I have always held a fascination for Myrtle Avenue that goes all the way back to 1965. That’s the year my mother and I set off on foot for several…
Ridgewood
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THE twin towers of St. Aloysius (pronounced “alla WISH us”) Roman Catholic Church at Stockholm Street and Onderdonk Avenue can be seen for miles in Ridgewood and nearby Maspeth. It…
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WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…
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A panel sidewalk sign for the Paramount Fish Market was revealed in late 2022 at #300 Knickerbocker Avenue between Suydam and Hart Streets when an awning sign for a thrift…
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Continued from Across the Creek: July 4th in Greenpoint I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was…
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DEMOCRAT Grover Cleveland (who moved to New York State from New Jersey as a young man and served as mayor of Buffalo and NYS governor) holds the distinction of being the only…
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THERE are a couple of artifacts in Maspeth that may seem like a head-scratcher, as there are a couple of pieces of infrastructure that reference a neighborhood a couple of…
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“I know what I am, I’m glad I’m a man, and so’s Lola,” Ray Davies of the Kinks once sang. It’s good to know what you are. I’m not a…
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REALLY, I could have sworn I hadn’t been back in the Bushwick and Ridgewood area for a couple of years, but the internet doesn’t lie (well, some of it does),…
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I was recently wandering around in Ridgewood for the first time in several months with the intent of getting new photos of its obscurities, which are numerous: I’ll enumerate them…
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German immigrant Henry C. Bohack opened his first grocery in 1887 and over the years Bohack developed into one of the first powerhouse grocery store chains. Grand Union, Key Food…
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Rudy’s Bakery & Café, 905 Seneca Ave. between Myrtle and Catalpa Avenues, has been in business for just over 80 years. The German word Konditorei can be translated as “cakes or baked…