Photo Credit: C.P. Storm via Flickr
For months, multiple media outlets have run stories regarding illegally parked trucks on Bay Parkway near McDonald Avenue.
NY1, this site, the Home Reporter, Boro Park Scoop, and now CNG have not only brought attention to the trucks themselves, but also to the lack of consistent traffic enforcement in the area.
The CNG story quotes Washington Cemetery employees who say the trucks are disturbing funerals and causing its maintenance staff, who should be more concerned with the inside of the cemetery, to spend the bulk of their time picking up urine-filled bottles and discarded furniture outside of its gates.
This is how it normally goes – NY 1 will air a segment on the trucks, the police will come in to tow and ticket a few, and within a week or two most of the offenders will have returned. Continue Reading »
Photo Credit: C.P. Storm via Flickr
On the long stretch of Bay Parkway beginning just a couple of blocks west of Ocean Parkway, where Midwood, Borough Park and Bensonhurst converge at Washington Cemetery, the area takes on an almost bucolic quality. It’s often said that graveyards make the best neighbors for those seeking peace and quiet.
Unfortunately, the street has become a de facto overnight parking spot for tractor trailers, disturbing the quality of life with air pollution, noise, trucker bombs and, of course, the imposing presence of the trucks themselves. Continue Reading »
Here we have a photo similar to one taken earlier this year.
In this version, we’re looking northwest from the Midwood side of the Avenue N Station, which sits on the McDonald Avenue El, part of the Culver Line served by the F Train.
You can see Washington Cemetery, as well the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan peeking out from behind the hills of Greenwood Cemetery and Brooklyn Heights.
We always look forward to cooler, drier weather, along with the increased visibility and more majestic views that come with it.
(image: Alexis Madrigal for the Atlantic)
According to an article posted today on the Atlantic’s website, a local cemetery is showcasing the latest in memorial-engraving technology.
Sitting under the Bay Parkway station of the F Train, Washington Cemetery sits on the borders of three neighborhoods- Borough Park, Midwood and Bensonhurst.
It’s a Jewish cemetery popular with Brooklyn’s former Soviet Union immigrant community.
The article’s author, while there with his fiancée to visit her deceased Great Grandmother, observed something many of you might have also noticed if you’ve passed by Washington’s cast iron fence in the last few years- laser-etched likenesses of the departed. Lots and lots of them. Click here to read more and see an example
photo credit: Grace O'Malley
This week we have a great photo taken on the McDonald Avenue El. It was shot from the west, Bensonhurst, side of the Avenue N Station of the F Train, near Avenue M. The view is northeast, over a very bucolic looking Washington Cemetery and Midwood. The Empire State Building can be seen in the background.
Can you guess the year this photo was taken?
Continue reading for the answer. Continue Reading »
