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Forgotten New York is in Association with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, a non-profit organization supported by the Long Island City community.
Sunday, June 2, Riverside Park, Manhattan. 12 noon. Meet: Giuseppe Verdi statue, Verdi Square, Broadway and 72nd Street (#1,2,3 train) Join Forgotten NY‘s Kevin Walsh and GAHS’ Rich Melnick in exploring Riverside Drive and Park on Manhattan‘s Upper West Side from 72nd to 125th Streets. Several historic personages are remembered here, and we will view [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: Manhattan Manhattanville Upper West Side
All good things come to an end and ForgottenTour #66 in Tottenville marked the end of a good-luck weather streak that had lasted the latter part of 2011 and all of 2012, as downpours of varying intensity marked the day’s events. The crowd was kept down by the rain as well. We’ll have to invest [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: Staten Island Tottenville
Though standard Philadelphia street signs are green on white, 4-sided and trapezoidal with room at the top of the sign for the cross street, Philly has never been as fanatical about eradicating older signs as the New York City Department of Transportation has been over the years, and there are plenty of examples of older [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Out of Town Signs Tagged with: Philadelphia
I should really do more on Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn. It runs continuously from Flatbush Avenue at Prospect Park all the way south to Sheepshead Bay, standing in for East 20th Street. When I lived in Brooklyn I never rode a bike on the avenue because, dominated almost completely by apartment buildings, it seemed boring [...]
Long Island University has a campaign (in 2013) called “Find Out How Good You Really Are.” When I went to college, I found out I wasn’t all that good. I persevered and finally got a diploma. Maybe I should have gone to City College — just the architecture alone might have been better inspiration. In [...]
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Manhattan Manhattanville Morningside Heights
The station on the Brighton Line (Q train) on Gravesend Neck Road has been named simply Neck Road since its inception nearly 100 years ago. It’s one of the only cases in which the MTA succumbs to local colloquy, since I gather that neighborhood denizens shorten the name almost unanimously, though official street signs dutifully [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Gravesend
I’ve never been desperate enough to eat at Tad’s, and believe me, I’m no snob when it comes to fast food. To me, Tad’s has always been associated with the worst of Times Square sleeze, which I avoided like the yellow-livered coward I am through its worst (or at its peak, as some of my [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Signs Tagged with: Manhattan Midtown Penn Station
Always have a camera. Lesson learned at Broadway and West 147th in Hamilton Heights, where the old Bunny Theater has been forver stripped of its rabbits. The Bunny Theatre at Broadway and West 147th Street recollected early 20th Century comic actor and theatre impresario John Bunny (1863-1915). Bunny appeared in over 100 silents in a [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Hamilton Heights Manhattan
Even though I grew up mere blocks away from Dyker Beach Golf Course in Dyker Heights, I have never swung a golf club in my life. Who can afford golf clubs? And anyway, golf seems like a tremendously frustrating game if you’re not good at it — you have to chase a little white ball [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Roads Tagged with: Brooklyn Dyker Heights
