Bushwick

Today, Manhattan (Financial District) and Staten Island (St. George) have Wall Streets, but Brooklyn no longer does. A street sign at Broadway and Arion Place, a couple of blocks north…

The “City of Churches” has lost more of its more distinctive steeples as the former St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, dedicated in 1892, is…

Circo’s Bakery, at 312 Knickerbocker Avenue at Hart Street, has been a Bushwick fixture since 1945, according to the store’s website. Original founder Circo sold the shop to two longtime…

Continued from Part 2 I hope you’re not getting tired of Brooklyn and Queens, as this turned out into an epic walk between Queens and Brooklyn — I shot over…

Found recently on Bushwick Avenue. Photo: Gary Fonville 6/8/15

Woodside is often the jump-off point for some of my lengthier walks. The reason is simple. It’s the westernmost Long Island Rail Road stop in Queens (on my branch, that…

Here’s one of the stranger stories concerning one of the major NYC cemeteries, Evergreens Cemetery, which is about evenly divided between Brooklyn and Queens, the westernmost burial city in the…

A remaining street sign for Hamburg Avenue remains chiseled into a building at Harman Street in Bushwick, close to the Myrtle Avenue el. Bushwick in northeast Brooklyn used to be…

Here’s a huge bronze trumpeting angel in Bushwick’s Evergreens Cemetery at the memorial of Bernhard Hammer (1836-1905) and other family members. The Latin inscription on the crest, Malleum incude malim,…

I had never known where the entrance was for the Bushwick Avenue-Aberdeen Street station on the Canarsie Line, popularly known as the L train. I was always looking around for…

Meandering mindlessly in Bushwick a couple of years ago, I walked down the dead-end section of Central Avenue under the Long Island Rail Road elevated tracks. Here can be found…

Making it 10 out of 11 tours in 2014 with sunny weather (albeit postponed from November 1 because of rain) November 8th’s Evergreens Cemetery was conducted in sunny, 50-degree weather.…