BUTTERNUT STREET, Morrisania

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Bronx is an urban explorer’s dream. Its mix of colliding street grids results in oddly-angled buildings and alleys. Its challenging topography means that this borough has more stepped streets than any other. Unlike the other boroughs, Bronx was annexed to New York City in a piecemeal fashion from [...]

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OIL HEATS BEST, Wakefield

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent   This well preserved ad on 233rd Street, near Paulding Ave in Wakefield, the Bronx that extols the virtues of oil heat proclaims a fact that used to be true. But the use of oil as fuel has declined precipitously as the choice of homeowners.   In fact, according [...]

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SMITH-9TH STREET TILES, Gowanus

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Two years ago [2013], when I checked out the rebuilt Smith-9th Street station serving the F and G trains, I was disappointed to see that the exterior identifying station plaques were photographs cemented onto the old stanchions. However, I’m happy to report that the artisans have come through and produced brand new versions of the [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #96: Some of Park Slope

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WHEN: Sunday, August 9th, 10 AM WHERE: Meet at the entrance of the 4th Avenue F train station, on the west side of 4th Avenue under the overpass between 9th and 10th Street HOW MUCH: $20; $15 for Greater Astoria Historical Society members HOW LONG: approximately 2 hours TERRAIN: a gentle uphill on 9th Street. [...]

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TERRA COTTA PALACE, Crown Heights

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Gary Fonville sent me a magnificent building clad in shiny terra cotta on Nostrand Avenue and Sterling Place, claiming it to be yet another lost Child’s restaurant as featured in this recent FNY special. I don’t think it is an ex-Child’s, though, since all Child’s restaurants featured a nautical theme in their terra cotta palaces [...]

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BRONX BRICKS, The Hub

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Enough asphalt has worn away on East 151st Street between Melrose and Third Avenues to allow some of the old red bricked pavement to show through. Belgian blocks used to be the pavement of choice in NYC before asphalting took over, but there are occasional red brick pavements still around, such as West 230th Street [...]

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DELICATESSEN, Greenwich Village

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I have written FNY over 16 years (as of 2015) yet, a large number of items have escaped my view over that time, such as this neon vertical sign for a long-vanished deli on West 4th and Jane Street, just off 8th Avenue. The space is now occupied by a fancy-Dan chocolatier (I’ll take Hershey’s [...]

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MITCHELL’S LIQUORS, Upper East Side

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Until now, I have somehow missed this terrific neon sign for Mitchell’s Wines • Liquors on West 86th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway. It’s just one of a large number of classic liquor store signs, whether plastic, painted or neon, I have found around town since the 1998 Dawn of Forgotten New York. In [...]

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BRONX STUDEBAKERS

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent In 1963 or so, Studebaker joined a long list of automotive names that no longer exist.  Names such as Edsel, Pinto, Corvair, LaSalle, Desoto and AMC (American Motors Corporation) exist now only in people’s memories. Studebaker did relatively well in competing with other independent car makers and the Big Three (Ford, [...]

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REMAINING CHILD’S RESTAURANTS

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The Childs restaurant chain was the creation of Samuel and William Childs. They revolutionized the American restaurant chain by creating a uniform look to each of their branches in order to make their restaurants recognizable. Their “brand” relied heavily on the portrayal of their establishments as sanitary, clean, and modern; the interiors were outfitted with [...]

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LADIES’ POND, Central Park

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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   In the center of Manhattan Island, Central Park takes up 843 glorious acres of naturalistic landscape. As summer humidity sets in, the park’s naturalistic waterways are a good place to rest: The Pond, The Lake, Turtle Pond, The Reservoir, The Pool and Harlem Meer. There is also the [...]

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CARL FISCHER, Union Square

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I can’t say why but this “faded ad” combo on East 16th Street just east of Union Square has really faded away in recent years. On the left is part of the ad for Crown Coat Fronts visible from Union Square East between East 16th and 17th Streets. The two on the right concern me [...]

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REVISITING KEAL’S, Times Square

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The southwest corner of Broadway and West 47th Street at Duffy Square was a very important spot for Forgotten NY in its very early days in March 1999 when the site launched. Under those billboards and screens (this was shot in May 2010, so they have changed since then) are some brand new buildings, but [...]

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DOUBLE DESKEY, Union Square

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NYC’s Deskey lamppost, a design of industrial developer Donald Deskey (who also designed the interior of Radio City Music Hall and the Crest toothpaste tube) was first introduced on Broadway and Murray Street in 1958, and by the early 1960s, Deskeys were the most frequently-found NYC standard-issue lamppost, eclipsing for a short time the more [...]

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33rd STREET EAGLES

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The IRT 33rd Street station, one of the original 28 stations on the Interborough Rapid Transit, or IRT, was built at the former site of the 71st Regiment Armory, which was completed a year after the subway arrived in 1904. This was actually the second armory on the site: an earlier one built in 1892 [...]

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ALL PERSONS ARE FORBIDDEN

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I was tipped recently about a surviving sign from the subways’ earliest days in the 33rd Street IRT station (#6 train) which opened in 1904: “There is a very old, almost illegible and invisible, sign on the downtown platform at 33 Street station on the 6, across the tracks on the middle poles almost directly [...]

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WASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO YANKEE STADIUM, via THE HIGH BRIDGE, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many of the photos are too bright. To compound matters, I had a smudge on the lens (despite my habit of snapping on the lens cover [...]

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PIERCE STEAM, Greenpoint

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Ancient painted words on Freeman Street near West say “Pierce Steam” something. I’d say it was likely Pierce Steam Heating, founded by John B. Pierce and Joseph Bond in 1881. By 1892 it had merged with two other companies to form American Radiator, so if this sign refers to Pierce Steam Heating, it — and [...]

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ROCCO (CARBONE), Greenwich Village

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When I passed what was the Rocco Restaurant on 181 Thompson Street a few years ago I found two-thirds of its iconic sign still lighting up. I can’t afford restaurants much, so I was unaware it had since become Carbone until I found this review in Eater that showed what had become of the sign. [...]

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NEREID AVENUE SIGN, Wakefield

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FNY Correspondent Gary Fonville: This is what I believe to be a sign that dates from the White Plains Road line’s construction around 1915. The only other extant vintage IRT sign still displayed is over the escalator at the President Street station on the 2/5 lines, and the reason why it  has survived and hasn’t been [...]

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WATERFRONT CRABHOUSE LAMPS, Hunters Point

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Word came lately that the landlord of the Market Diner on 11th Avenue and West 43rd in Hell’s Kitchen was kicking them out so he could build a monster condo building there — that part of town is getting hot as Hades due to the coming of the Hudson Yards development. One more bites the [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #93 RECAP: HUNTERS POINT

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Dour, drizzly weather and intermittent rain in part held attendance down for FNY’s first tour in Hunters Point in four years, but those who came were treated to a detailed discussion of the rapidly changing southwest Queens neighborhood. We saw well-known highlights like the new East River ferry landing, Gantry State Park, the Pepsi Cola [...]

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ATLANTIC AVENUE, Downtown Brooklyn

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A social obligation necessitated my presence on Atlantic Avenue in downtown Brooklyn the other night, and I got off the IRT #2 train in the Atlantic Avenue station, which has gradually been completely remodeled and renovated over the past decade as the Barclays Center has risen above it. Barclays partially footed the bill for station [...]

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WILLOWDELL ARCH, Central Park

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One of my favorite masonry or brick arches in Central Park is Willowdell, which takes  East Drive over the park path connecting Literary Walk and the Balto sled dog memorial (Balto was the lead sled dog who helped in the transportation of diphtheria serum across Alaska in the winter of 1925.) Central Park is home [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #95: MADISON SQUARE – LOWER 5th AVENUE

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above: Roscoe T. Conkling Madison Square features memorials to a number of little-remembered personages in American history and is ringed with interesting architecture, as is lower 5th Avenue between 23rd and 14th Streets – see it all on this tour. Beat the heat with a 2-hour tour that starts at 10AM. WHEN: Sunday, July 26th, 10 AM WHERE: Meet [...]

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WASHINGTON HEIGHTS TO YANKEE STADIUM, via THE HIGH BRIDGE, Part 1

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I’ll admit, I messed up a bit on this particular walk. For much of the tour, I had the camera at the wrong setting and many of the photos are too bright. To compound matters, I had a smudge on the lens (despite my habit of snapping on the lens cover between shots) and there’s [...]

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JOHN’S DELI, Gravesend

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Proving that the art of the painted wall ad isn’t dead is this recently inscribed ad on 86th Street and Stillwell Avenue. Unless it’s repainted, succeeding generations will be poring over it after its inevitable fade and wondering just what it said. 7/10/15

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HDA and HDAF announce 2015 Scholarship Winners

Impacting the Future of Hispanic Dentistry through Scholarships
HDA and HDAF announce 2015 Scholarship Winners

AUSTIN, TX- July 10, 2015— HDA is pleased to announce the National Scholarship Winners of 2015. With the mission of building healthier Hispanic communities, and connecting with partners and developing leaders who impact transformational strategies for education, scholarship, and research, the 2015 donors sponsoring these scholarships consist of: A-dec, Colgate, Dr. Juan D. Villarreal, Dr. Esperanza Rodriguez, HDAF, and Proctor & Gamble. Scholarship Press Release

Scholarship Recipients

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LA FRIEDA MEATS, Greenwich Village

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In 2010 I snapped this photo on Leroy and Washington Streets of a vinyl and plastic sign for La Frieda Meats, a 4th generation butcher that has gained an enviable reputation for quality products, and in the age of celebrity chefs and restaurants on TV it’s all about connections: Mario Batali, Danny Meyer, Martha Stewart [...]

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BLOODGOOD H. CUTTER, Douglaston

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I recently found myself staggering around in the intense heat in the Zion Churchyard in Douglaston, drawn there by their annual Strawberry Festival and intrigued by the promise of free strawberries and ice cream. I did indeed get the strawberries, but like Captain Queeg, found a discrepancy. I had to purchase a $4.00 ticket for [...]

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LITCHFIELD VILLA, Prospect Park

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Prospect Park has a number of surprises that were in place long before the Park was created in the 1870s. One of these is Litchfield Villa, just inside the entrance at Prospect Park South and 5th Street.  It was built by engineer Edwin Litchfield, who figures prominently in early Park Slope and Gowanus history: he [...]

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FLUSHING POST OFFICE

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As post office architecture goes, Colonial Revival is a popular style — Flushing’s majestic post office building, Main Street and Sanford Avenue, with its pediment and six Ionic columns, is similar to post offices in Hunters Point and also in St. George, Staten Island. It was constructed from 1932-1934 and designed by Dwight James Baum [...]

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MORE FORMER BANKS

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For over ten years, my MTA bus dispatcher compadre Gary Fonville has been providing photos and stories behind buildings and signs he has seen along his former routes. He has provided yet more entries in his former banks series — starting now: By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY Correspondent  At the Junction (Flatbush Avenue, Nostrand Avenue and [...]

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EBBETS FIELD FLAGPOLE, Downtown Brooklyn

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Few sections of Brooklyn have changed more than the eastern end of Downtown, about where it meets Fort Greene, at the confluence of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. I was a daily commuter to this part of town beginning in 1971 and for about ten years after that, attending Cathedral Prep High School and later Saint [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #94: SOUTHERN CENTRAL PARK

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Check out southern Central Park’s highlights including iron and masonry bridges, a replica of a medieval lamppost from medieval Germany, and structures like the Dairy, Chess and Checkers House and Cop Cot. Beat the heat with a 2-hour tour that starts at 10AM, and a special reduced price: $10 for members of the Greater Astoria Historical [...]

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HOBOKEN, 2014

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In the summer of 2014 I took multiple walks up and down the streets of Hoboken, NJ, hoping to do an epic series of posts capturing its small-town minutiae. I didn’t finish — I have yet to walk the streets west of Clinton Street — and I’m despairing of ever finishing because I’m tied up [...]

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ALAN LEFCOURT, Midtown

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For years I had labored under the idea that the two busts (one above the door, the other on the top floor)  that you can see on the Brill Building, NW corner of Broadway and West 49th, honored someone in the Brill family for which the building is named. I was wrong about that. They honor [...]

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What is the Right Retirement Plan for Me?

While many dentists believe that their retirement will be funded by the sale of their dental practice – or shares, if the business is co- owned – the value of the business could change over time. Among the many factors that can affect the value of your dental practice are the economic climate, employee performance and the success or failure of a new venture. That is why it is critical that you avoid investing your entire retirement nest egg in your dental practice and instead, diversify by employing other sources of retirement income.

Retirement planning is a balancing act that requires diligence, foresight and proper planning. For this reason, doing a little research and asking questions can help make a real difference. Learn more about the appropriate retirement plan(s) for you and your dental practice.

Visit MassMutual.com to locate a Financial Professional near you.

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CDC Launches Oral Health Data: A New Open Data Platform

Oral Health Data brings together data from multiple sources into an integrated platform where people can see oral health indicator data, all in one place. Oral Health Data replaces the existing National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS), Oral Health Maps, and State Synopses websites. The new, integrated data application brings together oral health data in a whole new way. Users can filter up-to-date data by indicator type, topic, geographic location, year, or data source. They can view data in maps, graphs, and tables and use the data portal to pull targeted insights with filtering and visualization tools.

The Division of Oral Health (DOH) is continuing to work on the data side to make new data and capabilities available to Oral Health Data’s users. In the initial release, users will have access to:

• State level fluoridation indicator data from 2000-2012;

• State level child indicator data from 1993-2013; and

• State level adult indicator data from 1999-2010.

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At the same time, the newest version of My Water’s Fluoride (MWF) 2.0 will offer the site’s 700,000+ annual visitors:

• The most current data that each state has provided to WFRS;

• The water system data they are looking for, in understandable terms; and

• A streamlined interface through which they can find fluoridation status in just 4 clicks.

See how to use the new MWF 2.0 site at: http://ift.tt/1CKrR8D

State Synopsis data will be added as soon as this year’s Synopsis is published

 

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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, Central Park South

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I know about Thomas Gainsborough, but I pretty much know about him because of The Kinks. The portrait and landscape painter’s (1727-1788) most famous work is The Blue Boy, rendered in 1770 and thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttall, son of a merchant of Gainsborough’s acquaintance, at age 18. It was painted in [...]

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HDA partners with W.K. Kellogg Foundation

June 30, 2015

For Immediate Release

 Hispanic Dental Association partners with W.K. Kellogg Foundation in National Effort to eliminate oral health disparities in the Hispanic Community by launching a National Hispanic/Latino Oral Health Education Campaign

AUSTIN, TEXAS. – The 2015 National Hispanic/Latino Oral Health Education Campaign begins on June 30^th.  The project is funded by a $50,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of BattleCreek, Mich.

“As the Hispanic Community continues to grow, oral health disparities are not being addresses at a pace that keeps up with the increase in the population size.  We look forward to an impactful partnership where we can empower the public with culturally appropriate oral health information,” voiced Dr. Vidal Balderas DDS, President of the Hispanic Dental Association.

Campaign efforts will be national in scope, but highlight and focus in cities where HDA has a professional chapter and be augmented through its 34 Dental Student Chapters. The focus centers on 3 key components;

1. Educate dental oral health professionals regarding the oral health needs of the underserved population
in their communities suffering from untreated dental disease.

2. Educate private practitioners on how to strengthen and expand the public/private health safety net
through new innovative oral health providers and workforce models.

3. Educate the Hispanic/Latino population on disease prevention and dental health through bi-lingual
messaging and materials.

Read More: HDA WK Kellogg Press Release

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