In New York City, the smallest possible number you can get when adding the numbers of both cross streets that have numbers is two, in the East Village, where First…
Gowanus
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THE Gil Hodges Community Garden is a green spot in gritty Gowanus, at Carroll Street and Denton Place. It was founded as early as 1982, but over 30 years later…
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YOU find the darnedest things on Facebook. I subscribe to several pages that display historic images, such as Brownstone Detectives. Last week, this photo was displayed showing what was the…
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JUST across 3rd Avenue from the ancient high pressure fire hydrant featured on February 2nd, 2022, I spotted this Dresser hydrant, which is actually the one on duty on this…
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I was lollygagging around the 3rd Avenue-Gowanus area in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving Day 2021 when I chanced upon one of the last Mohicans of firefighting, a high pressure fire hydrant,…
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THANKSGIVING is a time for…walking. I have done some epics in the past, like a few years ago when I walked from Sunset Park to Maspeth, a distance of approximately…
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Since we talk about Forgotten NY in terms of decades now, it’s been a good 14 years since I covered the Gowanus area of Brooklyn in any depth at all.…
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On a jaunt crossing the 3rd Street Bridge spanning the Gowanus Canal in 2014, I spotted the gigantic neon Kentile Floors billboard on 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues…
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In 1999, waiting for a train at the Smith-9th Street elevated IND station, I snapped a photo of the massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the…
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The intersection of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus on the edge of Park Slope is an unlikely architecture mecca. The former home of the Brooklyn Improvement Company, founded…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving…
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In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over town most…