As Forgotten New York readers know I have an enthusiasm for short streets and alleys, of which New York simply does not have enough, compared to cities such as Philly…

WAY BACK in 1999. the dawn of the Forgotten NY era, I profiled Lake Place, an odd east-west alley in Gravesend running east from 86th Street at West 11th Street…

FLETCHER STREET, a narrow alley in the South Street Seaport area originally going three blocks between Pearl and South Streets a block north of Maiden Lane, is seen here in…

YOU can be forgiven if you completely overlook Shrady Place, a dead end on Kingsbridge Terrace just south of Fort Independence Street in Kingsbridge Heights. The Terrace runs atop a…

BUILDING on yesterday’s post about the long-forgotten Dubose Lane in Cambria Heights, I was tipped by a Forgotten Fan named Danny about one that’s closer to home, in Dyker Heights,…

WHILE poring over Open Street Map for something interesting — as one does — I have come upon a complete and utter mystery out of the blue. It’s in Cambria…

MARKETFIELD Street is one of the city’s few L-shaped routes, proceeding from Broad Street opposite #75 and then doglegging west and north to Beaver and New Streets. Nothing to write home…

MUCH of downtown Brooklyn has given up its rich collection of one-block and dead-end alleys, with a few notable exceptions, such as Grace Court, Grace Court Alley and even Harrison…

DUMBO, the section of Brooklyn beneath the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, was by and large an industrial and maufacturing outpost for most of its existence; only lately has it become…

In a realm where dead end alleys are few and far between, many years ago during my bicycle rides throughout Brooklyn I noted Dahl Court, a pleasant cul de sac…

From FNY’s first Ridgewood page in 2005: In the first decade of the 20th Century Paul Stier built more than 750 houses in Ridgewood under his own name, and after…

HOW does one explain Barnell Street, which seems to have popped up organically on Red Hook street maps including Google over the past couple of decades? The city doesn’t grace…