PARISH HOUSE, Ditmas Park

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One of the extraordinary buildings we saw on the recent Ditmas Park – Flatbush FNY tour was the original parish house for the Flatbush-Tompkins Congregational Church on East 18th Street just off Dorchester Road. The church itself is a later construction dating to 1910. The multi-dormered Shingle Style building dates to 1899. It has multiple [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #84: Ditmas Park and Flatbush, Brooklyn

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The weather hopefully began a new winning streak for ForgottenTour #84, Saturday, September 27th, with sun and 80 degrees. ForgottenFans met at the recently restored historic stationhouse at the Brighton Line (Q train) Avenue H line, which was built in 1905 as a real estate office for local developer T.B. Ackerson. About 25 tourgoers and [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #83, Little Neck-Douglaston

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The two “northeasternmost” of Queens’ neighborhoods, Douglaston and Little Neck, somehow seem carved out of the rather exclusive, definitely monied precincts of the Nassau County towns immediately to the east, Great Neck and Manhasset. Part of it is their compactness: both neighborhoods are served by a short shopping strip along Northern Boulevard, and the area’s [...]

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TRUMAN CAPOTE HOUSE, Brooklyn Heights

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The pale yellow Greek Revival house at #70 Willow Street near Orange Street in the heart of Brooklyn Heights would be distinctive even if one of the world’s most famed authors never lived in it. The squarish house is one of Brooklyn Heights’ older buildings, built in 1839 by a descendant of the Dutch families [...]

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CROWN HEIGHTS TO PROSPECT PARK

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In August I was on my way to a gathering in Prospect Park South, near the Parade Grounds. Instead of the usual thing, the F train to Church Avenue, I decided to make a stroll out of it and take the #2 to Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway and walk from there. It was one [...]

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SHELTER, Long Island City

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During the spring I was making my way down Newtown Avenue in Astoria (which isn’t the same as Newtown Road, but actually is, as the two roads actually made up one colonial-era thoroughfare that survived past the imposition of the street grid in the 19th Century) when I spotted a familiar sight at 23rd Street, [...]

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PIERCE-ARROW BUILDING, Long Island City

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Ford car parts painted ad, Northern Boulevard near Queens Plaza, now covered over by a new building Northern Boulevard has long been a road given over to the automobile. (Of course, Captain Obvious.) What I mean is that while the mother road of the north shore of Long Island is home to many used car [...]

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TAXI DRIVERS WANTED, Queens Plaza

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During my increasingly lengthy “between full time job” stints, I always flagellate myself into regretting I never learned to drive. Car services always have the need for drivers. I’m told acquiring a taxi medallion is nearly impossible because they are astronomical in price (why, then, aren’t cab drivers all rich?) While meandering aimlessly in the [...]

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HUNTS LANE lamp, Brooklyn Heights

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The back alleys of Brooklyn Heights offer, or used to offer, a variety of strange street lighting options. I found this one on the east end of Hunts Lane, a former stable mews off Henry Street near Remsen. Officially known as a Type SL200 mercury vapor fixture, I’m unsure if it was manufactured by General [...]

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The LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE ERA BEGINS

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Light-emitting diode lamps (LEDs), which emit a bright white light, have already appeared on several NYC expressways and parkways, and it appears that Northern Boulevard in Long Island City and Astoria will be the vanguard of LEDs as the gradual takeover from high pressure sodium lamps, which shine a bright yellow. The city replaced all [...]

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AVENUE Q, Gravesend – Marine Park

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There’s no Avenue Q in Brooklyn, and there’s no E or G, either; E became Foster Avenue and G became Glenwood Road long ago. The reasons for those switcheroos are murky, but the reason there’s no Avenue Q is quite clear. In the late 19th Century, the street system of the towns of Flatbush, Gravesend [...]

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7th AVENUE, Park Slope

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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 installing a new species of street sign on NYC streets, made of flexible vinyl attached with metal braces. The first generation of this [...]

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SHEA STADIUM SIGN, Woodside

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The MTA hasn’t been completely diligent in erasing all traces of Shea Stadium signage, though I’m likely dooming this remnant by showing it here. It’s on the dead-end portion of 62nd Street that faces the LIRR eastbound platform near Woodside Avenue. Shea stadium closed on September 28, 2008 and was torn down the following year. [...]

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HIGH BRIDGE REBUILDING, Washington Heights

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High Bridge, which spans the Harlem River between High Bridge Park at about West 174th Street and University Avenue (MLK Boulevard) and West 170th Street in the Bronx, is hard to photograph these days, as construction has closed off the immediate area in High Bridge Park and the tall stone towers are mostly enclosed by [...]

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FORGOTTEN QUEENS CHAT, Mid-Manhattan Library

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Join me for a Forgotten Queens Powerpoint presentation at the Mid-Manhattan Library, 5th Avenue and East 40th Street, New York, as I present images from the new Arcadia book Forgotten Queens, c0-authored by me and the Greater Astoria Historical Society. I’ll take questions and will have books for sale. Time: 6:30 PM, Tuesday, September 23rd [...]

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BEAUTY CENTER, Woodside

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This ad for a Woodside “Beauty Center” visible from the Manhattan-bound #7 train platform at 61st-Woodside gets just a bit more faded each year. I do remember, though, that the ad featured a somewhat less than beautiful beauty on it. It’s all a matter of taste, though. 9/10/14

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ANCIENT TRAFFIC SIGN, Flatbush

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Like the rings in a tree, certain clues can help you identify the age of street signs found around NYC. This one, at Beverley Road and East 21st Street, is particularly aged. For one thing, it was installed by the “Department of Traffic” which was reinvented as the Department of Transportation in 1977. According to [...]

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DRINK COCA-COLA, Flatbush

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A pair of these classic Coca-Cola signboards appear outside Michelle’s Restaurant at Bedford Avenue and Albemarle Road opposite the old Ebinger’s bakery complex. These signs may have been installed prior to 1969, since they don’t feature the distinctive swash, known as the “white wave” or “Dynamic Ribbon Device.” As far as the script font in [...]

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HIDING IN TIMES SQUARE

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There’s been an added emphasis this summer on one of the very first things I ever examined for Forgotten NY when I began this thing in 1999 — the locked door at the west end of the north Times Square Shuttle platform, with the mysterious word “Knickerbocker” emossed over it. This, of course, was a [...]

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SPECIAL POST CODE 346, Bronx

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NYC Lamppost King Bob Mulero passes along a look at Special Post Code 346, which once graced a Major Deegan Expressway ramp. On the left is how it appeared in a 1934 catalog listing. By 1985 it had accumulated warning signals, a pair of spotlights and a triangle arrowhead expressway marker. It had lost its [...]

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WOODLAWN ROAD, Norwood

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One of the more curious aspects of the Metropolitan Transit Authority is that it will preserve archaic street names for no apparent reason. There was a rationale for preserving older Queens street names, as the Astoria line, the Liberty Avenue line, the Flushing Line and the Rockaway line do, because when these els were built, [...]

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CASCADE LAUNDRY, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Cascade Linen Service, which supplied table napkins and tablecloths to restaurants citywide, called this modest red brick building at Myrtle and Marcy Avenues home from 1898-2010, but developers have had eyes on it for some time. The site was purchased for $27M in 2013, according to Curbed, and you would have to think that a [...]

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