CONCORD STREET – BRIDGE PLAZA, Brooklyn

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Concord Street is one of those east-west Brooklyn streets that can’t be neatly fitted into a neighborhood. It’s too far east to be in Brooklyn Heights, too far south to be in DUMBO, too far west to be in Fort Greene, and too far north, really, to be part of Downtown the way, say, Fulton [...]

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2016 Presidential Award Honorees

Dr. Robert Edwab

Dr. Robert Edwab received his D.D.S. degree from Howard University, right here in Washington D.C. Following graduation, he went directly into an Oral and Maxillofacial training program at Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan. As a Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon, he was in private practice in Brooklyn, New York for over 25 years. He had teaching appointments at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York University College of Dentistry and at New York Medical College at Metropolitan Hospital Center with affiliations at Valhalla, NY.

After moving up the ladder and serving at each level as an officer in the Second District Dental Society, which represents the 1,500 Dentists in Brooklyn and Staten Island, he became President in 1989. He remained on their Board for over 20 years and earned the distinction of serving the longest time in the Society’s history as the editor of its monthly Bulletin. In 1990, he was appointed to the Greater New York Dental Meeting where he became General Chairman in 1998.

Dr. Edwab lectures and offers hands-on-workshops on basic Oral Surgery for general practitioners at Dental Meetings both domestically and internationally. He has had numerous published articles in many professional dental journals.  As a life-long student, this past December, he completed his studies and earned his MBA. or the past 14 years, Robert has been the Executive Director of the Greater New York Dental Meeting. During his time in that position, he has assisted in its growth to become not only the largest Dental event in the United States, but also one of the largest healthcare events in the United States. Last November, the Greater New York Dental Meeting registered over 54,000 attendees from all 50 States and 131 countries.

As a longtime supporter of the Hispanic Dental Association, Dr. Edwab and the Greater New York Dental Meeting have supported our Association and even opened their headquarters at night so our HDA components could use their headquarters’ board room for monthly meetings.

 

Dr. Rafael A. Lantigua

Dr. Lantigua received his MD degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo in 1972.  He completed his residency in internal medicine at Lincoln Hospital, where he also served as a chief resident. After completing an endocrinology fellowship at the Rochester University School of Medicine in 1980, he joined the Division of General Medicine at Columbia as a faculty member.  Since 1994 he has served as Associate Division Chief of the Division of General Medicine and as Medical Director of the Associates in Internal Medicine (AIM) practice.  He is a member of the

Admission Committee of Columbia University Medical School and member of the Internal Medicine

Residency Selection Committee.  Since 1995, he has represented Columbia University at the American Medical Association (AMA) Section on Medical Schools.  In 2010 he served on the AMA Executive Committee.  From 2005-2010 he served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute on Aging (NIA).

He has been actively involved in research on issues that affect the quality of life in minority populations. From 1988-94 he served as co-investigator in a large-scale community-based New YorkState Department of Health Program at Columbia to promote awareness and education of cardio-vascular disease in the Washington Heights-Inwood community.  From 1998-2008 he served as the principal investigator in the National Institute of Aging-funded Columbia Center for Active Life of Minority Elders (Resource Center for Minority Aging Research).  Since 1999 Dr. Lantigua has served as Deputy Director of the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain, Columbia University.  He has published more than 60 medical articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Lantigua is co-founder and previously was Chairperson of the Board of Alianza Dominicana, Inc., the major community-based organization serving the Dominican Community in the United States. He is Co-founder and former Chairperson of the Board of the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrants Rights.

He has served in multiple Boards of non-for profit organizations such as the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund, Puerto Rican/Hispanic Institute for the Elderly, the Latino Commission on AIDS, and National Hispanic Leadership Agenda.

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FULTON TRACKS, Clinton Hill

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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent I had great pleasure in doing two entries concerning trolley tracks that were breaking through many levels of asphalt that made them seemingly disappear from NYC’s streets.   You can find them by looking for TROLLEY TRACES and MORE TROLLEY TRACKS.  I was sitting in my car recently  on the north side of Fulton Street, [...]

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WENDY’S, Mount Eden

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It’s a fact of life… we all have to go sometimes. New York City is short on public bathrooms. You wind up going in a bar, gas station, department store, and find the pissoir that they offer because they are legally required to do so. It wasn’t like that decades ago — NYC built some [...]

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UNEEDA BISCUIT, downtown Brooklyn

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A Uneeda Biscuit ad from the 1910s can still be seen faintly on a Bridge Plaza Street building in downtown Brooklyn. The National Biscuit Company was formed in 1898 by a merger of the midwest American Bakeries and the eastern New York Biscuit Company, while these companies, in turn, had been formed by mergers of [...]

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MINERVA PLACE, New Brighton

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Parts of New Brighton, Staten Island contain some of the handsomest streets, house for house, in New York City. Other parts are utterly forlorn and downright forbidding in spots. Guess which I’m highlighting today. The New Brighton waterfront is lined with warehouses and abandoned factories that used to produce such products as gypsum, a material [...]

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WYCKOFF AVENUE 2016, Bushwick-Ridgewood, Part 2

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Continued from Part 1 I walked Wyckoff Avenue, which is on the Brooklyn-Queens line for most of its route, back in 2008 (we now speak of Forgotten New York as spanning decades) and I hate to generalize but back then, it was just beginning to feel the effects of “gentrification” however you wish to define [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #104: NEW BRIGHTON, Staten Island

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Special meeting time 10:30AM in front of South Ferry entrance in Manhattan. We will take the 11AM boat and then take a bus to Hamilton Park, one of Staten Island’s most concentrated enclaves of beautiful homes including Queen Annes, Victorians and 19th-Century developments in secret enclaves, then follow up with a beer at Liedy’s Tavern, the [...]

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SEELEY, FEEL ME, Windsor Terrace

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The Seeley Street Bridge  is one of NYC’s “secret” bridges, in that it doesn’t show up on maps; I’ve only found a couple more like this, such as the cast-iron Eagle Avenue Bridge that spans East 161st Street in the Bronx, or the bigger Grand Concourse bridge over East 173rd Street. The bridge spans Prospect [...]

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TYPE G BRACKET Kips Bay

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With the Light Emitting Diode Revolution in full flower across town, a lamppost-loving webmaster wonders whether these Type G wall bracket beauties, of which a few dozen remain around town (most in Manhattan) will be able to make the transition to the bright whites. This one can be found at the unlikely corner of East [...]

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SCHOVERLING HOUSE New Brighton/Fort Hill

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You have to like a guy with a name like August Schoverling. They don’t give out names like that any more. And you also have to love that Schoverling, a German immigrant arms merchant, married a woman named Augusta. It’s like falling in love with yourself! 344 Westervelt was completed in 1882 in Second Empire style [...]

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PATH 33rd STREET PLATFORM

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I took the Port Authority Trans-Hudson subway (PATH Train) every day for a job in Hoboken in early 2016 and, while many PATH stations still boast the vaulted ceilings they originally sported in 1908 when the subway to Hoboken, Jersey City, Harrison, Newark, Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Midtown was built, the 33rd Street terminal in [...]

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CORVINGTONS FOR THE CONK

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I’ll translate. A good decade after they first appeared on other wide thoroughfares like West Street (Joe DiMaggio Highway) and Jericho Turnpike in eastern Queens, the Grand Concourse, which roars from Mott Haven to Van Cortlandt Park, is finally getting a set of Twin Type 24M lampposts, which former NYC lamp maven Jeff Saltzman dubbed [...]

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WYCKOFF AVENUE 2016, Bushwick-Ridgewood, Part 1

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I keep hearing that the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. I think the current Forgotten Feature will disprove the notion, though. I walked Wyckoff avenue, which is on the Brooklyn-Queens line for most of its route, back in 2008 (we now speak of Forgotten [...]

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SAM FLAX 2014, Midtown

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When I worked at Photo-Lettering, NYC’s biggest typesetting shop in the 1980s as a proofreader, we dealt with proofs on all sorts of surfaces, from shiny Agfa paper to see-through glassines. We could compare original proofs to newer proofs on these acetates to see if there were any mistakes (I got spoiled by this, as [...]

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FORGOTTENTOUR #103: Prospect Cemetery, King Manor, Jamaica

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Saturday, April 23. Prospect Cemetery/King Manor, Queens.   Meet at 12 noon at the SW corner of Jamaica Avenue and Parsons Boulevard in front of the Addabbo Building (shown above, directly across from Wendy’s) at the end of the E and J trains. Visit Queens’ oldest cemetery with curator and President of the Prospect Cemetery Association [...]

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TUDOR GOTHIC, Parkville

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I have always been a fan of this formidable Tudor Gothic edifice on Parkville Avenue, St. Rose of Lima Church, the seat of one of mid-Brooklyn’s oldest parishes. It was founded in Parkville in 1870 when this was a small town called Greenfield (there is a neighborhood known to some as South Greenfield a few [...]

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HUDSON & MANHATTAN RAILROAD, Union Square area

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The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad is unfamiliar to most modern-day commuters, but transit buffs recognize it as the present-day PATH train, an acronym for the Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad — which, after its original run in 1908, remains the only subway between Manhattan and New Jersey, traveling along various branches to Hoboken, Jersey City and [...]

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EAMES PLACE, Kingsbridge Heights

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Tucked between the Bronx Community College campus, where the Hall of Fame of Great Americans is located, and the Jerome Park Reservoir is a little network of streets that seems to be on the borderline between Kingsbridge Heights and Bedford Park. Since one of the area’s big landmarks is the massive Kingsbridge Armory, I’ll assign it [...]

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HAIR CARE, Kingsbridge Heights

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While staggering aimlessly on West Kingsbridge Road one afternoon in October 2011, delirious from unseasonable heat, I encountered this redundant yet evocative half-handpainted sign just east of University Avenue. More recent Google Street Views have proved that the sign on the bottom, set in a Cooper knockoff font, ultimately won out but also showed the [...]

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LAMP ON THE BORDERLINE

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By HOWARD FEIN Special to Forgotten New York A NYC lamppost ‘wearing’ a Yonkers light fixture on the northeast corner of what appears to be a simple crossroads of four different street names due to the NYC-Yonkers border crossing it diagonally. The north approach is Bronx River Road; the south Webster Avenue; the east Nereid [...]

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LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD, Kingsbridge Heights

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“Could,” as in survive. One of my perennial FNY favorites: this lilliputian amid two massive 7-story apartment towers on Webb Avenue between Reservoir Avenue and West 197th in Kingsbridge Heights. Undoubtedly, at one time this 2-story dwelling with an attic dormer had partners here on the east side of the street, but they were all [...]

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PORT MORRIS TO UPPER EAST SIDE via Randalls Island, Part Two

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Continued from Part One During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand spanking new pedestrian and bicycle connection between Port Morris, Bronx over the narrow but significant Bronx Kill into Randalls Island, a [...]

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BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Brooklyn Heights

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One of my favorite buildings in Brooklyn Heights and one I’m not in often enough is the Brooklyn Historical Society, né Long Island Historical Society, Clinton and Pierrepont Streets [1878, George Post]. It stands on the approximate location of a British fort during the US Revolution. Just after graduating from SFC, I had an idea about [...]

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FORMER CANNON STREET LAMP

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Cannon Street, now just an echo of its former self, exists as an alley between Delancey and Broome west of Lewis Street. It has survived because it faces a public school that was not razed in ‘slum clearances’ that began in the 1930s. This week, while bright white, soulless Light Emitting Diode lamps take over eastern [...]

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NEMA on Wooster, SoHo

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Here’a an unusual Type G wall-mounted shaft at 41 Wooster Street north of Grand. It’s the only NEMA luminaire in public use, though I’m not sure if the Department of Transportation services it. When I shot it a few years ago it had a day burning Mercury vapor bulb and when the Google Street View [...]

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CHAMBERS CLOCK

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I’d say there are still  a few dozen of these clocks still in use in the subways, especially on the BMT and IND where countdown clocks have not been installed (and won’t be for quite a few years). I wish I had a better view of the clockface so I could see if the manufacturer’s [...]

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PORT MORRIS TO UPPER EAST SIDE via Randalls Island, Part One

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During the waning light of November 2015, we had a spectacular midweek day — it could have been the day after Thanksgiving — and word had come about a brand spanking new pedestrian and bicycle connection between Port Morris, Bronx over the narrow but significant Bronx Kill into Randalls Island, a considerable expanse in the [...]

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LOWRY TRIANGLE, Bedford-Stuyvesant

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A small traffic triangle is formed on the border of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Clinton Hill by long-ago cvil engineers’ insistence on letting Washington Avenue go its own way. South of Atlantic Avenue in Clinton Hill and western Bedford-Stuyvesant, north-south avenues take a decided southwest angle. Not so Washington Avenue, which keeps true to its north-south orientation [...]

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BARTUNEK HARDWARE, Astoria

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Who knows how long Bartunek Hardware has been on 23rd Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets in Astoria? A long time, judging by this plastic-lettered sign. As New Jersey DJ Don Tandler (The Record Handler) says, they don’t make them like this anymore and they don’t even try! At first glance, it’s white and red, [...]

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