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One of my new favorite spots while hiking the twisting and turning length of Richmond Terrace on Staten Island’s north shore — home to a brand new pedestrian walk facing Upper New York Bay and a long-abandoned railroad, as well as the remains of gypsum plants and plumbing supply firms — is the hole-in-the-wall Leidy’s [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: New Brighton Staten Island
There are a total of seventeen cemeteries in Cypress Hills on either side of the Brooklyn-Queens border. It’s a hilly area, where thousands of years ago a glacier was stopped cold, depositing debris in its advance, accounting for the hills of Staten Island and the middle of Brooklyn, Queens and on into Long Island. I’ve [...]
Categorized in: Cemeteries Tagged with: Brooklyn Cypress Hills
From the ForgottenBook: The Montauk Club is a slice of Victoriana that would be pretentious if it weren’t so enjoyable and fun to view when walking past. The club itself was established in 1889 as a “gentleman’s social club”; a plaque at the front entrance describes its 1891 building at 8th Avenue and Lincoln Place as [...]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Brooklyn Park Slope
From Willets Point Boulevard in the Iron Triangle, a row of auto repair and scrap metal shops just east of Citifield in what is officially Corona, Queens. The area’s only resident lives on the second floor above the deli on the right. The City has been trying to oust the scrap metal dealers for years, [...]
Continuing the 2012 tradition of beautiful weather for ForgottenTours (unlike previous years) ForgottenTour 53 met at the end of the line of the #6 train, Pelham Bay Park, and 30 ForgottenFans took the BX29 bus to the first stop in City Island, a spit of land in Eastchester Bay off the coast of Orchard Beach, [...]
Categorized in: Tours Tagged with: Bronx City Island
The Port Authority Trans-Hudson Railroad, or the PATH train, is NYC’s “other” subway, running under 6th Avenue, Christopher Street, Greenwich Street and Morton Street and from Church Street on the once and future World Trade Center site to various stops in Hoboken, Jersey City, and Newark, New Jersey. At its full length, it runs from [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Chelsea Greenwich Village Manhattan
I’ve been asked to cover locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, American [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bronx City Island
Word comes from NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob Mulero, that the perhaps centuries-old set of Special Iron Twin Standards on the Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard ramp to the Harlem River Driveway just south of the Macomb’s Dam Bridge have been altered and replaced. As first described in Forgotten NY in 2001, “they sort of represent [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Street Lamps Tagged with: Harlem Manhattan
Forgotten New York’s 2nd tour of the 2012 season was Sunday, April 29th in Battery Park and Bowling Green. We met at South Ferry at noon and, once again, the weather was unusually spectacular for a ForgottenTour. That makes two in a row! We explored State Street, Bowling Green and Battery Park. We made over [...]
Categorized in: Tours
I’ve been asked to cover locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, American [...]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Bronx Norwood Woodlawn
I’ve been asked to cover three locales selected by Partners in Preservation, an organization sponsored by American Express that, in a partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, awards preservation grants to historic locales across the country. After six years in existence, Partners in Preservation has selected New York as its focus in 2012. Through the partnership, [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: East Village Manhattan
