One of the extraordinary buildings we saw on the recent Ditmas Park – Flatbush FNY tour was the original parish house for the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church on East 18th Street…
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The weather hopefully began a new winning streak for ForgottenTour #84, Saturday, September 27th, with sun and 80 degrees. ForgottenFans met at the recently restored historic stationhouse at the Brighton…
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The picture windows of the Cortelyou Road station window are placed directly over the tracks, which used to be part of asteam railroad conecting Prospect Park and Coney Island. Through…
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When I invade Flatbush, or the neighborhoods south and east of it, sometimes my thoughts turn to Brooklyn’s seemingly logical, but really very odd, street nomenclature system. While Manhattan’s grid and…
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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…