Continued from Part One EMPLOYING a backlog of photos from the spring of 2019, when I got on the #2 train and took it all the way down to the…
Midwood
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OLEAN Street, in the heart of Brooklyn in Midwood, runs for two diagonal blocks between East 22nd and East 24th Streets between Avenues N and O. In a confusing situation…
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Once upon a time, telephone customers were assigned alphanumeric telephone numbers. For example, the numbers were such as FOundation 8-3556 (now 368-2556), MOnument 2-2491 (now 662-2491) or NEvins 8-3886 (now 638-3886). The…
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Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…
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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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I was fresh from the “Parade of Trains,” an MTA event in which BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated cars from 1900-1910, BRT/BMT Standards and BMT Triplex Cars from the 1920s, and R1/R9…
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In late December 2001 I had a toothache and so found myself in the dentist chair in Bay Ridge on Christmas Eve for some emergency treatment. With mouth still numb,…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent If you live in NYC, you know that construction is ever present. If you don’t believe that concept, take a stroll around Downtown Brooklyn…
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On a recent jaunt in Midwood, Brooklyn I made sure to check on a pair of classic neon drugstore signs I’ve been aware of for quite some time. Unfortunately the…
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only President elected for four terms, served from 1933 to 1945, seeing the USA through the Great Depression and most of World War II. He…
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While Green-Wood and perhaps Evergreens get all the Brooklyn cemetery publicity, there’s another one smack in the center of the borough that’s fairly unnoticed, except if you are looking out…
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There was a time when banks were considered to be impenetrable fortresses where our hard-earned savings were kept, insured against robberies, eminently trustworthy and impregnable. Bank architecture reflected that belief…