BRIDGING FURMAN STREET, Brooklyn Heights

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Furman Street runs north from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street along the East River waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. It has undergone two separate areas of feverish activity, separated by an era in between of nothing much happening at all. Beginning in the 1800s and continuing to the late 20th Century, this was a dockside area [...]

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FORGOTTEN NEW YORK TOUR #98: BAYSIDE, QUEENS

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A visit to this suburban Queens neighborhood that is home to several waterside parks and ponds, an obscure family cemetery and surprisingly interesting architecture, including the home of one of the United States’ greatest prizefighters. WHEN: Sunday, September 13th, 12 NOON WHERE: Meet at the Bayside LIRR station, Manhattan-bound side at 41st Avenue and 213th [...]

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RETURN TO HUNTERS POINT

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Dominie’s Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie), in 1643. The land was later owned by British sea captain George Hunter and by 1825 had become known as Hunter’s Point. It began the [...]

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TELEPHONE EXCHANGE, Bayside

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Telephone exchanges in the USA used to feature two initial letters, and if you have an old-fashioned dial or pushbutton telephone, you can still use them if you know what the exchange was for your area. In NYC the exchanges occasionally, but not frequently, stood for the neighborhoods in which they applied, such as on [...]

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2015 Day of Service Sirviendo a Nuestros Heroes-Serving our Heroes

On Thursday, August 13th, the Hispanic Dental Association joined the San Antonio Christian Center in an event to serve our Veterans. Together HDA and San Antonio Christian Center served  76 patients and 544 procedures were performed. 

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Commemorate Video

2015 Hispanic Dental Association honoree, Mr. Ian Cook, CEO & President of Colgate Palmolive celebrated HDA’s 25th Anniversary by unveiling this commemorate video.

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2ND STREET, Williamsburg

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On one of Wythe Avenue’s older remaining buildings at South 5th Street, now home to Brazilian restaurant Miss Favela and across the street from the Williamsburg Bridge approach ramps, are a pair of chiseled signs on the corner…   One sign renders the recognizable South 5th, while the other merely says “Second Street” in place [...]

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JAPANESE HOUSE, Prospect Park South

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Prospect Park South’s famed “Japanese house” at #131 Buckingham Road between Church Avenue and Albemarle Road was designed in 1901 and contains carefully adapted Japanese temple detailing including 3 stained glass windows with dragon motifs. Japanese artisans were hired to provide expertise on the details. The house originally sold for $26,500, which was a quite [...]

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N STREET, GREENPOINT

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After Greenpoint’s grid street system was laid out by developer/entrepreneur Neziah Bliss in the mid-1800s, east-west cross streets were named simply, A through Q Streets from north to south. Greenpoint Avenue was a plank road that was bridged over Newtown Creek, entering the Queens township that gave the creek its name, but it later became National Street [...]

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WEST SIDE HIGHWAY

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New Yorkers of a Certain Age will remember the elevated West Side Highway — constructed on pillars over West Street and 12th Avenue in the 1930s, it connected downtown Manhattan with the Henry Hudson Parkway uptown. It was constructed in the early 1930s and was originally called the Julius Miller Highway for Manhattan’s borough preseident [...]

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ALONG THE (OTHER) BROOKLYN WATERFRONT, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 Continuing my trip along Brooklyn’s “other” waterfront: In contrast to Brooklyn Bridge Park and the developing Williamsburg and Greenpoint waterfronts, whose new parks and waterside rich people storage units are covered in every page on the World Wide Web from Brownstoner to Gothamist to Curbed, the much older western waterfront along [...]

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MICHAEL J. QUILL BUS DEPOT, Hell’s Kitchen

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The MTA’s Michael J. Quill Bus Depot sits at 11th Avenue and West 41st Street at the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel. Labor leader Quill (1905-1966) was the founder of the Transport Workers Union (TWU). He is, perhaps, best remembered for a quote after the TWU struck in January 1966 and Mayor John Lindsay had obtained a court injunction to [...]

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312 WEST 73rd STREET

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I was veering west on West 73rd Street on my way to Riverside Park, nearly insensate from the unrelenting heat, when I came across an unusual building — I use that word since it seemed much more sparely and non-ostentatiously built. I also noticed the large bay in the front, a conceit that was also [...]

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FLETCHER’S CASTORIA, Jamaica

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photo: Kyle DeMilo For aficionados of ancient painted signage, Fletcher’s Castoria ads have been a staple for decades: the mild children’s stomach remedy has been sold since 1871 and formerly had myriad numbers of signs on buildings not only in NYC, but in cities countrywide. I’ve featured this one before, on Archer Avenue just east [...]

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NO UMBRELLAS, NO CANES, Crown Heights

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent At the President Street station, on the IRT Nostrand Avenue line, this may be the oldest remaining sign of any kind in that division, probably dating from the line’s construction around 1920. An escalator is necessary here due to this being the deepest station on that line. Since [...]

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BARGE TRANSFER STATION, Riverside Park

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In 2001, a new stretch of Riverside Park was opened between the west end of West 59th Street at a NYC Sanitation depot and West 72nd Street in association with a large apartment house development located atop the former West Side Rail Yards. By 2012, the park had been fully constructed, with a bicycle path, [...]

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BEEKMAN PLACE CROOK

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There is a classic Bishop Crook post in the United Nations area that I haven’t featured in FNY much over the years. The reason is simple. I never seem to be over there at a good time to get decent photos of it — there always see to be too many shadows. Fortunately NYC’s King [...]

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MOUNT LEBANON BAPTIST CHURCH, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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I had gotten on a C train at Franklin Avenue and I was heading east when I wanted to head west (I rarely make that mistake but transferring from the shuttle from Botanic Gardens has some confusing signage) and got off at Utica Avenue to change over to the other side when I noticed this [...]

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ALONG THE (OTHER) BROOKLYN WATERFRONT, Part 1

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This week I was looking at some photos of the Brooklyn waterfront that I took in 2011 along Furman Street. At that time, Brooklyn Bridge Park had been built out only along the end of Old Fulton Street at Pier 1 (the waterfront from Atlantic Avenue to Old Fulton is made up of Piers 1 [...]

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PS 36 MYSTERY, Castle Hill–Unionport

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Students, teachers and administrators on PS 36, on Castle Hill Avenue south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, if they even notice them, may be mystified about the carven street names on the corners of the building: “Avenue C,” “8th Street” and 9th Street.” The actual streets are named Castle Hill Avenue, Blackrock Avenue and Watson [...]

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FORMER WOODSIDE PAVILION

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The residents of this small house on the northwest corner of 39th Avenue and 57th Street in Woodside probably don’t know it but they’re living in one of the former hotspots in Woodside. In the 1880s the house was known as Berry’s Hotel; Jake Berry was the former owner of Manhattan’s Columbia Opera House, and [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #97: Those Guys in Grand Army Plaza

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A walk round Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn to see the little-known personalities depicted on its statuary, including the general whose namesake ship was involved in the second greatest loss of life event in NYC history and the only bust of a gynecologist in NYC; and a look at nearby attractions in Prospect Park, and [...]

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“CRIMSON BEECH”, Lighthouse Hill

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This beautiful building, #48 Manor Court in Lighthouse Hill, Staten Island, is Frank Lloyd Wright’s sole private home design in New York City, yet he never saw its completion, as it was finished the year he died, 1959. Wright did plan to visit the construction site in 1958 but illness kept him away. The lengthy [...]

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WHITEHALL BUILDING, Battery

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Seen prominently from the north end of Battery Park is the 20-story Whitehall Building at #17 Battery Place, constructed at the height of the Beaux-Arts era from 1902-1904. The architect was Henry Hardenburgh, who has many buildings around town, most notably the Plaza Hotel at Grand Army Plaza at 5th Avenue and Central Park. Shrouded [...]

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BROOKLYN CITY RAILROAD, Sunset Park

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This stolid, 3-story brick building, which takes up the entire block between 2nd and 3rd Avenue and 58th and 59th Street in Sunset Park, now occupied by a variety of small businesses and industries, was once a depot for a lost aspect of NYC transportation. It was a carbarn, or depot, for the Brooklyn City [...]

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161st STREET, Concourse

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In mid-July 2015 I had just attended a show at Poe Park in Fordham, at  the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road, featuring photographs taken on and around the recently reopened High Bridge, when I was reminded that there was a large art exhibit, When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out, taking [...]

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FRED CHRIST TRUMP, Woodhaven

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In a supermarket parking lot, surrounded by shopping carts, stands the Woodhaven Historical Society’s monument to a native son, Frederick Christ (pronounced “krist”with i as in “bit”) Trump (1905-1999). Fred Trump’s middle name was his mother’s maiden name. Fred Trump began building middle-class houses in Queens during the 1920s and built Trump Market here at [...]

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GARDINER-TYLER HOUSE, West Brighton

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The Gardiner Tyler Mansion, 27 Tyler Avenue between Bement Avenue and Clove Road, was constructed circa 1835 when most of the surrounding region consisted of farms and fields. President John Tyler’s widow, Julia Gardiner Tyler (1820-1889) resided in this house during the Civil War. Virginian John Tyler, the 10th President, was the first US President to [...]

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CIRCO’S PASTRY SHOP, Bushwick

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Circo’s Bakery, at 312 Knickerbocker Avenue at Hart Street, has been a Bushwick fixture since 1945, according to the store’s website. Original founder Circo sold the shop to two longtime bakers in 1973, and one of them, Nino Pierdipino, still runs the shop with his two sons Salvatore and Anthony. The sign may or may not [...]

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SCENES FROM THE PLATFORM, Queensboro Plaza

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So I was hanging around on the west end of the Queensboro Plaza station in the brain-melting heat of the NYC summer, trying to get to Astoria, when I saw a couple of unusual and soon-to-be-retired subway train sets. The station provides nearby views of midtown Manhattan as well as clear views of Astoria and [...]

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DUMONT SURVIVOR, Williamsburg

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A sign on Union Avenue perpetuates the memory of two different businesses in the same location. Long before Fox launched a ‘new’ fourth TV network in 1986, the DuMont network was in business between 1946 and 1956, presenting the original Honeymooners, Captain Video and Bishop Fulton Sheen. The DuMont network developed from the research efforts of DuMont [...]

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8th AVENUE, Park Slope

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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 decided to take a direct route back to the F train, which has an entrance at 8th Avenue and 9th Street. (Unlike some parts [...]

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