Forgotten New York
  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY

Forgotten New York

  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY
Social Links

Crown Heights

  • Alleys

    MYSTERIOUS ALLEYS, CROWN HEIGHTS

    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2024
    by Kevin Walsh December 15, 2024 7 comments

    It’s not often that I write about something in Forgotten New York that completely stumps me, but I’ll show what I’ve found here in case some Crowns Heightsers can fill…

    Read more
  • Signs

    SIGNS OF UTICA

    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2023
    by Kevin Walsh August 27, 2023 18 comments

    FOR today’s entry I was inspired by a series of photos cartoonist Danny Hellman recently shot on a stretch of Utica Avenue, one of Brooklyn’s lengthy north-south “NY Cities” series…

    Read more
  • Street Scenes

    SUPERBLOCKS, Crown Heights North

    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2022
    by Kevin Walsh May 8, 2022 2 comments

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE flaw of urban planning in Brooklyn is the beauty of Prospect Park as the borough’s signature greenspace, and seemingly endless blocks of housing…

    Read more
  • One ShotsSigns

    WYCKOFF STREET, Crown Heights(?)

    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2021
    by Kevin Walsh November 23, 2021 6 comments

    YOU can observe a lot just by looking, as Yogi Berra used to say. For example, here’s a handsome brick building on Washington and st. Mark’s Avenues at the edge…

    Read more
  • Forgotten Slices

    LINCOLN TERRACE PARK, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh October 8, 2020 1 comment

    By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On its route between Grand Army Plaza and Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway is a designated city scenic landmark, the first Olmstedian parkway. While its…

    Read more
  • AlleysOne ShotsRoads

    CLOVE ROAD, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh August 13, 2020 3 comments

    There’s on odd little alley running between Empire Boulevard and Montgomery Street just east of Nostrand Avenue called Clove Road. Its only intersection is with a short piece of Malbone…

    Read more
  • AdsOne Shots

    CARDINAL REALTY, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020
    by Kevin Walsh April 16, 2020 5 comments

    Doing some late night noodling in Google Street View, I happened upon this ad, painted directly onto the building bricks on St. Johns Place just east of Troy Avenue for…

    Read more
  • One Shots

    SNEAKERS AND BEEPERS

    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh May 4, 2016 4 comments

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent There have been many signs chronicled in FNY over the years. Many can still be read, despite their vintage Some have even faded to…

    Read more
  • One ShotsSubways & Trains

    CARROLL STREET BRIDGE, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh March 24, 2016 2 comments

    I know… you were probably expecting me to cover the famed Carroll Street Bridge over Gowanus Canal, built in 1889. I’ve featured that bridge (one of 4 remaining retractile bridges…

    Read more
  • Forgotten Slices

    FORD STREET, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2016
    by Kevin Walsh February 5, 2016 8 comments

    There are two Ford Streets in Brooklyn– just as there are two West Streets (Gravesend, Greenpoint) two West 9th Streets (Gravesend, Red Hook) and even two Atlantic Avenues (Boerum Heights…

    Read more
  • One ShotsSigns

    NO UMBRELLAS, NO CANES, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh August 20, 2015 1 comment

    By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent At the President Street station, on the IRT Nostrand Avenue line, this may be the oldest remaining sign of any kind in that…

    Read more
  • One Shots

    TERRA COTTA PALACE, Crown Heights

    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2015
    by Kevin Walsh July 30, 2015 4 comments

    Gary Fonville sent me a magnificent building clad in shiny terra cotta on Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Place, claiming it to be yet another lost Child’s restaurant as featured in…

    Read more
Load More Posts

Explore by Category

Search by Category

FORGOTTEN ARTICLES

The Bronx North Woods [SpliceToday]

It’s Really Maspeth [SpliceToday]

Between the Bridges [SpliceToday]

X Marks the Street [SpliceToday]

Hanging Out in Bulls Head [SpliceToday]

 

FNY ON THE RADIO AND MEDIA

Karol Markowicz, 2024

Frank Morano, WABC, 2022

Mike and Judy Show, 2011

Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, 2006

Support Forgotten NY

Thank you to all our donors that continue to support Forgotten NY. To make a donation, please use the button below.

 

FNY the Book

Archives

Award-Winning!

Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City!
Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society

Links

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A
Little Neck, NY 11363

@2019 - Forgotten New York. All Right Reserved.


Back To Top
Forgotten New York
  • Home
  • About
    • Advertise with FNY
    • Contributors
    • Contact Us
  • Book
  • Forgotten Tours/Tour Schedule
    • FNY 2025 Tour Schedule
  • Gift Shop
  • JOBS
  • COMMUNITY

40-01 Little Neck Parkway 24A
Little Neck, NY 11363

@2019 - Forgotten New York. All Right Reserved.