While lamenting the fact that Queens only had six blocks represented in TONY’s Top 50 list last year, Forgotten NY grudgingly makes a visit to Ole Numero Uno, Fort Greene’s South Portland Avenue. FNY notes that, although the brownstones between Dekalb and Lafayette appear identical at first glance, you can tell that they were built in different sections at different times. (Anyone know more about that history?) FNY also notes that, according to Brooklyn By Name, the street was named after Portland Place in London. And the reason for all the North and South street names in Fort Greene? The creation of Fort Greene Park, which cuts a number of them in two.
Brownstone Paradise? [Forgotten NY]