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…
Prospect Heights
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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…
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While President Ulysses S. Grant, an Ohioan by birth, is entombed on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and represented on Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza’s Soldiers and Sailors Arch, his perhaps most…
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This was one of my periodic walks where I pick out a street and wander as far as my preference goes, seeking out Forgotten material along the way. The group…
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I was wavering down Dean Street in December 2011 when I noticed its rock collection. For an unknown reason, at least to me, large boulders can be found on the…
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Samuel Underberg, a food supplies company, had offices in this building that stood on Atlantic Avenue between Flatbush and 5th Avenues for many decades, and the company made sure you…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING MAP: DOWNTOWN TO PROSPECT PARK I had arrived in Prospect Heights, one of Brooklyn’s bounceback neighborhoods which has gone from rags to riches, with most…
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Few Brooklyn neighborhoods have changed as much as has the part of Fort Greene/Prospect Heights just east of Times Plaza, where two of Brooklyn’s longest streets, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, get…