[Image courtesy of Forgotten NY]

Forgotten NY takes a trip to Sheepshead Bay this week and features a mural from 1994 that still offers glimpses of Sheepshead Bay’s past and presumed future. Here’s a bit of what Master New York Factologist Kevin Walsh has to say:

Sometimes, NYC history can be preserved in the unlikeliest of ways and in the most unusual places. Take a large mural along West 15th Street in the shadow of the BMT Brighton line (B, Q) just north of Sheepshead Bay Road. The mural, entitled “Sheepshead Bay’s Historic Future,” depicts Emmons Avenue as it was in 1994 and how the artist, Faith Palmer-Persen (probably with the camera in the mural), apparently predicted the ways it would evolve. The mural was sponsored by the Bay Improvement Group (I’d link to their site, but the pages pretty much display a telephone number to call).

Check out the whole post. It’s pretty darned cool.