In a sense Forgotten New York always goes back to lampposts. When your webmaster was six I noticed the wholesale replacement of old styles by new ones in Bay Ridge…
May 2007
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Atlantic Avenue runs from the Brooklyn waterfront at the East River to the Van Wyck Expressway in Jamaica, Queens; along the way it separates several neighborhoods and comprises many architectural…
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A misbegotten, misspent, wasted youth. Your webmaster, after getting out of school, worked nights in the 1980s. I would hit the hay after getting home, but that would leave me a…
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Your webmaster admits to not traveling that often. I don’t have the money, and I don’t know the languages. I’ve never left the Northern Hemisphere, and am unlikely to in…
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Eons ago, in Forgotten NY terms, that is (OK, maybe 5 years ago) I was sent a cache of color photos of vanished NY scenes. In France, so we hear, they…
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Your webmaster has to admit, I’d never been to Schrafft’s, Chock Full O’Nuts, or the Automat. As a matter of fact, I can only recall being in a McDonald’s before age…