I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in…
Marine Park
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JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek…
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I had the occasion to delve into the wilderness of southern Brooklyn recently, into Midwood and Marine Park, a realm I used to invade frequently on bike rides from Bay…
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I was stumbling around Marine Park on my way to a funeral parlor earlier this week when I noticed something definitely wonky about the house numbering. This is a neighborhood…
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An unusual item turned up while I was attending a wake on Tuesday (April 16th). I disdain wakes, and I’ll have to make sure I don’t get one. I understand…
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Continued from Part 1 In the 1970s, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach had not become fully homogenized into the Brooklyn “beautiful mosaic” and were still rough around the…
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There’s no Avenue Q in Brooklyn, and there’s no E or G, either; E became Foster Avenue and G became Glenwood Road long ago. The reasons for those switcheroos are…
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Why am I showing a nondescript corner in Marine Park, Quentin Road at East 35th Street? The corner seems newly remodeled, with a day care center occupying the ground floor.…
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I was heading to a birthday thing the other Saturday and found myself along Kings Highway, Brooklyn’s Mother Road, a colonial-era route built partially atop a Native American trail that once stretched…
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ALERT! The world scientific community will be forced to acknowledge the existence of a “living fossil” as a creature thought to be extinct for 80 million years recently appeared in a…
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Once one of New York City’s only two commercial airports (along with North Beach/LaGuardia Airport) Floyd Bennett Field now borders the southern stretch of Flatbush Avenue between Marine Park Golf…