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17
Jul 2018

The Long-Forgotten History of Leif Ericson Park

The sprawling former parkway near the Bay Ridge northern border offers a microcosmic history of the community in the 20th century, from the Irish shantytown it replaced to the site…
ByHenry Stewart103Views107 minRead time
18
Sep 2017

How Shore Road Was Ruined

The full and tragic 100-year story of how Bay Ridge’s greatest natural wonder became full of cars, apartment buildings and a highway.
ByHenry Stewart88Views117 minRead time
22
Jun 2015

Bay Ridge’s Parks Were Once Envisioned as a Single Super Park

Before it was the name of 75th Street, “the Bay Ridge Parkway” was an ambitious vision for a network of greenspaces that would ring the neighborhood and unite the borough.
ByHenry Stewart52Views33 minRead time
13
May 2015

Demand Bike and Pedestrian Access to the Verrazano!

How a grassroots movement could reverse what Robert Moses wrought.
ByHey Ridge37Views4 minRead time
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