Continued from Part One WHEN I left off Part One of this feature, I had made my way in Hunters Point to the Gantry Park ferry landing and rode to…
Clinton Hill
-
-
On July 5, 2024 I felt like getting in a boat, as July has been especially hot and humid this year even by recent standards. As I am chained to…
-
It’s hard to nail down my favorite building in Clinton Hill but there’s a good chance that it’s the Joseph Steele House, #200 Lafayette Avenue at Vanderbilt, one of the…
-
THERE aren’t that many “original” Type F lampposts remaining in New York City. In fact, off the top of my head, I can rattle off the locations where you can…
-
I had known about this building on Park and Franklin Avenues in Clinton Hill marked with the name “Stimpson” for some time. A recent walk by there again led me…
-
CONTINUING the same walk begun on Fulton Street, I then continued east on DeKalb Avenue, which begins at the erstwhile domed Dime Savings Bank at Albee Square and like a…
-
Just barely readable on this peak-roofed brick building on Steuben Street, across from Steuben Park at the BQE, are the words “Wm.B.A. Jurgens” and above it “Brooklyn 1898” which is…
-
One one of the very rare sunny days in November 2018, I walked from Grand Army Plaza at Prospect Park into Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Williamsburg, getting over…
-
The owner of 269 Clinton Avenue, near DeKalb Avenue in Brooklyn’s historic Clinton Hill, has for several years displayed a hybrid Type E-Type F lamppost on the walkway. Formerly, Type…
-
In 1975, I hit an inside the park grand slam in a wiffleball game in this place. I hit drive to center and the kid who was out there needed…
-
By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Pennsylvania Station, which exists only in the memories of older folks and in photographs was a catalyst for the formation of the LPC (Landmarks…
-
Continued from Part 1 FNY has been spending a lot of time in Brooklyn of late, at least for the weekly longform posts, and I’ll continue in that vein this…