By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent FLATBUSH Avenue is not the longest road in Brooklyn (Bedford Avenue edges it out) but it comes close to the record on its lengthy route…
Riis Park
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Danish-born crusading journalist and photographer Jacob Riis (1849-1914) made his home in Richmond Hill, Queens, beginning in 1886. In 1887, Riis photographed the squalid, inhumane conditions prevalent in New York City’s…
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I recently walked/bicycled the length of the Rockaway Peninsula boardwalk. It cones in two separate sections: the boardwalk at Riis Park and beach, and the eastern section, formally called Ocean…