BORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 2

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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 from roving all over town most days of the week, pointing a camera at anything remotely of interest. However, I do try to get out whenever possible [...]

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WHERE AM I?

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This one ought to be a challenge. Street and neighborhood, please. 8/31/14

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REPLICAS of ASTORIA

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History can be found in the most mundane of settings. Take this 3-story walkup on the corner of Broadway and 37th Street, for example. It has been covered with aluminum siding for a number of decades. The lamppost on the corner is a modern-day copy of the longarmed “Corvingtons” that first appeared in the early [...]

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HAVEMEYER PARK, Williamsburg

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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 South 3rd and South 4th Streets. The park boasts views of both the old Domino sugar refinery and the Williamsburg Bridge. There’s a rough and [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #83: Little Neck and Douglaston, Queens

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Saturday, September 13, 12 noon Some say that landmark designation is bad for a community. Communities that are actually Landmarked know better. They know that designation is a very smart move for it increases property values. Here are some of Queens’ most outstanding vistas and some of its most beautiful and historic architecture in the [...]

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75 HUDSON, Tribeca

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75 Hudson Street, south of Franklin in Tribeca, was grand when first built in the mid to late 1800s, with its Corinthian columns on the first floor. But it looks like it’s hearkening back to Tribeca’s indifferent days of the 1960s when Tribeca was a gritty manufacturing and importing neighborhood, with residences that were hardly [...]

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BORO HALL TO BARCLAYS, Brooklyn – Part 1

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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 town most days of the week, pointing a camera at anything remotely of interest. However, I do try to get out whenever possible and on this day, [...]

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ANOTHER ROOSEVELT ISLAND RELIC

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Having seen Roosevelt Island’s preserved trolley kiosk in yesterday’s FNY entry, I can now move on to an equally engaging one right next to it at the tramway landing. What could it be? A large funerary urn from the classical age, perhaps? Actually it is the base of a unique lamppost, one of two ever [...]

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ROOSEVELT ISLAND’S TROLLEY KIOSK

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Even though Manhattan is an island, Roosevelt Island is an island in the borough of Manhattan. I was slouching around the southern end of the island this past week, as I’m fascinated with the NYC talismanic objects that somehow have accreted around the tramway landing area just north of the subway exit. This part of [...]

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OLD SIGNS IN NEW HYDE PARK

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Street signs in Long Island change by municipality, so you’ll see different styles depending on what village or town you’re in. I was bumbling around New Hyde Park, crazed from the bright sun, when I discovered this pair of blue enamel street signs mounted perpendicularly. This is likely the first version of these street signs [...]

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MY WORKPLACES

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As of early 2014 I’m looking around for work and have been “freelancing” for three years. Most of my career has consisted of working with print, editing, writing, proofreading, and mechanicals and layout. After thirty years in the business, and fifteen writing and researching Forgotten New York (which will likely continue until death or incapacitation) [...]

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HIGH ISLAND, Long Island Sound

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A clear view of High Island is seen from Orchard Beach. This is a small, uninhabited island northeast of City Island that is owned by CBS Radio; its most prominent features are a pair of radio transmission towers for CBS’ primary NYC properties, WCBS-AM 880 and SportsRadio 66 WFAN. Prior to 1961 it was home [...]

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FRIENDLY SERVICE, Grand Concourse

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This mostly obliterated painted sign can be seen traveling south on the Grand Concourse from Kingsbridge Road. It appears that there are a variety of signs here, painted on top of the other, all bleeding colors into a swirl of anonymity. 8/14/14

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FORGOTTENTOUR #82, Westchester Square to Parkchester

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On yet another perfect weather day ForgottenTour #82 assembled at “The Chair” sculpture in Westchester Square, the intersection of Westchester, East Tremont and Lane Avenues in the Bronx, on Saturday, August 9th at 10AM, an early start to beat the heat. We saw several attractions at the Square, including the Huntington Free Library, ably assisted [...]

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QUASAR TVs, Sunnyside

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A quasar, which stands for “quasi-stellar” is a super-bright area in the center of a galaxy being swallowed by a black hole, emitting tremendous amounts of radioelectric energy. Some quasars among the farthest objects in the universe visible by telescope. From 1967 until the mid-1980s, Quasar was the brand name for Motorola’s television products line, [...]

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REPURPOSED BANKS, Part 1

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MTA employee and former bus driver Gary Fonville has assisted FNY in finding odd stuff around town almost since FNY’s beginning in 1999. Here, he turns his attention to bank buildings now used for different purposes… BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent We as a society have been using banks for a long, long [...]

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EX-LAX, Crown Heights

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Stenciled signs for the “chocolated laxative” appeared frequently on drugstore windows frequently in the early to mid-20th Century, and several more can be found concealed under newer awnings, or in full view again when they’re removed, as on this sign on Franklin Avenue near St. John’s Place. Photo: Gary Fonville 8/9/14

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59 HICKS STREET, Brooklyn Heights

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59 Hicks Street, at the northeast corner of Cranberry Street, was the longtime home of the Heights Veterinary Hospital. It’s one of the oldest buildings in Brooklyn Heights, as it was constructed in 1822 by a cooper, or cabinetmaker, John Rogers. In the 1870s, this building served as the architectural office for the construction of [...]

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Congratulations 2014 HDAF Scholarship Recipients

2014 HDAF Scholarship Recipients for First, Second, Third, Fourth Year Dental Students and for First and Second Year Dental Auxiliary Students

Salvador Cardenas, UIC

Daniel Gonzalez, Tufts University

Anna I. Jobe, UMKC

Christina Puig, NSU

Oscar H. Reyna-Blanco, UCSF

Gloria E. Sasser, GRU

2014 Colgate-Palmolive Company Scholarship Recipients for a Dental Residency or Specialty Program

Jose Castillo, Columbia University

Ruben Espinoza, UCSF

Edward Heath, University of Michigan

Lorena Ray, UTHSCSA

2014 Dr. Juan D. Villarreal Scholarship Recipients for Dental Students and Dental Hygiene

Melanie Dones Flores, UTHSCSA

Tanya Sue Maestas, UTHSCH

2014 A-Dec Scholarship Recipients for Third and Fourth Year Dental Students

Lilly Padilla, UCSF

Natasha V. Diaz-Vidal, GRU

2014 Proctor & Gamble Scholarship Recipients for First, Second, Third, Fourth Year Dental Students and for First and Second Year Dental Auxiliary Students

Anale Dovalina, UTHSCH

Katherine Lorenzo-Machado, NSU

Debra Peterson, Western University

Nina Pham, UTHSCH

Daniel Ramirez, UCSF

Paola Salazar, UTHSCH

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FANELLI CAFE, SoHo

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Interestingly I have only been in the Fanelli Cafe just once, in early 2006, since I tend to be an aficionado of old-time saloons. Circumstances tend to dictate which ones I visit but hopefully, the occasion will come up again before too long. Three separate institutions on the SW corner of Mercer and Prince: 94 [...]

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INDUSTRIAL SHEET METAL, Hunters Point

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A recent building teardown at 43rd Avenue and Hunter Street has revealed this decades-old wall ghost. The ST in the exchange stands for STerling or STagg, I’m unsure which. There’s some evidence of a palimpsest, or one ad painted oin top of an older one. 8/5/14

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OLD RIDGE ROAD, Long Island City

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I was meandering around Long Island City, gathering details on what would be my Brownstoner Queens post regarding 29th Street, when I thought I would check in on the condition of Old Ridge Road, since I’m drawn to these old routes that predate the present street grid. I’ve since started wondering, though, if this is [...]

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REAL OR FAKE? Tribeca

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For some time now there has been talk about whether this wall mural at West Broadway and Reade Street, which has been there since I began essaying FNY in 1998, is a real ad, or a “Boardwalk Empire” type movie prop, which has never been painted over. The mural reads “Brush up Business with Paint, [...]

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CHRIS C., Downtown Brooklyn

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There are plenty of statues of the sailor of the ocean blue, Christopher Columbus, around — one at Columbus Circle, another one at Literary Walk in Central Park, another one at Astoria Boulevard and 31st Street, and a bust on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx — but this one, at the NYS Supreme Court Building [...]

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