It was developed during WWII at Quonset Point, in a naval construction area near Kings Point, Rhode Island it’s a variant of the Nissen Hut first used during World War I. The Quonset hut by definition is a lightweight structure made of corrugated steel built with a semicircular cross section. is a pair of metal Quonset huts, one housing the New Yorker Cheese Company, and the other, one of the area’s myriad auto repair shops. Hugh who? The former Stranglers singer, that’s Hugh. The days of Sam Goody and Tower Records are gone but here, on the outskirts of the outskirts at #599 Johnson between Gardner and Scott, is the Brooklyn Record Exchange and the selection looked interesting. I still have hundreds of vinyl recordings and a turntable to spin them on but I haven’t done so in years, what with my hundreds of thousands of MP3s I’ve collected on various drives. As late as 1998, there were several Evergreen trackways remaining as well as a few RR crossing crossbuck signs. Originally a passenger line, it survived as a freight conduit until the 1980s. These nearly embedded tracks behind a chain link fence at Varick and Johnson Aves., as well as a few fenced-off rights-of-way, are all that remain of the Long Island Rail Road’s Evergreen Branch, which at its longest in the 1880s ran from the waterfront in Greenpoint to a connection with the LIRR Bay Ridge Line several miles to the southeast. Some historians believe the rock in the back yard of the Onderdonk House on Flushing and Onderdonk Aves/, seat of the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society, is the real rock. north of Jefferson Ave., according to Greater Astoria Historical Society director Bob Singleton, is more of a candidate as the famed colonial-era “Arbitration Rock ” placed at the border of Kings and Queens County than the one that’s generally accepted to be the actual rock. In the recent past the building has been used as a ginger ale bottling plant and currently hosts a gymnasium as well as a food wholesaler. More recently, this building was where one of Williamsburg’s only remaining beer production plants and one of Brooklyn’s prime tourist attractions, the Brooklyn Brewery, was founded in 1988 before later moving operations to their present building on N. Huber passed away in 1890 and in the 1920s, the Huber family sold to Hittleman, who operated the brewery until 1951. Huber had purchased the Hoerger brewery in 1866. The building dates to about 1885 and was originally the Otto Huber brewery, one of Brooklyn’s largest, which at its peak turned out 10,000 bottles of beer per day. The Hittleman Brewing complex is still more or less intact along Meserole St. Here, we can see the brick tower belonging to the Hittleman Brewery. between Meserole and Boerum Sts., is an orphaned band in the road that, in the post-colonial era, became Bushwick Ave. Brooklyn is coterminous with Kings County, established in the 1670s formerly, Kings County consisted of six separate towns that eventually coalesced into the City of Brooklyn before it joined NYC in 1898.īushwick Pl., just east of Bushwick Ave. The first of a number of concrete plants I encountered on this trip was Kings Ready Mix, on Johnson Ave. Knowing perhaps that the BMT-IRT mosaic tile sign plaques were going to be a part of the new IRT, designer/architect Squire Vickers went “all out” and expanded the palate from the earth tones favored on previous BMT/IRT stations and the Canarsie Line got riotous color, with robin’s egg blue and pink added to the palette. in Manhattan and East New York in stages between 19 and was the last lengthy BMT line to see any major construction in fact the new IND was already under construction in 1928. The L, or the Canarsie BMT as it was known, was built between 14th St. I enjoy taking the L train out to this realm, as its station mosaics are among the best found anywhere. Culturally this area seems to be what the western region of Williamsburg was in the 1990s, a recently industrial area now populated by students and artists today, Williamsburg proper has turned into a ritzy region as a 2005 zoning change allowed large luxury towers to be built along the waterfront. Many of these loft buildings are now populated by residents, so the area retains a fascinating mix of industrial and residential. The region should have its own moniker, but within these bounds only a few streets such as Grattan have any longstanding residences, with the rest of the buildings given over to manufacturing and warehousing in the old days and so it never really required a name. on the north and south, in the area known as East Williamsburg. on the east and west and Johnson and Flushing Aves. I walked around a tight enclave of streets located between Bushwick and Varick Aves.
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