We’re going to Broadway today. We’re also going to Park Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Wall Street, Canal Street and several other well-known New York City locales. But since this website is called Forgotten NY, things aren’t always as obvious as they can appear. Get your Brooks Brothers suit on and bring your portfolio… Wall Street is [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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LITTLE BROTHERS: NYC’s familiar streets..or are they?
November 28, 2001Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn Fort Greene New Brighton Port Richmond St. George Stapleton Staten Island
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CHANGING OF THE GUARD: Documenting the beginning of the end of the ornate castirons in 1960.
November 18, 2001
ROLL CALL OF LUMINAIRES I’ll admit it. There’s a big hole in my information on NYC lamppost manufacturers and makes, since I’ve not a clue of these designs’ actual names, nor their manufacturers. These are the luminaires that were still lurking about NYC when I first began taking note of lampposts back when I was a [...]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: Brooklyn Eastern Parkway Fort Greene Queens Radial Wave Westinghouse
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YZNAGA SAGA Cuban sugar plantations & ancient colonial post roads.
November 17, 2001Yznaga Place Quite possibly the only place name in the United States that begins with “yz”. I’ve looked at USA and world atlases and can’t find anymore initial Yz’s. Yznaga Place, at the south end of Brush Avenue near the Whitestone Bridge and Ferry Point Park, is one of those streets you see on [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Tagged with: Bronx Pelham Bay Schuylerville Westchester Square
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NYC’S BEAUX ARTS PUBLIC BATHROOMS
November 11, 2001PHOTOS BY GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent It’s the most natural thing in the world. We all have to go sometime. NYC, though, would pretty much not acknowledge that fact. While various cities nationwide have installed high-tech, self-flushing toilets that do everything except wipe, it’s well, sorta beneath NYC to even flirt with the concept. To [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx Harlem Lower East Side Manhattan Morrisania Mount Eden Pelham Bay Upper West Side