I have not spent much time in East Flatbush lately or even over the years; in fact I used to bicycle through more frequently when I lived in Brooklyn. Once…
East Flatbush
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DURING the past week for my weekly item in SpliceToday I wrote about Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field remnants in Brooklyn. The Dodgers won their 8th World Series and became…
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THERE are no less than 20 place names in Brooklyn named “Paerdegat.” There’s Paerdegat Park, shown here; Paerdegat Basin, which separates the communities of Bergen Beach/Georgetown and Canarsie; Paerdegat Avenue…
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“Amersfort” is a fairly well-used Brooklyn name. Like Utrecht, it is Dutch in origin. It’s also used for Amersfort Park, a full city block in East Flatbush defined by Avenues…
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There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…
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From beginning to end, from Brooklyn through Queens and into Nassau County, Linden Boulevard is one of NYC’s lengthiest thoroughfares, running a total of 12.3 miles. However it’s also unique…
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Continued from Part 1 I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some…
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I am planning a feature on a walk I undertook from Parkville to Brownsville, Brooklyn soon enough, but here is a curiosity I couldn’t keep to myself for too long:…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 When I left off… I had just arrived at the former Kenmore Theater and Beverly Hills Bridal at East 21st Street, a mere block west of…
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Brooklyn’s Church Avenue runs from 37th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues on the Borough Park-Kensington border east and northeast to East 98th Street near Brookdale Hospital in Brownsville. The…
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Extra-large Department of Transportation street signs appear at intervals along fast and furious Kings Highway in East Flatbush. I can’t really say, but I imagine the DOT devised this method…
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I haven’t been down this stretch of Church Avenue in East Flatbush since I was a kid, when my parents and I would take the B35 bus almost all the…