Brooklyn

Davit lampposts, which are a single curved mast instead of a shaft with a mast attached, are becoming the new black in New York City lampposts. A flock were installed…

It’s hard to find “Whitestone” type lampposts anywhere in NYC these days, though in the 1940s and 1950s, they were the lampposts of choice on the then-fledgling NYC expressway system.…

Tour #60 was FNY’s 4th trip into Green-Wood Cemetery, concentrating this time on the cemetery’s central and southwest sections. As with all the tours thus far in 2012, the weather…

Periodically, I make a hajj over to 539 Driggs Avenue, not far from the buzzing hive of downtown Williamsburg. I just want to see if what I have termed the…

I have been complaining about new street signs in the Cleartype font, many of them in upper and lower case, that have been appearing on NYC streets in compliance with…

BY GARY FONVILLE FNY Correspondent With the IND approaching 80 years old, I thought I would give their decidedly different substations (from the BMT or IRT) some attention.  Since the…

BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I used to live near this location where Coney Island Avenue meets Parkside Avenue in Kensington, Brooklyn at Park Circle. Even though I used…

I’m taking it easy this weekend after a somewhat exhausting period of webhost migration hell (my bandwidth increased enough to necessitate moving to a more expensive plan) and with liquidweb,…

Dean Street and Nostrand Avenue, Crown Heights

Though the East Willie and north Bushwick have started to attract the cognoscenti, a good old fashioned ghetto ambience still holds sway in the subway stations, like this barred subway…

This arrow-shaped sign lurking under the Broadway Brooklyn el on Broadway and Aberdeen Street is a remaining specimen of the previous generation of one-way signs. They were in use prior…

Sunday, September 9th, 2012 turned out what you might expect, weather-wise, from that date: sunny and 78 degrees. So far in 2012 not a drop of rain has fallen on…