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Unusual sights on the streets of New York City, from Victorian mansions in Staten Island ... to winter views of Coney Island ... to remnants of long-forgotten streets ... ancient cemeteries ... and Thomas Paine's final day. |
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ROCKIN' THE WESTY. Part One, Westchester Avenue FIVE ACROSS THE HARLEM: bridges spanning Manhattan and the South Bronx. PART 2. FIVE ACROSS THE HARLEM: bridges spanning Manhattan and the South Bronx. BROADWAY in The Bronx LITTLE LOURDES in the Bronx BACK ON 'COURSE THE HUB, BUB. A walk in the South Bronx. DUYVIL IN THE DETAILS. A look at Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx.
BORDERLINE CRAZY PART II BORDERLINE CRAZY PART 1 TO
HAVE... AND HAVE MOTT THERE'S NO STOPPIN' THE CROTON FROM HOPPIN'.
Remnants of the Croton Aqueduct, Old and New. HIGH BRIDGE. The oldest bridge connecting two boroughs is almost unknown. THAT'S SHOWBIZ. A selection of ancient Bronx theatres. TAKIN' THE BRONX BY 'COURSE. The Grand Concourse from the Deegan to the Mosholu. THE BONNY BONNY BANKS OF THE BRONX. Bank buildings used for other things. WHO WANTS TO BE ON A STREET SIGN? You never know who you'll meet up with deep in the heart of the Bronx. HALL OF FAME, NOBODY CAME. There's a magnificent exhibit honoring nearly a hundred great Americans on a hill overlooking the New Jersey Palisades. But it's deserted. BRONX ROCKS! Revolutionary War remains in Pelham Bay Park. STEP STREETS. Rare streets devoted only to the access of pedestrians in the Bronx.
MYRTLE AVENUE, the el streets MYRTLE AVENUE Part 1 A walk on GRAHAM AVENUE MANHATTAN AVENUE ... in Brooklyn BEDFORD FELLOWS PART 2: BEVERLEY ROAD TO ATLANTIC AVENUE CENTER COURT: the spine of Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens GREENPOINT AVENUE: Greenpoint, Blissville, Sunnyside I KENT EXPLAIN a Brooklyn waterfront avenue A walk on SMITH STREET in Carroll Gardens DOOM WITH A VIEW around Green-Wood Cemetery WYCKOFF AVENUE, where you must Paint Fair 18 AND I LIKE IT A romp on Brooklyn's 18th Avenue 8th AVENUE Brooklyn's 8th, beautiful and brownstoned. LEIFS THAT ARE GREEN. The Lief Ericson corridor park. BEDFORD FELLOWS, PART 1 Sheepshead Bay to Flatbush. OVINGTON AVENUE and the plight of Bay Ridge's "Green Church" ATLANTIC FRANTIC. A walk on Atlantic Avenue FIFTH AVENUE FAITH. What's it all about, Alfie? SLOPE AND ANCHOR. An unusual find in Park Slope 3RD MAN. Edwin Litchfield, who shaped the street and its neighborhood, Park Slope LITTLE MILTON, the best block in Greenpoint? BROWNSTONE PARADISE? A look at Time Out New York's favorite block GOING FOURTH. Strolling 4th Avenue in Park Slope KNICK KNACK. A stroll on Myrtle, Knickerbocker, and other Bushwick streets 13 GHOSTS NORSE CODE WHAT WE'RE LOSING LAVENDER LAKE BROADWAY BULLETIN 5 ALIVE BORDERLINE CRAZY: BROOKLYN-QUEENS SECRETS OF PROSPECT PARK GREENPOINT, TOP TO BOTTOM CONEY ON MY MIND QUICK, BEFORE THEY GENTRIFY IT. Fulton Street from Fort Greene to East New York. WHERE BROOKLYN BEGAN. Fulton Street from the east River to downtown. STONED OUT OF MY MIND. Hidden treasures in Brooklyn Museum's back yard. "E" STREET BLAND. Why is there a missing 'e' in Luquer Street? THE TRANSOMS OF RED HOOK. A walk in the comebacking waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood. DIS-EN-GAGED COLLECTING NEW YORK BRIDGE IN THE BACK YARD OH, THE MURALITY A SPY AT THE HOUSE OF MOE. Just a little story about four houses in Bath Beach built by a guy named Moe. HAVE YOU BEEN TO...DUMBO? Surprises in Brooklyn between the bridges. BROOKLYN'S MOTHER ROAD. Yesterday and today on Kings Highway. OASES OF EAST NEW YORK. Community gardens in a comebacking Brooklyn neighborhood. KER-SPLOOSH! Everybody into McCarren Pool! WHERE THE GRASS IS GREENER STILL. A look at South Greenfield, Brooklyn, a vanished small town once visited by Trotsky, Cosby and Valentino BAY RIDGE FEVER A look at the ancient relics of your webmaster's hometown. DR. COOK'S MANSION. Of the reputed discoverer of the North Pole, and the rediscovery of Bushwick.. THE ENCHANT(ED) VILLAGES. And more relics of Greenpoint. THE PARROTS OF BROOKLYN COLLEGE. They're green, they squawk and they're multiplying in Brooklyn. FORT-GOTTEN GREENE. Why are there telephones carved onto a building on Willoughby Street? Well, it's not as if we won't tell you. RKO BUSHWICK THEATRE. Grand old Beaux Arts theatre stands ruined yet dignified in Bedford-Stuyvesant. TOP OF THE WORLD, MA. A rare view from the observation deck of the tallest building in Brooklyn. TOP OF THE WORLD, MA VOL. II. Another set of pictures from way, way up there. TO GRAVESEND AND BEYOND. A 350-year old cemetery, a monument to the inventor of the telephone (not who you think) and a Long Island Rail Road station. RE-WARD-ING DISCOVERY. The last remains of Brooklyn's old politcal subdivision, the ward. CARROLL STREET BRIDGE. One of the last four of its type in the country. VINEGAR HILL. A look at one of Brooklyn's more isolated residential neighborhoods. ALBEMARLE & KENMORE TERRACES. Oases of calm in busy Flatbush. SHIFTING WHITE SANDS. Why most of a venerable Brooklyn neighborhood has vanished forever. THERE USED TO BE A BALLPARK RIGHT HERE. AND STILL IS. Check out the old ballpark of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Yes, the Brooklyn Dodgers.
SOUTH RISES AGAIN. A walk on South Street. THE NARROW WAY. Broadway from Greeley to Union Squares. A walk on DUANE STREET 110th STREET, the street with three names A walk on DIVISION STREET THE OUTLOOK IS BLEECKER. From the West Village to the East CHIP ON THE OLD BLOCK. Visiting my old workplace neighborhood. FOUR SHORTENED. Manhattan's shortest numbered avenue ART DECO apartment buildings in WASHINGTON HEIGHTS HEY NINETEEN! A walk on 19th Street in the Flatiron 6,7. More side streets in the East Village 3, 4, 5. LAST ROUNDUP at the CheyenneDinerSide streets in the East Village 13 STEPS A walk on 13th Street IN SEARCH OF WASHINGTON Downtown pieces of Washington Street WEST STREET STORY from Chelsea Piers to Canal Street PENN STATION TO ASTORIA. In three hours. MYSTERY OF THE OBELISKS Guest page by Martin Langfield, author of The Malice Box PORN UNDER A BAD SIGN. The vanishing sleez of 8th Avenue AS THEY WERE. NYC scenes, 1940-1960 WHAT WOULD McGURK SAY Now that his Suicide Hall is a luxury condo? |
FIEFDOMS The Flower and Sewing Machine districts HANDRAILFANNING. Macy's wooden escalators GOLD PANNING END OF THE TUNNEL BACK TO THE ISLAND GOHO! DON'T FORGET YOUR RUBBER 53 SKIDDOO CROSSING IN STYLE BACK TO THE BOWERY! I CAN'T DRIVE 155. Walking West 155th Street from the Harlem to the Hudson. ON GUARD. Governors Island is now open to the public, in limited fashion. TOKEN OPPOSITION SECRETS OF CENTRAL PARK THE FIRE, THAT TIME THE EVER-PRESENT FULTON-NESS. A look at the details of Fulton Street in lower Manhattan. DEEP SIXTH. Secrets of Sixth Avenue including the Grapevine, elevated trains, lost streets and stores. BARON VON PHONEBOOTH. Stalking one of NYC's fast-disappearing species. WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS) (AND DOGS) PART V. Statues of real people in Central Park. WHO ARE THOSE GUYS & GALS VOLUME 4. Part 4 in a series highlighting statues of real people in NYC: Midtown including Times Square WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS)? Part Three in a series highlighting statues of real people in NYC: Madison and Union Squares WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS)? Part Two in a series highlighting statues of real people in NYC: Chinatown/Soho/the Villages. WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS)? First in a series highlighting statues of real people in NYC. BRIDGES OF CENTRAL PARK PART 1 BRIDGES OF CENTRAL PARK PART 2 THE BLOCKHOUSE AND THE BENCH. Military fortifications in what would become Central Park.. ROCKIN' IN THE FREE WORLD. The Mountain of Manhattan in Washington Heights was left by glaciers centuries ago. BEEN GOOD TO GNOME YA.
Door carvings in lower Manhattan. YOU'RE GONNA KNOW THEM Just a couple of funny-looking guys about town. WE'LL TAKE THE MANHATTAN We're walkin' on the Manhattan Bridge, and don't it feel good. THE BOMBS OF WALL STREET A 1920 terrorist bombing's evidence can still be seen on the world's capital of commerce. MILLER'S CROSSING. A look at the destruction of the Miller Elevated Highway, what's there now, and what remains of it today. IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? Remnants of an ancient hospital on Central Park West. PARDON IF I BARGE IN. Twisted ruins of a barge transfer station mark Trump's new addition to Riverside Park. TABLE FOR TWO, PLEASE. A restaurant near the Upper West Side boat basin. in winter. THEY STILL OUGHTTA BE IN PICTURES. More ancient theater buildings, this time in Manhattan. A PAINE IN THE... What does Thomas Paine, revolutionary author, have to do with a piano bar in Greenwich Village? MANHOLE AND COAL-CHUTE COVERS Keep looking down! GRAND CENTRAL BESTIARY. It's all happening at the Grand Central's inanimate zoo.. THE U.S. SENATE IN NEW YORK CITY. Congress once met in New York City...but where? THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. No, not that one. It's the, um, other one. WHAT LIES BENEATH. An unusual deconstruction on First Avenue. TWELVE HORSEPEOPLE OF THE METROPOLIS. Manhattan's equestrian statuary. AN ISLAND IN MANHATTAN. Manhattan may be an island, but there's an island in Manhattan! I HAVE A FEELING WE'RE NOT IN MANHATTAN ANYMORE. But we ARE, Dorothy. EAT YOUR HEART OUT, MARTHA STEWART. The things you can do with crockery, especially when the cops aren't looking! 145TH STREET BRIDGE. This unusual bridge retains several elements from decades ago. A GATE TO REMEMBER. The dock where a certain ocean liner never came in. VILLAGE, FORGOTTEN-STYLE. Some out-of-the-way stuff the guidebooks and legit tours might miss. THE END OF PENN STATION. Remnants of the once-magnificent Temple Of Transportation. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE STARS ON ST. MARKS PLACE. A mini-version of Grauman's Chinese Theatre sidewalk. HAMILTON FISH COURT. What's a fish court, and who named it for Hamilton?
MYRTLE AVENUE, Glendale/Richmond Hill MYRTLE AVENUE, Ridgewood and Glendale 80 YEARS AGO ON FLUSHING AVENUE. An exhibit by the Newtown Historical Society FLUSHING FROM A-R. Avenues with plant names in Queens BACK TO THE BOULEVARD, Queens Boulevard along the Flushing El QUEENS' CRAPPIEST. Linden Place, the worst street in the borough LIFE ON DITMARS, northern Astoria's main street 32ND AVENUE in Flushing: ridiculous and sublime BROADWAY in Queens Sergey visits the mighty FLUSHING RIVER SHEA IT AIN'T SO The lights go out at Shea Stadium OUR MR. BROOK Sergey Kadinsky follows the former Horse Brook SWEET 116 Memorials and flophouses in Rockaway Park TAKIN' JAMAICA AVENUE. Best known for its Queens stretch, Jamaica Avenue also spends time in Brooklyn. BORDERLINE CRAZY on the Jericho-Jamaica Nassau-Queens line. FED UP at the conditions at St. Saviour's Church and the developers and politicians that want it gone. FAREWELL FLUSHING Hello I must be going. PAC-MAN FEVER. Out of my mind in Little Neck THE REAL FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK A WALK IN SUNNYSIDE, uncovering secrets COME ONE, COME ALL... To the gateway to Queens...Queens Plaza HACKETT BUDDIES. A doomed Long Island City building and its neighbors MY FLUSHING WAS GONE A Very Special ForgottenPage about the destruction of my neighborhood PERFECT. Is this the best block in Queens? Also: Newtown Road NORTHERN EXPOSURE DOOR TO THE PAST. Queens' oldest residence is also its most gorgeous. 23 SKIDDOO 2. The fabled 23rd Street...of Queens ST. SAVIOUR'S: THE GOOD, THE BAD and THE UGLY. Christina chronicles the complacent politicians and negligent commissions contributing to St. Saviour's perlious predicament. BOULEVARD OF DEATH BOULEVARD OF DEATH IN THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE MIDDLE MARCH STACKS WAXED QUOTH THE RAVENSWOOD HAVE YOU BEEN TO...GLENDALE? SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN IN LONG ISLAND CITY. THE GENERAL AND QUEENS. The Queens neighborhood named for a general who never visited it. LONG, HARD ROAD. A look at Flushing Avenue. BORDERLINE CRAZY PART III NO FAIR AT ALL LOOKIN' FOR FATS Some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century lived in the same neighborhood in southern Queens. ASTORIA VILLAGE. Surviving mansions and buildings from the robber baron era. |
HAVE YOU BEEN TO... ELMHURST? Church buildings from the 1700s meet jet-age architecture in the heartland of Queens. HAVE YOU BEEN TO... MASPETH? A look at this low-key Queens neighborhood and its relics. HONEY, I SHRUNK THE BRIDGE. A venerable viaduct in Sunnyside bites the dust. WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO MY LAUNDRY, MA? "The Most Beautiful Building in Queens," plus Arbitration Rock, The Sugar House, and Inspiration Point. WHEN THE GOING GETS TROUGH. A leftover horse trough in Flushing, and other treats. THE WEEDY GREEN YONDER. Queens' forgotten airport. RETURN TO THE WEEDY GREEN YONDER. A second look at ancient Flushing Airport. THE LONG ISLAND 45. Queens' first superhighway is now a bicycle path. THE BRIDGE TO NASSAU. Outlying sections of Queens, including the only bridge shared by New York City and Nassau County. FLESSEL'S OF COLLEGE POINT. A College Point hotel / restaurant has had a date with the wrecker's ball but will be remembered right here. WOODHAVEN TROTTING COURSE. Old street name reveals pastoral past of present main throughfare. A RAMBLE IN RAMBLERSVILLE. A little-known Queens neighborhood near Kennedy Airport. LONG ISLAND CITY. A view of an unusual neighborhood with an outstanding view. ABANDONED LUNCHEONETTE. Spooky old diner on Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park. PUT UP YER DUKES. Why did they carve boxing gloves into the artwork at the new Bayside LIRR station?
PORT RICHMOND AVENUE, Staten Island TRAVELS OF ST. PAUL. Stapleton's architectural treasues BROADWAY in Staten Island VIEW FROM THE TERRACE PT. 2. Richmond Terrace from Port Richmond to Howland Hook VIEW FROM THE TERRACE PT. 1. Along Staten Island's Richmond Terrace. AUSTEN POWERS OLD AND IN THE WAY. HOSPITAL OF THE DAMNED. The first collaboration between Forgotten NY and another urban exploration site finds us discovering who...or what...is there to greet us in a Staten Island hospital abandoned for 25 years. WESTERLEIGH. Staten Island's first and last Prohibitionist development is an enclave of Victoriana. THE VICTORIANS OF VICTORY BOULEVARD. Some of Staten Island's most gorgeous homes, forgotten by all except their owners and neighbors, in St. George and Tottenville. THE BACK ROADS OF STATEN ISLAND. Some increasingly rare rural scenes from Staten Island.
END OF THE CLASSIC NEWSSTAND Guest post by Jeremiah Moss MIXED BAG, Forgotten leftovers OPEN BORDERS. Images from Open House New York 2006. FORGOTTEN REJECTS. Photography you won't see in the Forgottenbook NAB FAB. Old police precincts around town GNOMING ME, GNOMING YOU. BAR SOME OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK. Where no Forgottoner has gone before. BORDERLINE CRAZY PART III MEETING ACROSS THE RIVER NAME THAT CAR A Checker cab-inspired look at ancient cars on NYC streets. UNDER MY WHEELS Name That Car, Part II. FORGOTTEN BOSTON Relics in New York's northernmost suburb, um, Hub of the Universe. NOTHING COULD BE FINER A look at some of New York City's classic chrome-plated, cholesterol-spreading diners. LITTLE BROTHERS Wall Street, Park Avenue, Canal Street in other boroughs. GOING...GOING...GONE The places where you used to be able to go have pretty much gotten up and went. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE OF TOWN. Vintage postcards from places you wouldn't expect. THE NEW YORK ISLANDS. Think NYC islands are just Manhattan and Staten Islands? Think again...there are lots more. AN ISLAND JUST FOR U. An East River oddity, and other unconnected Street Scenes. EXILE ON MAIN STREET, NYC. New York's five Main Streets. STREET CLOCKS. A look at some of New York City's decades-old street timekeepers. ANCIENT MAILBOX. Decades-old, unusual one-slot mailboxes that have been supplanted by the big boxy mailboxes. JUST GOTTA VENT. The story behind NYC's ubiquitous streetcorner ventilation units. MR. STEINWAY, MEET MR. KREISCHER. A look at two 19th Century manufacturing families and the similar marks they made on their respective NYC neighborhoods. WHAT THE HECK IS THAT THING? Because this is Forgotten NY, we know what it is. And when we don't, we're man enough to admit it. BABY, YOU USED TO DRIVE MY CAR. A look at two former car dealerships. FIRE ALARMS. Unusual fire-alarm boxes, and the ancient streetlamps that indicate their presence. ODDS AND ENDS. Civil-War era housing, ancient lighthouses, abandoned hamburger joints, and the Graham Home For Old Ladies. BUSES. Four generations of NYC buses displayed at the Transit Museum. GONZO! A look at places and things that have disappeared since being chronicled in Forgotten NY |
