Williamsburg

PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year,…

Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known…

On one of Wythe Avenue’s older remaining buildings at South 5th Street, now home to Brazilian restaurant Miss Favela and across the street from the Williamsburg Bridge approach ramps, are…

Believe me, this page has been a long time coming. It’s not that it’s been heavily researched and photographed; no more so than most FNY pages. These photos were taken…

Of the many bridges that cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek, which includes the Pulaski (McGuiness Boulevard), J.J. Byrne (Greenpoint Avenue) Kosciuszko (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway), the Metropolitan Avenue bridge, and…

As I’ve said previously in these pages, you can find all sorts of stuff under elevated trains. Here on an el pillar at Broadway and Rutledge Street, there’s a mid-century…

I was desultorily trudging through Williamsburg on January 1, 2014 when I was reminded of the power of trolley tracks to preserve ancient streets. Johnson Avenue is a relatively busy…

Havemeyer Park was recently [2012] hewn out of what was formerly an empty lot and before that, a series of warehouses connected by a waterside railroad along Kent Avenue between…

Amazingly this faded sign on Hewes Street between Broadway and South 5th Streets is pretty much unchanged since I first surveyed it in 1999. Apparently it’s a palimpsest, or one…

While traversing the wilds of Williamsburg on New Year’s Day, 2014, I stumbled on a forlorn, windswept concrete traffic triangle that is likely little frequented by even area denizens. The…

I got this photo at the Dawn of Forgotten NY in the winer of 1998 at Bedford Avenue and North 4th, when Williamsburg was still an industrial/ethnic Eastern European stronghold,…

Here’s one I miss: the Old Dutch Mustard factory on Metropolitan and Wythe Avenues in Williamsburg. It succumbed to “urban renewal” in 2006. When I first began collecting ForgottenIntelligence, wandering…