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ForgottenFan Dennis Harper recently found one of those rarest of birds in the NYC street paving canon — a red bricked street with a median shown by alternating bricks in white! I had only seen this treatment done on a couple of streets in Jamaica, Queens, and, though I have made a number of visits to Bedford [...]
Categorized in: Cobblestones Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx Norwood
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Approaching Brooklyn College Passing Glenwood Road (above left) and Utica Avenue (right) we passed some large tanks owned by Favorite Plastics, a manufacturer of polyethylene film. Glenwood Road, and Albemarle, Beverl(e)y, Clarendon, Dorchester and Farragut, were once lettered, but several decades ago real estate developers though they’d sound better with sophisticated, vaguely British monikers. [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Long Island RR NY & Atlantic RR Queens
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Long Island RR NY & Atlantic RR Queens
“Bedford” is perhaps a better-known appellation on Brooklyn, where Bedford Avenue is the borough’s longest, running from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay, or the Bronx, where Bedford Park borders Fodham University and the NY Botanical Gardens. Bedford Street is one of Greenwich Vilage’s more unsung throughfares, running northwest from 6th Avenue and Houston Street to Christopher. The [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Greenwich Village Manhattan
“Heaven,” postulated David Byrne, “is a place where nothing ever happens.” “Being just contaminates the void,” Robyn Hitchcock riposted some years later. In that spirit, it’s just possible that the three alleyways shown on today’s ForgottenPage are still here in New York, a town that has gradually sloughed off, paved over and eliminated its alleys over the [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Tribeca
Time for one of FNY’s periodic closet-cleaning sessions — I select several photos that are disconnected to each other, yet show an out-of-the-way NYC locale, or something that disappeared long ago. I shot some of them myself and people worldwide send them in — some I acquired quite some time ago so forgive me if I [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices
With so much attention being paid to the city’s shameful land grab that threatens to put the businesses of Willets Point, the ”Iron Triangle” of Queens, out of business, I thought it would be appropriate to show you a much larger ‘iron triangle’ just across the East River in the Bronx, Hunt’s Point, where auto glass, auto parts, light industry [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bronx Hunts Point
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan West Village
Believe it or not Forgotten NY does get complaints. Well, one or two once in awhile. Many of them concern FNY’s stuck-in-1999 design. To your webmaster, RSS sounds like an auto parts store and twitter is what birds do. Others complain about underrepresentation of some neighborhoods. I will plead guilty in this — in ten [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Walks Tagged with: Blissville Brooklyn Greenpoint Queens Sunnyside
guest post by DON GILLIGAN On March 1, 1932, 77 years ago (in 2009), at about 9:00 PM, someone placed a homemade ladder against the wall of the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, NJ and set in motion a series of events that would culminate three years later in a trial that journalist H. L. Mencken would call, with [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Bronx Pelham Parkway Woodlawn
It’s a lot cooler to not look back. I heard Van Morrison being interviewed by Don Imus [early March 2009] (about 100 years of showbiz there) and he said he never listens to his old hits, even though he was touring on his 1968 recird Astral Weeks in early 2009. But among artists, they’re supposed to say they never look [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bay Ridge Brooklyn
As a Bay Ridge boy I made frequent trips by bus to Staten Island after the opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in November 1964. What was then the R7 (now the S53) ran from 95th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn to what was then Staten Island’s retail hotbed, Richmond Avenue in Port Richmond. And so, [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Staten Island Staten Island Railway Verrazano Bridge
