MARINE PARK MONSTER. Plesiosaur found in Marine Park
Forgotten New York - ALERT! The world scientific community will be forced to acknowledge the existence of a “living fossil” as a creature thought to be extinct for 80 million years recently appeared in...
View ArticleMARINE PARK and the Bennett-Wyckoff Homestead
Forgotten New York - I was heading to a birthday thing the other Saturday and found myself along Kings Highway, Brooklyn’s Mother Road, a colonial-era route built partially atop a Native American trail...
View ArticleROCK PALACE, Marine Park
Forgotten New York - Why am I showing a nondescript corner in Marine Park, Quentin Road at East 35th Street? The corner seems newly remodeled, with a day care center occupying the ground floor.…...
View ArticleAVENUE Q, Gravesend – Marine Park
Forgotten New York - There’s no Avenue Q in Brooklyn, and there’s no E or G, either; E became Foster Avenue and G became Glenwood Road long ago. The reasons for those switcheroos are… Forgotten New...
View ArticleSHEEPSHEAD BAY TO BERGEN BEACH, Part 2
Forgotten New York - Continued from Part 1 In the 1970s, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, and Bergen Beach had not become fully homogenized into the Brooklyn “beautiful mosaic” and were still rough around...
View ArticleGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN, Marine Park-Midwood
Forgotten New York - An unusual item turned up while I was attending a wake on Tuesday (April 16th). I disdain wakes, and I’ll have to make sure I don’t get one. I understand… Forgotten New York -
View ArticleMARINE PARK HOUSE NUMBER MAYHEM
Forgotten New York - I was stumbling around Marine Park on my way to a funeral parlor earlier this week when I noticed something definitely wonky about the house numbering. This is a neighborhood…...
View ArticleLOTT HOUSE, Marine Park
Forgotten New York - I had the occasion to delve into the wilderness of southern Brooklyn recently, into Midwood and Marine Park, a realm I used to invade frequently on bike rides from Bay… Forgotten...
View ArticleLOTT HOUSE, MARINE PARK
Forgotten New York - JOHANNES Lott built a small house on his Flatlands property about 1720 on land first settled by Dutchman Hugh Aerens as far back as 1636. In the 1700s, Gerritsen Creek… Forgotten...
View ArticleLOTTS LANE, MARINE PARK
Forgotten New York - I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in… Forgotten New York -
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