After I wrote about about the amusingly named Lois Lane in Staten Island, reader Brian K. wrote to me about another great one… “Tennis Court,” in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Get it? Tennis Court? How are these slipping by??
I love traveling down Flatbush Ave past Prospect Park because there’s so much history to find hidden on every block. I noticed this Oldsmobile ghost sign (ghost sign: a business sign remaining from a long defunct business) at the corner of Avenue D and Flatbush above a liquor store: God knows how long ago this…