Ditmars Street runs for one block between Broadway and Myrtle Avenue in Bushwick. It’s unremarkable in every way, except that there is an elevated train at both ends, so it’s…
Bushwick
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Though the hot sweltering Sunday, June 27, 2010 weather kept a number of tourgoers away (by apparent contract with the Almighty, ForgottenTours are never held in sunny, brisk, cool weather) 30…
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MYRTLE AVENUE Part 1: Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant
by Kevin WalshI hadn’t walked a considerable length of Myrtle Avenue in Brooklyn since 1965. That year I distinctly remember some aspects of a walk my mother and I took down Myrtle,…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 Today’s Myrtle Avenue walk extends from the leftover unused el section from Lewis Avenue east to the Madison Theatre, just past the point where the remaining…
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It’s fairly easy to walk Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn and Queens from one end to the other, and it can be done in about two hours, if, like your webmaster,…
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Your webmaster had the day to himself after making anappearance on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC Radio (to promote the new Forgottenbook) on a sparkling Monday in October, and had to…
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AS WEÂ celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway in 2004, just think about what 100 years has meant for the sheer variety of architectural styles that…
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TO FIND RARE BEASTS, you have to know what environment they thrive in. The same principle applies to locating species of ancient NYC streetlighting…they like to hang out in the…
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It’s 1950 and on Third Avenue, the el trains rumbling overhead, like the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs of the Cretaceous, are blissfully unmindful of their upcoming doom. The shrews, rats…