The hulking Hutwelker Building (I couldn’t resist) stands at the SE corner of 5th Avenue and 19th Street in south Park Slope, 5 blocks away from Green-Wood Cemetery. A beautiful…
Park Slope
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Continued from Part 1 Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had…
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General Antonio de Santa Anna (1794-1876) led the Mexican Army that defeated a ragtag assembly of about 200 American defenders at the Alamo in what would be San Antonio, Texas…
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Macomb Street, running between 4th Avenue and Prospect Park West, was probably named for Alexander Macomb Sr. (1748-1831), a prosperous Revolution-era merchant born in Belfast, Ireland. Though he initially had Tory sympathies he…
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A number of years ago, I believe it was in 1999, I interviewed for American Ink Maker Magazine. The business, part of the Cygnus magazine organization, was located in a corporate park…
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I was on my way to a gathering in Caton Park recently when, noticing I had not been able to walk all that much during the week, decided to walk…
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Trained eyes can pick out former theater buildings pretty readily. This is the former RKO Prospect Theatre, which was home to vaudeville shows and then films from 1914 until 1967. It…
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On ForgottenTour #96, August 9, 2015, we walked up 9th Street and then Prospect Park to 15th Street and took in some little-known aspects of the neighborhood… The Charles…
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Near-insensate from this summer’s unrelenting heat, I sweated my way up 9th Street early in August 2015 to scout an upcoming tour when I spotted a gorgeous apartment house, one…
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I was staggering around in the 96-degree blast furnace heat in the sunshine of Park Slope, scouting the route for an upcoming Forgotten NY tour, when after about three hours…
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I’ve likely shown this one before, but it’s an amazing survivor on 7th Avenue and 1st Street in Park Slope. In 1964 the Department of Traffic, as it was then…
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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…