MOST police precincts in NYC display two green lamps at the entrance. The tradition of green lights dates back to colonial times. According to the NYPD website, “It is believed…
Greenwood Heights
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MAN, I’m digging the old brick factory buildings in “South Brooklyn” that have since been repurposed. 132 32nd Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues is just such a building, a…
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PLAIN, unadorned brick buildings, as Bernie Taupin/Elton John would put it, say so much. They are gradually disappearing around town, with those that haven’t been adapted for residential use are…
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Today I have another mystery in Greenwood Heights, matching FNY’s earlier one regarding blue pavings stones from Spain. Like many mysteries, its secret is given up but grudgingly and I’ve…
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Surprisingly, there’s a lot for me to write about on 37th Street between 4th and 5th Avenue, a street on the borders of both Sunset Park and Greenwood Heights, that…
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Work continues — albeit at what seems to be a snail’s pace — at rehabilitating the landmarked Weir Greenhouse at 5th Avenue and 25th Street, opposite Green-Wood Cemetery’s main entrance;…
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I was wandering around in that nebulous area of Brooklyn between the waterfront and Green-Wood Cemetery, between about 24th and 36th Streets. This area had never been identified as part…
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Sunset Park’s boundaries are under dispute (like any other Brooklyn neighborhood) but to me it’s rather simple: Upper New York Bay waterfront, 39th Street, 9th Avenue, the Bay Ridge Branch…
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Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace and Kensington, has proven to be a Forgotten favorite — this was the 3rd such Green-Wood…
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CONTINUED FROM GREEN-WOOD HEIGHTS PART 1 5th Avenue The stretch of Fifth Avenue along Green-Wood cemetery is by far its quietest, sandwiched between its incredibly bustling areas on either end: Park…
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I confess. “Green-Wood Heights” is a name concocted by real-estaters stumped about what to call the area on the NW side of Green-Wood Cemetery between Park Slope and Sunset Park. Some…