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How Parking Your Car on the Street Became Legal in Brooklyn

July 6, 2016November 2, 2018 Henry  Culture, History, Subways and Streets  Arthur D. Constant, cars, garages, on-street parking, Ovington Avenue, Ovington Garages, parking  1 Comment

You used to have to put it in a garage, such as the ones that’re still on Ovington Avenue.

Bay Ridge park proposal

The Totally Forgotten Bay Ridge Park That Never Was

April 4, 2016December 27, 2017 Henry  Culture, History, Outdoors and Rec, Places  71st Street, Benjamin D. Silliman, Cedar Lane, Holden's Field, Lovers' Lane, Ovington Avenue, Ovington Village, parks, Silliman Place

A pastoral field in rural Bay Ridge was the perfect spot for a park. But then the area got a little too popular.

The Bay Ridge Atheneum, on Ridge Boulevard between. Ovington and Bay Ridge avenues, ca. 1880.

Interview: Local Historian Matthew Scarpa on Old Bay Ridge

May 8, 2015May 7, 2015 Henry  Culture, History  Bay Ridge Atheneum, Bay Ridge Historical Society, Matthew Scarpa, Old Bay Ridge & Ovington Village, Ovington Avenue, Ovington Village

Bay Ridge used to be home to an artists’ colony. Betcha didn’t know that.

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