UNION AVENUE, Williamsburg, Greenpoint
Forgotten New York - During the same foray that produced the Eckford Street photos in April 2011, I was really there for a quick trip the length of Union Avenue. The avenue runs from the junction of...
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Forgotten New York - The NYC Salvage Warehouse on Berry Street north of the Williamsburg Bridge in Brooklyn auctioned off its treasure trove of New York City artifacts to a single bidder in July, and...
View ArticleBERRY STREET, WILLIAMSBURG
Forgotten New York - In early 2010, just as spring was beginning to spring, I ambled slowly and haltingly north on Berry Street, the only one of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s major ‘north-south’ (in...
View ArticleMETROPOLITAN PIG
Forgotten New York - Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1816 as a toll road and was known as the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike...
View ArticleSPOOK HOUSE OF WILLIAMSBURG
Forgotten New York - Periodically, I make a hajj over to 539 Driggs Avenue, not far from the buzzing hive of downtown Williamsburg. I just want to see if what I have termed the ‘spook house of...
View ArticleSTREETS OF WILLIAMSBURGH
Forgotten New York - Long before Queens officials thought of doing it, the city of Williamsburgh laid out streets that were all numbered, with the odd rare named street here and there. North-south...
View ArticleGOYA, O BOYA
Forgotten New York - Someone on Wythe Avenue in the north Willie paid tribute to Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746-1828) with this rendering of his Portrait of Don Manuel Osorio de Manrique Zuniga....
View ArticleMETROPOLITAN COMIC BOOKLETS
Forgotten New York - Desert Island Comic Books, 540 Metropolitan Avenue near Union Avenue in Brooklyn, has participated in a recent trend (that I welcome): maintaining an older classic awning sign of a...
View ArticleGRAND STREET SIGNS
Forgotten New York - Grand Street is a long road with two distinct sections. The western end of the street in Brooklyn runs east-west through the heart of Williamsburg all the way to the East River,...
View ArticleGRAND FERRY PARK, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - Tucked away at the west end of Grand Street where it meets the East River and punctuated by a tall smokestack you’ll find a small oasis that indirectly remembers the founder of...
View ArticleBROADWAY LAMP, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - From the collection of Bob Mulero, the King of NYC Lampposts, comes this view of a possibly one-of-a-kind lamp that used to stand at the Brooklyn-bound exit ramp of the...
View ArticleSCHAEFER BREWERY, Kent Avenue, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - One of the few reminders of the old Schaefer Brewery on Kent Avenue and South 8th Street in the Willieburg is this sculpture of a raised glass and hops plants on the former brewery...
View ArticleBEDFORD R.I.P., Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - I’ve been doing a very gradual survey of Bedford Avenue over the years in FNY, and have already completed two installments of the series, from Sheepshead Bay all the way to...
View ArticleWINSTON AD, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - Winston cigarettes were introduced by R.J. Reynolds in 1954 and at times, the brand has been the best-selling cigarette in the USA. Before 1971, when cigarette ads were banned on...
View Article(FORMER) WYTHE DINER, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - The old Wythe Diner, Wythe Avenue and North 3rd in the Willieburg, still outwardly showing every bit of its 1952 Mountain View Diner Company exterior, has been operated under many...
View ArticleOLD DUTCH MUSTARD BUILDING, (formerly) Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - Here’s one I miss: the Old Dutch Mustard factory on Metropolitan and Wythe Avenues in Williamsburg. It succumbed to “urban renewal” in 2006. When I first began collecting...
View ArticleDOWNER’S PHARMACY, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - I got this photo at the Dawn of Forgotten NY in the winer of 1998 at Bedford Avenue and North 4th, when Williamsburg was still an industrial/ethnic Eastern European stronghold, not...
View ArticleLINDSAY TRIANGLE, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - While traversing the wilds of Williamsburg on New Year’s Day, 2014, I stumbled on a forlorn, windswept concrete traffic triangle that is likely little frequented by even area...
View ArticleSHOE FACTORY, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - Amazingly this faded sign on Hewes Street between Broadway and South 5th Streets is pretty much unchanged since I first surveyed it in 1999. Apparently it’s a palimpsest, or one...
View ArticleHAVEMEYER PARK, Williamsburg
Forgotten New York - Havemeyer Park was recently [2012] hewn out of what was formerly an empty lot and before that, a series of warehouses connected by a waterside railroad along Kent Avenue between...
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