RECENTLY, Forgotten New York took a look at three separate street in downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO named Fleet, for an early landowner, Samuel Fleet. I’m not done with lost streets…
Williamsburg
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KEEP looking down…you may see a piece of New York City forgotten history. A few years ago I was ambling east on East 95th Street near Hunter College High School…
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THE tug Stephen B assists the barge John Blanche in the East River on a recent weekend afternoon. Behind it is the “gentrified” Domino Sugar refinery on the waterfront, which…
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AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…
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YOU can learn a lot from coat hangers…wood ones, at least. Newtown Historical Society president, Queen of Queens, Forgotten NY contributor and editor of Juniper Park Civic Association’s Juniper Berry…
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YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…
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I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…
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WHILE most people in Williamsburg’s Italian section know about the Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola Feast in which thousands of revelers pack the streets every mid-July…
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ACCORDING to a Facebook post by the Tuffet Wine Bar on Graham Avenue north of Grand in Williamsburg, realtor Jacob M. Aufrecht walked the planet from 12/12/1903-2/7/1961. (Thus, I’ve now…
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I got this photo at the dawn of Forgotten NY in the winter of 1998 at Bedford Avenue and North 4th, when Williamsburg was still an industrial/ethnic Eastern European stronghold,…
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LAST June, I wrote about the monumental former American Beverage Company Building, #118 North 11th just west of Berry Street. I was under the impression that was its original purpose.…
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TODAY’S “ancient ad” is a bit less ancient that usual on FNY, but it is at least a good 40 years old if not 50. I had gotten off the…