Flatbush

Central Flatbush, clustered around Flatbush and Church Avenues, boasts a number of historic buildings in a relatively small area, similar to other originally Dutch Colonial NYC towns like Flushing and…

Writing this on July 27, 2020 on yet another 93-degree day, I looked back in the archives to December 2015 (which was a good 13 degrees above normal, but at…

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…

by GARY FONVILLEForgotten NY correspondent This may be the first of a kind for FNY.  Kevin Walsh and I have taken an untold number of pictures of signs that represented businesses that no…

Though southern Brooklyn’s streets are dominated by numbered and lettered streets, over the past two centuries, things have shaken out to be rather interesting, nomenclature-wise. As always, the exceptions prove…

At Beverly and Bedford Avenues in Flatbush is this huge Art Moderne monolith that looks like something straight out of the 1936 movie Things to Come (the third section, where…

Like much of the subways the BMT Brighton Line, which runs generally between East 15th and 16th Streets from Prospect Park south to Coney Island, has a complicated history. It…

I don’t know about you, but when I see the term “Private Street,” I think of Riverdale, the Bronx.  I always thought that Riverdale has the most private streets, but…

Before 1894, Flatbush in Kings County was a separate town on its own, with a separate government, police department, street layout, etc. The town was annexed by the City of…

Some NYC subway stations have small buildings used as entrances, especially where the subway lines run in an “open cut” or a roofless tunnel. Of course on the original Interborough…

Southeast Brooklyn still has a number of colonial-era houses constructed by Dutch and English settlers from the mid-18th to early 19th Centuries. Among them are the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House…

Across the street from The Flatbush Reformed Church and cemetery, and two doors down from historic Erasmus Hall High School, another chapter in Brooklyn history has been temporarily revealed at…