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Bay Ridge Crack Houses Go Corcoran

The beautiful new townhouses that were built upon the site of the former Bay Ridge Crack House have officially jumped the shark and gone up for sale at Corcoran. 

The three townhouses have been rebranded as lofts, particularly the Lofts of Bay Ridge, and are listed at $799,000 starting.  If they don’t sell out by Thanksgiving, we imagine that Corcoran will official rebrand all of Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton as Southern Park Slope South.

Total sidenote here, someone should inform Corcoran and the developer that the now defunct Bay Ridge  restaurant The Loft is where a man was found shot to death in a bathroom.  So the whole Loft/Bay Ridge thing might not be the best choice of words, aside from the fact that the buildings are semi-attached row houses. 

Oh, and to any potential buyers, the brothers who used to deal drugs out of that house, and their clientele of misfit junkies, still roam around on that block.  We’ve seen them personally, and don’t have the time or desire to constantly post photos of each time a car has broken windows on that block – good thing those “Lofts” come with a garage!

Subway History Painted Over

It has happened once again.  Something that we took for granted is now gone.  This time in the form of the decades old painted ad that adorned the entrance to the R train at 95th Street.   

[Above image via: Bay Ridge Journal]

It was there for as long as we can remember, and we enjoyed assuming that it was the same ad that our grandfather used to see in the 1930s as he entered that station.

A frozen crevice now adorns the location, and we don’t think that anyone knows why…

Simon Cortelyou’s Grave

Despite an almost entire lack of history related posts on this site, we have a touch of the history geek gene in us that shines in every now and then.  (For instance, the Peter Stuyvesant gravesite post.)

Anyway, we stepped foot into the old Barkuloo Family Cemetery, which is also known as the Revolutionary War Cemetery, for the first time recently — it’s always been locked, but we found it to be oddly unlocked, allowing for us to enter.  To our shock, we found the grave of a man whom we’ve read about, Simon Cortelyou.

Our soul did a little dance around us due to the excitement while we stood still to respect the grave.

If you’re from Brooklyn, you know the family name thanks to a subway stop being named Cortelyou, but either way, if you’d like an intriguing read about one of America’s oldest European families, by all means, take a read.

P.S. 264 Topped Off

P.S. 264 topped off in Brooklyn.  Though, due to the lack of wind, the flag is barely visible, but it is there, jutting out into the sky to proudly announce, not one inch higher.

Also of note, they covered up the thick metal panels that surround the construction site with ply wood and we’re not sure why.  We can only ponder that someone complained to the right ear about the aesthetics of the metal panels, or a someone leaned up against the metal on a 100 degree day.

Hookah Bar Can’t Spell Hookah

There are several signs of questionable spelling all over Bay Ridge — we’re talking about you, galon of milk, laundermat and Shady’s House Wear & Kitchen Wear — but this one seems to take the cake.

We’ve walked past this sign over 100 times and it never caught our eye, but Fiancee thankfully spotted it for us — Cranberrys Hoockah, the hookah bar.


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