9th STREET, PARK SLOPE
Forgotten New York - I return to Park Slope eagerly and often. When I resided in Bay Ridge (1957-1993), I would often hike in Prospect Park from the Park Slope end east to the Lefferts Gardens end on...
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Forgotten New York - After my Park Slope, Brooklyn 9th Street exploration in August 2012 I turned north on 7th Avenue and discovered why one of Brooklyn’ old nicknames was the City of Churches, later...
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Forgotten New York - 457 12th Street, just off 8th Avenue in Park Slope, is an Italianate-style wood frame house constructed before 1869. When Park Slope began to be populated in the years just before...
View ArticleDOWNTOWN to PROSPECT, Brooklyn, Part 1
Forgotten New York - Though I have been writing Forgotten New York for a long time — I started in 1998 — there are still adventures I haven’t yet considered, such as a simple walk down Flatbush Avenue...
View ArticleA LONE “WHITESTONE”, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - I’ve wanted to get a picture of this lamppost for a long time. It’s on 17th Street and 3rd Avenue in Park Slope under the overpasses at the junction of the Gowanus Expressway and...
View ArticleCARROLL GARDENS to PARKVILLE, Part 1
Forgotten New York - There’s about a 2-week window in the spring and another in the fall when New York City is tolerably walkable. Of course, I will walk in all weather except below 20 degrees or so,...
View ArticleCARROLL GARDENS TO PARKVILLE, Part 2
Forgotten New York - So, where were we? In Part 1 I had gotten from the Bergen Street F line station by meandering down Smith and 3rd Streets, over the noxious and noisome Gowanus Canal, winding up at...
View ArticleBORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 1
Forgotten New York - In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me from roving all over...
View ArticleBORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 2
Forgotten New York - CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In this preternaturally mild summer [2014] only the exorbitantly high transit fares and my volunteer work at Greater Astoria Historical Society are keeping me...
View Article7th AVENUE, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - I’ve likely shown this one before, but it’s an amazing survivor on 7th Avenue and 1st Street in Park Slope. In 1964 the Department of Traffic, as it was then known, began...
View Article8th AVENUE, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - I was staggering around in the 96-degree blast furnace heat in the sunshine of Park Slope, scouting the route for an upcoming Forgotten NY tour, when after about three hours I...
View ArticleTHE LITCHFIELD, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - Near-insensate from this summer’s unrelenting heat, I sweated my way up 9th Street early in August 2015 to scout an upcoming tour when I spotted a gorgeous apartment house, one of...
View ArticleFORGOTTENTOUR #96: SOME OF PARK SLOPE
Forgotten New York - On ForgottenTour #96, August 9, 2015, we walked up 9th Street and then Prospect Park to 15th Street and took in some little-known aspects of the neighborhood… The Charles Higgins...
View ArticleRKO PROSPECT THEATER, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - Trained eyes can pick out former theater buildings pretty readily. This is the former RKO Prospect Theatre, which was home to vaudeville shows and then films from 1914 until 1967....
View ArticleWINDSOR PLACE, Park Slope & Windsor Terrace
Forgotten New York - I was on my way to a gathering in Caton Park recently when, noticing I had not been able to walk all that much during the week, decided to walk from the IND 7th Avenue station, a...
View ArticleCHARLES HIGGINS, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - A number of years ago, I believe it was in 1999, I interviewed for American Ink Maker Magazine. The business, part of the Cygnus magazine organization, was located in a corporate...
View ArticleMACOMB STREET, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - Macomb Street, running between 4th Avenue and Prospect Park West, was probably named for Alexander Macomb Sr. (1748-1831), a prosperous Revolution-era merchant born in Belfast,...
View ArticleHOUSE THAT GUM BUILT, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - General Antonio de Santa Anna (1794-1876) led the Mexican Army that defeated a ragtag assembly of about 200 American defenders at the Alamo in what would be San Antonio, Texas in...
View ArticleDOWNTOWN to PROSPECT HEIGHTS, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had lifted...
View ArticleHUTWELKER BUILDING, Park Slope
Forgotten New York - The hulking Hutwelker Building (I couldn’t resist) stands at the SE corner of 5th Avenue and 19th Street in south Park Slope, 5 blocks away from Green-Wood Cemetery. A beautiful...
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