Clinton Hill

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…

Best known for “Leaves of Grass,” the revolutionary collection of twelve poems (expanded on in later editions) that first appeared in 1855, as well as “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” and “I Sing The…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I had great pleasure in doing two entries concerning trolley tracks that were breaking through many levels of asphalt that made them seemingly disappear from NYC’s streets.  …

A small traffic triangle is formed on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill by long-ago cvil engineers’ insistence on letting Washington Avenue go its own way. South of Atlantic…

Taaffe Place runs for a few blocks in Clinton Hill between Flushing and DeKalb Avenues, wedged between Classon and Kent. It’s pronounced “taf” as far as I know, and is…

BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember video stores, record shops, beeper outlets, shoe repair shops and ice cream/ fountain soda stands? These types of businesses once were ubiquitous in…

Freestanding woodframe houses are the “Easter eggs” of Brownstone Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Cobble Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, etc.) and they do stand out amidst the attached housing of…

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…

Continued from Part 1 MASONIC TEMPLE   I detoured a block west on Lafayette to Clermont so I could see the Brooklyn Masonic Temple, assembled in 1908 by not one but…

Welcome to the inaugural page in the latest FNY category, the second added in the past two years, following FNY Walks in 2010. In FNY Roads I’ll be concentrating on one one…

I don’t get into Clinton Hill often enough. I am intimidated by it — imagine a neighborhood, along with neighboring Fort Greene and to some degree, Bedford-Stuyvesant, which flank Clinton Hill…

Paleontologists tell us that the legions of birds twittering in the trees, paddling in streams and migrating worldwide in the air are directly descended from the dinosaur line and are all…