THE ALLEYS OF CANARSIE. Southeast Brooklyn’s forgotten roads
Forgotten New York - above: Skidmore Lane at East 92nd Street Canarsie, a neighborhood in southeast Brooklyn at the end of the BMT L line, for many decades of its history had been derided as a...
View ArticleCANARSIE’S BACKYARD TROLLEY
Forgotten New York - Visible remnants can still be found from a trolley line in Canarsie, Brooklyn, at which trolleys last clanged and rumbled way back in 1942. There’s a catch though–this was no...
View ArticleTHROWIN’ EM A CURVE. Lamppost designs at the dawn of the modern era.
Forgotten New York - It’s 1950 and on Third Avenue, the el trains rumbling overhead, like the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs of the Cretaceous, are blissfully unmindful of their upcoming doom. The...
View ArticleBELIEVE IT! NY’s craziest lampposts
Forgotten New York - IT’S ALWAYS FUN when it’s time to do a lamppost page in Forgotten NY, because these vaguely anthropomorphic untility poles are what got me started with this Forgotten NY stuff...
View ArticleCANARSIE, Brooklyn Part 1
Forgotten New York - I know that some cynics might think that I’m being facetious with that title card, but Canarsie and your webmaster are old pals. I was a frequent visitor to this southeastern...
View ArticleCANARSIE, Brooklyn part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 Though its exterior has been renovated in recent years, heavy on the aluminum siding, Grace Church (now known as Church At The Rock) on East 92nd Street just...
View ArticleWheelies: A Look at the Last Few Wrought Iron “Wheel Motif” Stoplights in NYC
Forgotten New York - While walking uptown during Summer Streets 2010 I passed by two of New York City’s most picturesque relics at Park Avenue and East 46th, at the tunnel that takes the Park Avenue...
View ArticleLAMP BONANZA! More from the Bob Mulero archives
Forgotten New York - Time to delve once more into the Bob Mulero collection of lampposts. Bob and I achieved our separate lamppost obsessions separately: while both us have been enthusiastically noting...
View ArticleNOLAN’S LANE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - While careening through Canarsie this past week, searching for lost alleys, I checked Nolan’s Lane, which I hadn’t visited since 1999. For most, unless you live there, there’s no...
View ArticleCANARSIE TO FLATBUSH
Forgotten New York - I’m quite familiar with Canarsie and Flatlands — these neighborhoods in southeast Brooklyn were quite accessible to the Bay Ridge boy just by bicycling east a few miles, which I...
View ArticleCHARLES VANDERVEER HOUSE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - Here’s an item that’s been under my nose for decades and I never realized its presence. Charles Vanderveer, a scion of one of Brooklyn’s larger landholding families, constructed...
View ArticleBRACKET CREEP, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - Getting a bit more into the weeds than most readers want, so be patient with me here — here’s a couple of gems that are disappearing from the NYC scene. These photos, snapped by...
View ArticleEAST 105th STREET STATION, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - The East 105th Street station on the Canarsie BMT (the L train) is in a somewhat odd place for a subway stop — a dead end street with empty lots on one side and a Verizon...
View ArticleTHE ROAD TO LOTT’S HOUSE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - Pictured here is a small piece of dead-end road emanating from East 83rd Street south of Avenue J. The road once ran continuously from East 83rd northeast to Grace Church at East...
View ArticleHOLMES LANE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - Holmes Lane and East 95th Street south of Avenue K I haven’t been down to Canarsie, a neighborhood in southeast Brooklyn where a number of its original roads survive in the form of...
View ArticleNEW AND OLD TECHNOLOGY, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - 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...
View ArticleTROLLEY POLE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - This massive, rusty pole with a pair of crossbars at the top has been in place on Glenwood Road near Rockaway Parkway for almost a hundred years, and pure inertia keeps it there. I...
View ArticleSAVAGE LANE, Canarsie, 1999
Forgotten New York - In 1999 I investigated and photographed a Canarsie dead end called Savage Lane, which I have found on only one map: the Colorprint NYC atlas produced by the American Map Co. This...
View ArticleBEDELL LANE, Canarsie
Forgotten New York - Bedell Lane is a quiet side street in Canarsie, running from west to east from East 87th to East 92nd Streets, just south of Foster Avenue. I’ve been aware of its presence for...
View ArticleCANARSIE CROOK
Forgotten New York - At Ralph Avenue and Flatlands at the west end of Canrsie, near the old Canarsie High School, there’s a handsome brick building with arched windows, with entablature proclaiming it...
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