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There he stands at Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike opposite Kew Gardens Road, near Queens Borough Hall and the county courthouses… a strapping youth, a sword in his right hand held casually behind his neck, standing astride two writhing mermaids atop a four-sided fountain on a crumbling, pigeon-crap-strewn basin. It’s my favorite statue in town. [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Kew Gardens Queens
You might think San Francisco and Flushing have absolutely nothing in common, but they do share something. Way over in the extreme western end of Flushing, between College Point Boulevard, the Van Wyck Expressway, the Long Island Railroad and the Kissena Park Corridor, there’s a cluster of small streets unnoticed except by their residents and the people [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Out of Town Tagged with: Flushing Queens
If you haven’t been to Parkchester you’re in for a treat. Visiting the Bronx’ s premier apartment complex is an experience that will delight anyone with an interest in urban planning and a sharp eye for detail. Take the #6 train into the Bronx, exit at the Parkchester station and you will find yourself at Hugh Grant Circle, [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx Parkchester
Dahill Road runs in four separate sections in the heart of Brooklyn, in Kensington, Borough Park, Parkville and Mapleton, and serves as the dividing line between two separate street grid systems as well as being McDonald Avenue’s running buddy, accepting some of its traffic and lessening the load on the el-shrouded McDonald. If you look at [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Kensington Midwood Parkville
Heaven, as XTC has told us, is paved with broken glass. That means that as a resident of New York City, I’ll feel right at home if I ever get there. Today we’ll take a walk on downtown Brooklyn’s Willoughby Street, which shares the title of main business street along with Fulton Street, the big [...]
Categorized in: Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: Brooklyn Downtown Willoughby Street
“There was a time in this fair land when the railroad did not run,” once sang Canadian Gordon Lightfoot, and as hard to believe as it is now, NYC and New Jersey never had a rail connection crossing the mighty Hudson until 1910, when Pennsylvania Station opened. Much of the grand architecture associated with the connection has [...]
Categorized in: Out of Town Tagged with: New Jersey
FNY doesn’t spend enough time in the Bronx – your webmaster freely admits guilt. With today’s Slice I’ll present a batch of photos I shot in High Bridge mostly in January 2005, a time when I was getting photographs for the ForgottenBook — I found that most of my previous pictures were unusable for print for [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx High Bridge
You have to hand it to Nassau and Suffolk Counties…both of those counties mark many of their historic locales with blue and gold signs giving brief details of the building, when it was built, et cetera. Queens used to have quite a few of them, too…these days there are only a couple of the older [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Signs Tagged with: Queens Richmond Hill Woodhaven
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
There has been a gradual coalescing of my observations as I walk through Brooklyn in the mid to late 2000s. The era when Brooklyn worked — as in manufacturing and supplying the world with the fruits of American know-how and technical expertise — is coming to an end. It’s being replaced by service industries, housing, and [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
A venerable relic of the era when outings to cemeteries were the Sunday rage, Niederstein’s Restaurant stood on Metropolitan Avenue (formerly the Williamsburg and Jamaica Turnpike) from the early 1850s to 2005. At first a roadhouse on the Brooklyn & Jamaica Turnpike just east of 69th Street, it later served travelers journeying to nearby Lutheran Cemetery. Over [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Middle Village Queens
9th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen between West 42nd and West 57th Streets, is known for restaurants showcasing cuisines from around the globe…European, Asian, Caribbean, you name it. On a recent walk south on 9th, I wasn’t particularly hungry and so skipped all the restaurants and bistros, and instead snapped photos of all the terrific signage to be [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Signs Tagged with: Hell's Kitchen Manhattan
BY JEREMIAH MOSS Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York In the fall of 2007, the old, ramshackle, idiosyncratic newsstands that long graced our city’s streets began to vanish, replaced by “ticky tacky boxes,” the identical steel and glass street furniture brought to New York by the CEMUSA company of Spain. When their task is completed, they will [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan newsstands
On July 5, 2008 ForgottenFan Vicki and I met on a rather desultory day, with heavy, humid air and frequent showers. After ducking in to see Get Smart (the Steve Carrell version) things cleared up temporarily and it was off to the new Riverside Park along the Hudson River between West 59th and West 72nd. I didn’t see [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Columbus Circle Manhattan
