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The definitive 2nd Avenue FNY page has yet to be written — in sunnier weather I intend to walk it from Houston Street all the way to where it ends at the FDR Drive and East 128th — but till I wind up doing that, I’ll use these shots that I obtained on an east side [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: East Village Manhattan
I haven’t done much on Astoria; it just seems as if I have. I recently walked Broadway in Queens, which cuts across the neighborhoods. And, it seems as if I’m always visiting theGreater Astoria Historical Society for book readings and exhibits. I’ve done a number of pages on Astoria Village, an unprotected 19th-Century area just south of [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Astoria Queens
A recent topic thread in Subchat, the subway blog, made me revisit one of FNY’s long-cherished talismans, the remainders of the old Long Island Rail Road’s “Evergreen” branch, which was a one-track freight line that ceased operation, I believe, sometime in the 1980s. In the long ago and far away, it was a ctually a passenger line [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Subways & Trains Tagged with: Queens Ridgewood
When the topic about Brooklyn’s longest streets comes up (and admittedly, that’s once in a blue moon) Flatbush, Atlantic, Bedford Avenues and Fulton Street come up most often. But there are a group of streets that run from the waterfront at Buttermilk Channel all the way east to Brownsville, running through Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
As of February 2009 the subways are almost 105 years old and even the “newest” parts are over sixty years old. In that amount of time, there are bound to be outdated signs to exits that don’t exist anymore or landmarks that have been torn down. Some of this was deliberately done: plaques in some of [...]
I haven’t dealt much with 9/11/01 on Forgotten NY. The reasons for this are many. Whatever a lone weblog developer scribbling away in Little Neck says will ultimately mean little. I made a pledge to not even give the hint of exploiting the attack to sell books or T-shirts or get google ad clicks; and [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Arrochar Staten Island
The Beekman Tower, at 1st Avenue and Mitchell Place, is one of NYC’s first, and best, examples of Art Deco architecture. It was designed by John Mead Howells, an architect who worked closely with the famed Raymond Hood, and is 28 stories of orange and tan brick and vertical striping. ABOVE: The tower in 1929. As [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan Turtle Bay
By 2008 the only real link I had to my home town, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, is my dentist. I have been treated at the same practice, with two different dentists, since 1964 and, since my father’s demise and the conversion of Zeke’s Roast Beef to yet another Chinese food place (like there aren’t enough of [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bay Ridge Brooklyn
Recent trips through Staten Island and Queens have reminded me that there are areas of the city, the five boroughs, that may as well be anywhere else — they have nothing at all to do with Manhattan and its glittering attractions like the King of All Buildings, the Metropolitan Museum, the NY Public Library. They’re stable [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Queens Woodside
There are New Yorkers who have never set foot in Staten Island, and there are New Yorkers who are shocked to hear that there are people who don’t live there who have. In fact the most frequent amount of time spent by some New Yorkers is the time they spend accompanying friends are relatives from out of [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Fort Hill St. George Staten Island
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Brooklyn Windsor Terrace
Staten Island’s surviving Broadway is one of the main north-south streets of West New Brighton, running from Clove Road at St. Peter’s Cemetery generally north to Richmond Terrace. I say “surviving” because Staten Island has had a number of Broadways over the years, as this list by historian Steve Morse attests: there have also been [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Staten Island West Brighton
