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On a way more brutally hot Saturday than my post-operational stamina had any right to be enduring, I weaved my way pitifully through Pelham Bay in the Bronx, a mendicant seeking what crumbs the neighborhood would toss an amateur seeker of hidden urban secrets. After gingerly crossing a broken glass-strewn, pockmarked, graffiti-smeared expressway overpass, I saw [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Bronx Pelham Bay
When NYC had a more rural character and was dotted with farms a couple of centuries ago, grist mills, in which grain is ground into flour, were primary engines of commerce. Though none are left within the five boroughs, maps nonetheless are stocked with lanes and roads called Mill, some major, some minor — Manhattan (1), [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Tagged with: Bath Beach Brooklyn Gravesend
Saturday, June 26, 2010 marks the end of service of Little Neck’s sole north-south bus route, the Q79, which covered almost the entire length of Little Neck Parkway, northeast Queens’ easternmost main street, from 40th Avenue south to Jericho Turnpike. The Q79 carried passengers from the Long Island Rail Road Little Neck station to neighborhoods south [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Little Neck Queens
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Financial District Manhattan
BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York contributor Hunters Point has been visited before quite a few times by Forgotten-NY, but like a good book, every time you read it, you always find something new in the story. With the redevelopment of Hunters Point South on the fast track to completion, we take one more look to the [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Neighborhoods Tagged with: Hunters Point Queens
I have often marvelled at Hunter’s Point’s 45th Avenue, which is lined on both sides with fine Italianate brownstone row houses constructed from 1871-1890. 45th Avenue deserves a much more detailed treatment thann it has received in FNY to date — fortunately, the Hunters Point Historic District Landmarks Preservation Commission report, done very early in the LPC’s history [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Hunters Point Queens
The sky was angry that day, 6/6/10, my friends, for ForgottenTour 40, the third tour under the auspices of the Newtown Historical Society, and there were even doubts that the tour would take place that day or finish, if it did start. We did get the tour started, though, and finished it with a minimum of tempestuousness. [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Queens Woodside
After recently stumbling (or was I pushed?) off the J train at Marcy Avenue, the first stop in Brooklyn, I walked up and down the platform, snapping away at what met my gaze. There’s a panoply of Brooklyn architecture from the classic era visible from here, and in perfect weather, who could resist. In the mid-2000s most of [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Subways & Trains Tagged with: Brooklyn Williamsburg
Sometimes, I’d rather be in Philadelphia. Or Boston. Or even Albany, Newark or Jersey City. I’ll explain. Manhattan, once you get north of 14th Street, just doesn’t have the sheer number of dead-ends or one-block alleys block by block that other northeast cities have. Philadelphia has a main network grid of streets — numbered north and [...]
Categorized in: Alleys Neighborhoods Tagged with: Brooklyn Brooklyn Heights Downtown DUMBO
The Department of Transportation, in its unceasing effort to expunge all remnants of vintage street signage (taking time off from building more bicycle lanes or pedestrian plazas in heavily trafficked parts of town) has eliminated two more nonstandard street signs on its hit list, both in my neighborhood of Little Neck. The sign on the title [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Signs Tagged with: Little Neck Queens
