Visit Queens in the years 1920 to 1950!
Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City in March 2015!
Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society
800 sq ft. $2,200/month office - avail now!
Not like those office shares...this is a real professional space!
Freshly painted, carpeted, new restrooms, professional/non-profit floor,
most convenient location in western Queens, shopping and restaurants across street,
includes shelving, office furniture and desk, carpet, and air conditioner.
Elevator -- Four blocks from N, R, Q, M service. 15 minutes from mid-town. 2 blocks from Kaufman Arts Center. email info@astorialic.org or call 718-278-0700.
Now in its tenth year, Forgotten New York The Book is your bible to a New York City the other guidebooks won't touch.
“Few men in all history … have ever been made to suffer so bitterly and so inexpressibly as I because of the assertion of my achievement.” Was Dr. Frederick A. Cook the first American to climb Alaska’s Mount McKinley and the first explorer to reach the North Pole? Or, was he, as some detractors assert, a fake and […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Bushwick
And now we come to one of the true hidden marvels of New York City, an ‘enchanted village’ a vision of one man’s mind. It’s located in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the borough’s northernmost neighborhood, a thriving Polish/Latino enclave and home to some of Brooklyn’s most fascinating architecture and baffling relics. PERSONAL NOTE: Your webmaster had an apartment in Greenpoint […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Greenpoint
New York City used to be an el town. Beginning in the 1870s on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, dozens of elevated lines rose and swift travel over traffic-clogged streets became a reality. Whole neighborhoods came into being as former farmland was converted for business and residential purposes at the coming of elevated trains. But in […]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Queens
These ain’t your usual pigeons perched in a tree on Campus Road near Brooklyn College. College visitors, treated to a flash of green and a squawk, scratch their hreads in bewilderment for a minute, then cast their eyes skyward…. …and find flocks of wild parrots numbering in the thousands. The story goes that parrots have […]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Flatbush
Back in June 1999, I entered the grounds of the old Flushing Airport, and got as far as the mud, the ticks, the mosquitoes, and the head-high weeds and reeds would allow, and scraped the merest surface of what still lurks in the abandoned facility. Now, Forgotten Fan Andy Hoffer has gone me one better […]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: College Point Queens