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…
May 2012
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Queens Boulevard in 1937, long before it would be known as the Boulevard of Death for its screaming traffic and pedestrian fatalities. Queens Blvd. would hold onto its Twinlamp collection…
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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…
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I’m where they have sex and drugs and rock and roll
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This incredible painted sign at Washington and Atlantic Avenues in Brooklyn (across from my old high school) has been now been tamed and homogenized: Because we need logos, don’t…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 at the World…
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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…
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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…
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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…