QUESTION: When is a park not a park, but a street? Answer: When it’s Washington Park in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the street at the east end of Fort Greene Park.…
Fort Greene
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Continued from Part One WHEN I left off Part One of this feature, I had made my way in Hunters Point to the Gantry Park ferry landing and rode to…
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On July 5, 2024 I felt like getting in a boat, as July has been especially hot and humid this year even by recent standards. As I am chained to…
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SADLY, the last time I was able to get a photo of this enamel and metal sign on Auburn Place in Fort Greene was in 2016. It was paired with…
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EVERY so often I like to check in on my favorite buildings, one of which is the Renken Dairy offices at #584 Myrtle Avenue and Classon Avenue. The bottling plant…
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CONTINUING the same walk begun on Fulton Street, I then continued east on DeKalb Avenue, which begins at the erstwhile domed Dime Savings Bank at Albee Square and like a…
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If we’ve learned anything from the 2020 election cycle, it’s that Georgians do not pronounce the “L” in the state’s DeKalb County. Brooklynites, however, don’t like to let a perfectly…
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Some time ago I received a gift card for Greenlight Bookstore, an indie bookstore on Fulton Street in Fort Greene. I had forgotten about it for awhile even though it…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Over the years, throughout the NYC subway system, there have been many instances of the perceived or actual need to close subway entrances/exits. In…
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I was staggering around Fort Greene on a mild February Saturday. The rain had not arrived but it was coming up fast. In my estimation, I had about an hour…
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I had every intention of doing a ForgottenTour in Fort Greene in June 2016, but a bad back got in the way and I never rescheduled it. Perhaps in…
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The scene here is looking east on Myrtle Avenue at Prince Street in late 1970. As documented by Bill Mangahas of Newkirk Images, the Myrtle Avenue El has just been…