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Brooklyn used to have them many many many years ago. Take a drive on Foster Ave starting at Coney Island Ave driving towards Ocean Ave. You will see the old brick pillars still standing on some of the corners.
were those actually gated? I thought the pillars were decorative.
This is a surprise to me, but maybe thats due to my Manhattan provincialism. Like others here, I think of doorman buildings as "gated".
But can you name some of the traditional type gated communities in the city? Where are they? Just curious.
Actually, there are even a few in Manhattan that I think qualify, namely Milligan Place and Grove Court. There's also another little cul-de-sac off of Greenwich Street.
Actually, there are even a few in Manhattan that I think qualify, namely Milligan Place and Grove Court. There's also another little cul-de-sac off of Greenwich Street.
Patchin Place also, yes, I forgot about those.
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Nope. They were gateposts. Here's one from Church Ave.
Sorry, no they were never gated.
Do a google seach, "the realm of light and air", hopefully I remember that correctly. The book is about Flatbush, Brooklyn's Victorian origins. In it you wil find documented that there were never gates.
Actually,it is in NYC....most of it anyway.The address is 27240 Grand Central Parkway ,which is in Queens.It sits on 110 acres ,a small portion of which is on the Nassau County side in Lake Success.Part of the golf course is in Nassau County but the towers are all in Queens.It was built as and advertises itself as a gated community.North Shore Towers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I stand fully corrected.
I always think of it as being in Lake Succes.
Anyway, I'd say that its one of, perhaps the only, gated community offering the usual amenities found in the nouveau communities of the south and west.
Just throwing up a gate and nothing else is more like camouflage. The gate s/b indicated of a level of security, exclusivity and amenity. Many of the suggested communities don't meet this criteria, which I'm certain was in the mind of the OP.
@portrichmonder
From what I can see on my phone, EXACTLY like that.
The "gateway" to Midwood is here at Avenue J and Ocean Parkway. As a rule, 'gateposts' like this signify an originally private development, and while the ones north of here are readily identifiable (Ditmas Park, Prospect Park South, Fiske Terrace, etc) whatever the development here was has been lost to posterity.
Here is a picture of similar 'entrance columns' from the book,
Flatbush of Today, the realm of light and air
The picture was taken in and around the time the developments were built. These particular columns no longer exists, but all were similar and marked the different developments/neighborhoods of (Victorian) Flatbush.
I think they were put up as gateposts but the iron necessary to complete them went to WW1 war effort.
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