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…
East New York
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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.…
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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,…
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East New York, a neighborhood in Brooklyn south of Highland Park and the cemetery belt, has been largely rebuilt since it was allowed to fall into decrepitude in the 1950s…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent Among the city streets that follow elevated subway lines today, none are completely in the shade. McDonald Avenue, New Utrecht Avenue, and Roosevelt…
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This no-nonsense, Machine Age sign appears at the employee entrance of the underground NYC Pitkin Avenue Yards at Sutter and Grant Avenues in East New York. Why not Sutter Avenue…
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Continued from Part 1 I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed,…
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I’ve been on Fulton Street a lot. Over a decade ago I learned that the classic restaurant Gage & Tollner, at Fulton and Smith, had just closed, so I did…
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Forgotten NY correspondent Gary Fonville, a former NYC bus driver, points out an anomaly on this building at Atlantic Avenue and Wyona Street that has me stumped…. …if you…