MUSIC PAGODA, Prospect Park

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Prospect Park’s Music Pagoda sits at the north end of the Nethermead and just south of the “wilderness” (actually a carefully-crafted region) known as the Ravine. The Pagoda is an octagonal-shaped structure built in 1887 with its base consisting of rocks and boulders that were removed from Sullivan Hill, which lies east of the Ravine [...]

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LEGACY OF THE BROWN M, Woodside

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A legacy of the M train’s brown identification “bullet” can be found at a Long Island Rail Road underpass at 32nd Avenue and 56th Street in Woodside where, incidentally, no “subway” except the #7 Flushing Line El (identified by a purple bullet) runs. No subway line has been shuffled around as much as the M [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #101: DYKER HEIGHTS-ERICSON SQUARE

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Check out Dyker Heights’ wealth of interesting buildings, as well as McKinley Park and Leif Ericson Square, a touchstone for the Scandinavian history of the area, in this neighborhood considered a NYC suburb until the coming of the subway. We will also touch on the history of Ovington Village, a former artists’ colony, and the [...]

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MADISON STREET, Greenpoint

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I’ve found something og a mystery at the SW corner of Franklin and Oak Streets in Greenpoint… a chiseled sign showing Oak as Madison. As mentioned on a previous Greenpoint street nomenclature page, the neighborhood’s street naming system had been simplicity itself in the past: A through Q excepting the L street for Greenpoint Avenue [...]

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DUNSCOMB PLACE, Turtle Bay

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Much of Manhattan is a numbered street grid, with the exception of lower Manhattan below Houston Street, Greenwich Village, and many streets far uptown in Inwood and the Dyckman Street area. However, while most of Manhattan’s cross streets are numbered, you’ll occasionally find one-block stretches that used to have a name: for example, Charles Street [...]

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NEW STREET, Financial District

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Believe it or not this sign, which hung at New Street and Exchange Place way downtown, is being auctioned on Ebay for $43,000. I seriously doubt such a number will be the final auction price. In 1988, I purchased a similar sign in a lot at 6th Avenue and West 28th Street for $50, and [...]

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DEEP FLUSHING, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October 2015, when its intrinsic oderifousness is tamped down just a little. My idea started when I did an item on an obscure lane, Birds Alley, that ceased to be a mapped street decades ago, but its path is preserved [...]

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NEW AND OLD TECHNOLOGY, Canarsie

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I was stumbling around Canarsie, crazed from the 75-degree heat in October, when I spotted a reminder of how technologies considered cutting-edge in their day seem comically out of time today. This is a telephone pole at Avenue L and East 87th Street, and from the splintering I’d imagine it’s been there since the 1930s, [...]

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ST. CLAIR RESTAURANT, Boerum Hill

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I was in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn the other day and I noticed that the original sign of the old St. Clair Restaurant at Atlantic avenue and Smith Streets had been exposed during building renovations. The “old” St. Clair has been home to the “postgame show” of a couple of Forgotten NY tours held in [...]

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Calling for Board Nominations

Are you willing to serve on the National Board of Trustees?

APPLICATION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 25, 2015

The Board represents a broad cross section of oral health leaders. Each member is essential to the success of the HDA and must understand and fulfill the responsibilities and commitments required of this position. The responsibilities shared among the Board of
Trustees include: the governance of the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA), direction of its work and control of its property. It sets the overall organization policy and guides its direction through the adoption of an annual strategic plan.

Student Members: You are welcome to apply for a Student Trustee seat on our board.

If you are interested in serving on the 2016 Board, please review requirements
and submit your BOARD APPLICATION no later than November 25, 2015
Self-Nominations Accepted.

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STREET SIGNS, Richmond Hill

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Some interesting stuff going on in this Google Street View picture of Jamaica Avenue and 110th Street in Richmond Hill from 2011: There’s that white and blue 110th Street sign, and the odd “One-Way” and “110th Street” signs on the elevated train pillar. 1) The white and blue signs aren’t leftovers; they were a temporary [...]

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STATEN ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE, Lighthouse Hill

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Staten Island has several land-anchored lighthouses (Brooklyn and the Bronx have once apiece, and Manhattan’s is on Roosevelt Island). The Staten Island Lighthouse, built on Edinboro Road in Lighthouse Hill near Richmondtown from 1907-1912 and operating since 1912, is one of Staten Island’s architectural treasures. In its early days, the lighthouse keeper kept oil-powered pumps going [...]

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FREEMAN ALLEY, Bowery

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I first saw Freeman Alley on a map in the 1980s, when I went to the Rand McNally Map Store on East 53rd Street just east of 5th Avenue and purchased an American Map Company atlas of New York city marketed as by the Cleartype brand. I don’t know if any map buffs reading this [...]

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DEEP FLUSHING, PART 1

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Downtown Flushing is noisy, overcrowded, and smells horrible. That’s why, naturally, I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October, when the oderifousness is tamped down just a little. My idea started when I did an item on an obscure lane, Birds Alley, that ceased to be a mapped street decades [...]

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BIRDS ALLEY, Flushing

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There’s a short angled driveway on the north side of 32nd Avenue in an industrial end of  Flushing trailing off east of Downing Street. I have had it in the back of my head for a few years now, because I know it has a name — at7 least, Google Street View has give it [...]

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ADA Awards Presidential Citation To HDA

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President Obama Congratulates HDA For Its 25 Years Of Service

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STILL STONE(D) IN BEDFORD-STUYVESANT

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It looks like an ordinary Brooklyn corner, but it inadvertently memorializes some of Brooklyn history. When Bedford-Stuyvesant and southern Williamsburg’s streets were laid out and given names in the early 20th Century, many of them were given the names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Stone Avenue, a fairly lengthy avenue running from [...]

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KRASNER’S PHARMACY, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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Vinyl signs that had been installed on a drugstore on the corner of Ralph Avenue and Park Place have recently been removed, revealing a pair of signs from different eras: the original vinyl Krasner’s Pharmacy ad and hand-drawn signs for the following owner, Gulshan Pharmacy.   Interestingly both older signs are missing the usual vessel-with-a-pestle [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #100: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

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For FNY’s 100th tour, I’m back in Green-Wood Cemetery this year after two Octobers in Evergreens Cemetery in Bushwick. For the first time on a FNY tour, the east side of Green-Wood will be explored, where the remains of Boss Tweed, piano manufacturers Henry and William Steinway, entertainer Lola Montez, NYC mayor William Jay Gaynor, [...]

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CHAMBERS STREET IRT STATION SIGN

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Bob Mulero, who usually finds remaining ancient Streetlights of New York City, found this vintage hand-drawn sign on one of the pillars in the IRT Chambers Street station, serving the #1, 2 and 3 trains. The station opened on July 1, 1918; its mosaics feature Kings College, which was once downtown but expanded into Columbia [...]

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ST. MARK’S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Bushwick

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The “City of Churches” has lost more of its more distinctive steeples as the former St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church at Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson Street, dedicated in 1892, is covered in scaffolding, its school next door hollowed out, and its steeple already gone as the building is being converted to a luxury residential. Perahps [...]

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LADIES OF MADISON SQUARE

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Doctor Thomas Addis Emmet was quite a man of letters in the late 19th and early 20th Century — a gynecologist by trade, he was a book collector and a vehement critic of Irish rule in England, and a relative of NYS Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet, an Irish immigrant who had been involved in [...]

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MESEROLE STREET, Williamsburg

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In northern Brooklyn, you have to watch your step and be careful. Careful inspection of street signs, that is. Up there, there are two streets called Meserole. The first, Meserole Avenue, is in Greenpoint and runs east-west from Franklin Street east to Russell. A further section from North Henry east to Kingsland Avenue was eliminated [...]

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BROADWAY, Brooklyn

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A couple of interesting things going on with this view of Brooklyn’s Broadway just west of Havemeyer Street: here the elevated train veers off Broadway to ascend a ramp onto the Williamsburg Bridge, but behind the billboard is a stub end of a former elevated extension to the waterfront at Kent Avenue, where there had [...]

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CUNNINGHAM PARK 1940, Hollis Hills

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According to the New York Times, the name “Hollis” comes via Frederick W. Dunton, the first developer of the area, which was once known as East Jamaica. He was a native of Hollis, New Hampshire. Originally, Hollis, a parallelogram defined by 180th Street, Francis Lewis Boulevard, Hillside Avenue and 104th Avenue and bisected by Jamaica Avenue, [...]

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LINDSAY FOR MAYOR, Flatbush

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A painted campaign ad for John Vliet Lindsay has been in view for a few years on Flatbush Avenue, visible as you are traveling south at the X-shaped intersection with Bedford Avenue. I have been by here a number of times over the years but I was always walking north on Bedford! So, I’ll show [...]

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GEORGE F. WAGNER BUTTER & CHEESE, Tribeca

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While stumbling around Tribeca scouting the ForgottenTour that was held on October 4, 2015, I saw this painted ad at #77 Hudson Street just south of Harrison Street, and I had despaired of ever figuring out what it said, since it had just about faded away. Closer inspection reveals it’s a palimpsest of at least [...]

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R.I.P. WILLOUGHBY HUMPBACK SIGN

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A bit late on this notice, but Steven Gembara, author of New York City’s Red & Green Lights – A Brief Look Back in Time  informs me that this last “humpbacked” Brooklyn street sign has finally been removed by the Department of Transportation. The stretch of Willoughby past the University Towers between Fleet Street and [...]

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70 THOMAS STREET, Tribeca

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Here’s an item I didn’t get to because of time constraints on the Forgotten NY Tribeca tour on Sunday, October 4, 2015: The gold leaf signage on this building on narrow Thomas Street, just east of West Broadway, on the corner occupied by The Odeon. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, #70 Thomas Street was [...]

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SQUARE DINER, Tribeca

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Classic, railway-car shaped diners have become scarce in Manhattan (and to a lesser degree other boroughs)  since the Bloomberg Era ushered in Luxury City. Property owners and developers look with disdain on diners, diner fare, and diner customers. They believe that the real estate that diners take up is best used for real moneymakers like [...]

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METROPOLITAN AVENUE, Part 5

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PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as a toll road and was known  along much of its length as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike until the mid-1800s, when it was bestowed its [...]

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GAY STREET, Greenwich Village

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Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which  contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name of the street predates Greenwich Village’s gay community by several decades, but the derivation is in dispute. In Naming New York, Sanna Feirstein claims it was named [...]

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DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK BUILDING, Fordham

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One of my favorites in Fordham is the Dime Bank tower on the east side of the Grand Concourse north of Fordham Road.  This Bronx landmark was built by Halsey, McCormack and Helmer, who also built Brooklyn’s answer to the Empire State Building, the Williamsburg Savings Bank, now known as One Hanson Place. Like that [...]

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