Your webmaster knows full well he will be ridiculed, pilloried and threatened with everything from lawsuits to bodily harm for including Hoboken on a Forgotten NY site. New Jersey, the Sixth Borough, has a large and mostly unspoken Forgotten history, and for the most part, we’ll leave it to the two Marks of Weird NJ to cover the [...]
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
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MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER: HOBOKEN, NJ
September 20, 2003Categorized in: Out of Town Street Scenes Tagged with: Hoboken New Jersey
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HISTORY COLLECTOR. Attorney Lawrence Rogak’s eclectic collection of NYC signage.
September 14, 2003
Insurance attorney Lawrence Rogak of Oceanside, Long Island, has been collecting old signs and NYC arcana for many years. Recently, he invited your webmaster to his law office for a tour of the collection. MTA roll signs are mounted throughout the office. They are from the 1967-1978 period when color coding was first used in [...]
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STATEN ISLAND’S STREAMS
September 13, 2003In an otherwise undistinguished bend of Richmond Terrace between the old towns of West New Brighton and Port Richmond, a bridge carries the old Terrace (formerly part of the post road to Philadelphia and originally laid out in 1705) over a narrow creek with just a rusty fence protecting pedestrians from accidentally falling in. The [...]
Categorized in: You'd Never Believe You're in NYC Tagged with: Arden Heights Staten Island Westerleigh