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…
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I’m perhaps late with this one, but word recently trickled back to me that a Forgotten New York favorite, the Avenue H stationhouse, had had a makeover, after it survived a…
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I should really do more on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. It runs continuously from Flatbush Avenue at Prospect Park all the way south to Sheepshead Bay, standing in for East…
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Shot from the Kings Highway platform in Midwood, an F train “passes under” the King of All Buildings. The Williamsburg Bank Tower, now One Hanson Place, is seen at right.
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This new Corvington longarm lamp at Avenue R and Kings Highway in Brooklyn was installed missing some scrollwork.
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I head for Coney Island at least once per winter. I like to roam around in the cold wind and hear it whistling in that Astroland tower, the one that…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING: CONEY ISLAND TO MIDWOOD At East 14th Street, the BMT Brighton Line bridges over the Belt Parkway and in an unusual arrangement, a pedestrian walkway…