Williamsburg

In the mid-1970s, the Williamsburg Bridge landing area in Brooklyn, and several streets south of it, were given this distinct lamppost design, as well as several davit-style poles — at…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Whenever a boulevard or highway slashes through the street grid, triangular parcels that are too small to develop are assigned to the Parks Department,…

I was doing some midweek loitering on the Marcy Avenue platform in Williamsburg, watching the trains go by. I can do this because over the past five years the copy…

Various alarms and surveillance devices cover a pair of chiseled street signs on a very old brick building at Wythe Avenue and North 8th Street in the Willie. How do…

Here’s another photo from ForgottenTour #1, June 1st, 1999, on a walk down Brooklyn’s Broadway. I caught sight of this ancient sign for the Glenwood Hotel on Broadway near Rodney…

Revisiting some more photos from 1999: today I have a pair of pictures from ForgottenTour #1, on June 1st of that year. We met at Kent Avenue and Broadway and…

Continued from Part 4 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Continued from Part 3 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Continued from Part 2 For this trip, I transferred from the J train to the 7 train. The two lines do not have a transfer point at any station —…

Glad to be with you this week — for most of the day I began to compose the page it looked like I wouldn’t be able to do it, as…

It’s hard to imagine Meeker Avenue without the viaduct of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway running down its center, but the diagonal byway, which separates the street patterns of Greenpoint and East…

Many of the streets in Williamsburg and northern Bedford-Stuyvesant are named for signers of the Declaration of Independence. Not every signer is represented, but most are. Ben Franklin, George Clymer,…