Forgotten NY

6/30. Brooklyn's Furman Street runs along the East River waterfront for about 3/4 mile between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street, but in that long stretch intersects with only a couple of streets in between: Joralemon St. and tiny Doughty Street (three, if you count a dead-end stub of Montague). Brooklyn Heights is called thus because most of it overlooks the East River on a steep cliff; two parallel streets, Columbia Heights and Furman, are atop the cliff and at the bottom of it, respectively.

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FORGOTTEN NEW YORK, HarperCollins
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7/8. Reliable 5th Avenue signs from the 60s and 70s

7/3. St. George, Staten Island, looks like the city

6/18. Roslyn, NY's landmark

6/9. Phorgotten Phlags in Philadelphia

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7/7. A welcome visit to Richmondtown, Staten Island seemed like the right idea on July 4th, 2008. I'm drawn to this area at almost the geographic center of the island for a variety of reasons. It does not possess the look of NYC's other neighborhoods, with grid-patterned streets filled with detached homes, Fedders specials of rows of brownstones, but it also doesn't look like so much of what Staten Island is becoming: Mallville, USA. This was the third July 4th visit I've made, and about the 10th overall.

If it's summer in Coney Island there must be MERMAIDS

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Maspethians Helen Laurenti, Paul Ditta and FNY Correspondent Christina Wilkinson display a rendering of a plan to restore Maspeth's 160-year-old church. AMNY photo

The latest in the fight to save Maspeth's 160-year old church

THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY: the battle so far, by Christina

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