BEEN a few years since I walked Vanderbilt Avenue, so I decided to do a section of it on a walk in August 2021 that took me from Fulton Street…
Prospect Heights
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ATLANTIC AVENUE is one of the lengthiest streets in New York City, divided about equally between Brooklyn and Queens. It runs from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights all the way…
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PROFESSIONAL football had its AFL from 1961-1970, when the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl when they weren’t even part of the senior-circuit National Football League. But Brooklyn…
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I was surprised to see that Berg’n, the Prospect Heights food hall run by my former “boss” at Brownstoner Queens Jon Butler, was a Covid casualty. I would stop in…
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In August 2017 I evaded the dead horse heat of the dog days for a half hour in Berg’n, a food mall converted from a manufacturing warehouse on Bergen Street…
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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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While staggering around Prospect Heights in the 80-degree dead dog heat in August 2017, I chanced upon a bar called Tooker Alley at the patriotic intersection of Washington Avenue and…
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Brooklyn Jewish Hospital, later called Interfaith Medical Center after a 1983 merger, occupied a huge swath in Prospect Heights in buildings facing Classon Avenue, St. Mark’s Avenue and Prospect Place.…
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Today, January 28, 2018, is the 32nd anniversary of the failure of the NASA shuttle Challenger, which catastrophically broke apart shortly after takeoff on 1/28/1986. “NASA managers had known since 1977…
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The general concept of the parkway system, devised by master urban architect Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1860s, was to extend large parks by making the roads that connected…
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I took a couple of walks through Prospect Heights in mid-2017 and will expand on them in upcoming FNY pages, but I am always drawn like flies on sherbet to…
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by GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent It seems like “mom and pop” businesses are closing at a rapid pace in NYC. Small bakeries, pizzerias, hardware stores, donut shops have…