“There are places I remember…” As I have said before in these pages, New York City is virtually alone among East Coast cities in being “alley-poor.” Stalking the older sections of…
Park Slope
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After a walk in NYC’s underbelly down Hell’s Kitchen’s 8th Avenue, a trip down Brooklyn’s 8th Avenue in Park Slope shapes up to be rather a change of pace. As…
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Your webmaster was strolling in Park Slope one day, in not quite the month of May, when I happened upon one of the remaining non-“gentrified” storefronts at 5th Avenue between Baltic…
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Your webmaster and Park Slope have an ambiguous history. In the 1980s and on into the 1990s, several friends and a cousin lived within a few blocks radius, and I…
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It all goes back to those bus rides I used to take with my mother, father or grandmother on the B63 bus in Brooklyn that runs, then as now, all the…
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The dominoes fall. Fourth Avenue has stubbornly resisted the mocha latte and stroller crowd as avenue after avenue in Park Slope, the venerable neighborhood punctuated by meticulously maintained row houses…
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WHEN I REVISIT Brooklyn’s 5th Avenue, I am going back to a stretch I have traversed thousands of times. Each day between September 1971 and the fall of 1980 (the latter…
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AS WE celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City subway in 2004, just think about what 100 years has meant for the sheer variety of architectural styles that…