Forgotten NY

5/5. The Tin Woodsman of Woodside

4/28. With a turnout that rivalled FNY's most-attended tour, Brooklyn Between the Bridges in October 2003, over 50 ForgottenFans turned out on an overcast day with drizzle expected (after an extraordinary run of good weather for early ForgottenTours, clouds and rain have become an inevitability the last couple of years).

Since Forgotten New York got started in 1999 we've seen the Bowery shed most of its skid-row atmosphere, jettison CBGB, and even raze the last of its remnants of its 19th-Century groggery era (goodbye McGurk's Suicide Hall). We've seen Williamsburg in constant transformation, from a sparsely populated mostly industrial-warehouse district to a hipster hangout to a high-rise haven in the big-money Bloomberg era. We've seen landmarks and should-be landmarks torn down...

4/2. O and P Street trolley tracks in Georgetown, DC

4/16. Dixon Mills, pencil factory gone upscale

5/7. Last remnant of a Lord

5/5. West Broadway runs from Vesey Street north to West Houston, where it becomes LaGuardia Place for a few blocks before ending at Washington Square Park. It once plunged into the park to connect with 5th Avenue (and some of West Broadway was renamed South 5th for a while) but the connection was severed in the mid-20th Century; Robert Moses was always proposing a revival of that link, but it was finally defeated in 1969. While the construction of the World Trade Center from 1968-1974 eliminated many streets and parts of others, West Broadway always began at Vesey and Greenwich Streets, and so none of it was ever de-mapped....

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