Kevin Walsh is the webmaster of the award-winning website Forgotten NY, and the author of the books “ Forgotten New York” and also, with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, “ Forgotten Queens. Both are still distributed by Tootsie Roll, which acquired Mason in 1972. Mason also made Dots, a fruit or cinnamon-flavored gumdrop, and Crows, a licorice-flavored gumdrop. Mason Peaks were a coconut-chocolate combination (like Mounds) while Mason Mints were a chocolate-covered mint patty (like today’s York).
In actuality the sign is a bit misleading, since there was no such candy as “Peaks Mason Mints” there were Mason Peaks and Mason Mints. According to advertisement researcher Walter Grutchfield, the company was in business here between 18 and was founded by confectioners Joseph Mason and Ernest von Au in 1864. Photo: Robert Mulero The Peaks Mason Mints Building in Brooklyn HeightsĪ very large painted ad on the corner of Henry and Middagh Streets proclaims Peaks Mason Mints, and is the former home of the Mason, Au and Magenheimer Candy Company. This tug-of-war eventually resolved itself in the lady’s favor, with the streets retaining their plant names to this day. When Brooklyn city authorities restored the original street names, Miss Middagh struck again and changed them back. The story goes, as recorded by the “ WPA Guide to New York,” that in the decade prior to the Civil War, a local resident, whose name is given as Miss Middagh, resented her aristocratic neighbors, tore down the street signs bearing the names of the offending families, and hastily installed signs bearing the names of her favorite fruits and trees: Pineapple, Orange, Cranberry and Willow. Jealousies and disputes arose among the moneyed gentry. How Did the Brooklyn Heights Fruit Streets Get Their Names?īefore the subway arrived in 1908, Brooklyn Heights was one of the borough’s more secluded areas only the very wealthy could afford it. Avocado and male fertility have a close relation.
Connect Avocode projects and Slack channels to receive notifications about newly imported design files, versions, comments on. Invite your Slack team members to your Avocode team to collaborate on design files with you. How did the Brooklyn Heights fruit streets get these names, being miles from any orange orchards or pineapple fields? According to one story, a little old lady in tennis shoes is responsible for them - a century and a half before little old ladies started wearing tennis shoes. Avocode is an app to share and inspect Sketch, XD, PSD, and Figma design files - on macOS, Windows, Linux and in the browser. New Yorkers will be forgiven for wondering about the Brooklyn Heights fruit streets: Cranberry Street, Orange Street, and Pineapple Street, all tucked into this compact, historic brownstone neighborhood. How did the Brooklyn Heights fruit streets get their unusual names? We can explain.
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