…
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Greenpoint’s street names were once lettered, from A to Q, but in the late 19th Century were given actual names, in alphabetical order. In north Greenpoint, the names reflect the…
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Furman Street runs along the East River in Brooklyn from Atlantic Avenue north to (Old) Fulton, and since the 1950s, has mostly been accompanied by the stolid overhang of the…
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After my Park Slope, Brooklyn 9th Street exploration in August 2012 I turned north on 7th Avenue and discovered why one of Brooklyn’ old nicknames was the City of Churches,…
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I went to high school in Clinton Hill in the Super Seventies, but rarely ventured around the neighborhood — it was tougher than tough then. Today, 40 years later, it’s…
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Despite the protests of congregants, preservationists and neighbors, the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church, popularly known as the Green Church, was razed in 2008. From my Ovington Avenue page: The “Green Church”…
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I was in my old neighborhood, Bay Ridge, when I noticed some standout signs along 3rd and 5th Avenues. This one for a bike shop on 5th Avenue and 73rd…
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I was in my old neighborhood, Bay Ridge, and saw some interesting store sign ideas on the main shopping routes, 3rd and 5th Avenues. This one for a watering hole…
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I passed the mystery house of Bay Ridge, 457 Ovington, between 4th and 5th the other day, and it is as immutable as ever. The blinds are still lowered, the…
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There had indeed been a Lexington Avenue Line in Brooklyn — an el that shrouded the entire length of the Bedford-Stuyvesant avenue that runs from Grand Avenue east to Broadway. …