GLENMORE Avenue is a narrow, one-way route (running east to west) a block south of Liberty Avenue; it formerly was continuous to auto traffic, but in 1955 the Howard Houses,…
East New York
-
-
THE Van Siclens, who spelt their name in two ways as was common in the colonial era before spellings were codified, settled in western Long Island in the mid-17th Century…
-
I haven’t been out to East New York for awhile, but fortunately I have a number of photos on file, and I remembered the East New York Long Island Rail…
-
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…
-
In East New York for most of its length, Barbey Street, named for Andrew Barbey of the 19th Century Barbey and Sackman real estate developing firm (there is also a…
-
Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871, acquiring the patent from its inventor Dr. Samuel Pitcher. The medicine was heavily promoted on ads…
-
ForgottenFan Marc A. Hermann chipped in on Twitter with a couple of venerable ads revealed by a teardown of an electronics store at East New York and Rockaway Avenues in…
-
In 1999, I got this shot on an elevated train platform in East New York. I was on a “fantrip” with the redoubtable subway historian Joe Cunningham exploring the Canarsie…
-
The Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road runs from the Fresh Pond RR yards in Glendale generally southwest and west, ending at the waterfront of the Narrows in…
-
By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While driving through Cypress Hills and East New York I passed by what looked like an abandoned castle. In this section of the city,…
-
Though Dutch immigrants had established some homes and farms in Brownsville and East New York in the 1700s, the area did not gel as a community until the early-to-middle 1800s.…
-
The Duryea House in East New York is one of the Colonial-era Dutch houses that were lost before they could be landmarked. Several of these houses still stand in Brooklyn,…