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…
Williamsburg
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The old Wythe Diner, Wythe Avenue and North 3rd in the Willieburg, still outwardly showing every bit of its 1952 Mountain View Diner Company exterior, has been operated under many…
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Winston cigarettes were introduced by R.J. Reynolds in 1954 and at times, the brand has been the best-selling cigarette in the USA. Before 1971, when cigarette ads were banned on…
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I’ve been doing a very gradual survey of Bedford Avenue over the years in FNY, and have already completed two installments of the series, from Sheepshead Bay all the way…
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One of the few reminders of the old Schaefer Brewery on Kent Avenue and South 8th Street in the Willieburg is this sculpture of a raised glass and hops plants…
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From the collection of Bob Mulero, the King of NYC Lampposts, comes this view of a possibly one-of-a-kind lamp that used to stand at the Brooklyn-bound exit ramp of the…
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Tucked away at the west end of Grand Street where it meets the East River and punctuated by a tall smokestack you’ll find a small oasis that indirectly remembers the…
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Grand Street is a long road with two distinct sections. The western end of the street in Brooklyn runs east-west through the heart of Williamsburg all the way to the…
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Desert Island Comic Books, 540 Metropolitan Avenue near Union Avenue in Brooklyn, has participated in a recent trend (that I welcome): maintaining an older classic awning sign of a previous…
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Someone on Wythe Avenue in the north Willie paid tribute to Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828) with this rendering of his Portrait of Don Manuel Osorio de Manrique Zuniga. The original is…
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Long before Queens officials thought of doing it, the city of Williamsburgh laid out streets that were all numbered, with the odd rare named street here and there. North-south streets…
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Periodically, I make a hajj over to 539 Driggs Avenue, not far from the buzzing hive of downtown Williamsburg. I just want to see if what I have termed the…