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  • SCENES FROM FORGOTTENTOUR #67, Riverside Drive

    June 14, 2013
    Tags:Manhattan, Manhattanville, Upper West Side
    title.tour67.pics

    Breaking our one-tour losing streak with the weather (The Tottenville tour was completed but through mainly rain) FNY’s Riverside Drive tour on Sunday, June 2nd, featured mostly sunshine with the hint of a sprinkle mid-tour. As usual, your webmaster narrated the tour with the aid of Rich Melnick of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. We [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #68: Corona, Queens

    June 3, 2013
    Tags:Corona, Queens

    Saturday, June 22, Corona, Queens, 12 noon. Meet: on street at Corona Plaza, Roosevelt Avenue and National Street, 103rd Street stop, #7 train. Join Forgotten NY‘s Kevin Walsh and GAHS’ Rich Melnick in exploring Corona, Queens, visiting several historic locales such as the former Linden Lake, the site of a former racetrack, highlights of the [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #66 RECAP: Tottenville, Staten Island

    May 23, 2013
    Tags:Staten Island, Tottenville

    All good things come to an end and ForgottenTour #66 in Tottenville marked the end of a good-luck weather streak that had lasted the latter part of 2011 and all of 2012, as downpours of varying intensity marked the day’s events. The crowd was kept down by the rain as well. We’ll have to invest [...]

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  • SCENES FROM FORGOTTENTOUR #65 — Calvary Cemetery

    May 10, 2013
    Tags:Blissville, Queens

    May 4th, 2013 continued the lengthy string of ForgottenTour sunny weather that had begun in 2012, as over 35 ForgottenFans were treated to pleasant 60-degree conditions for a walk in Calvary Cemetery, Queens. We stopped at about two dozen memorials, enjoyed terrific views of the Manhattan skyline and the Kosciuszko Bridge (which is slated for [...]

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  • SCENES FROM FORGOTTENTOUR #64, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens

    May 1, 2013
    Tags:Brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill

    On Sunday, April 21, 2013, nearly 35 ForgottenFans gathered for a tour in Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn and with sunny, 55 degree conditions, the recent weather winning streak for FNY tours continued going back to most 2012 tours. The title card shows the crowd at the WWI War Memorial in Carroll Park. The [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #63 TOUR PHOTOS, City Hall/Nassau Street

    April 9, 2013
    Tags:City Hall Park, Manhattan

    Here are scenes from ForgottenTour #63 at the City Hall Park area and Nassau Street, finishing at Broad and Wall Streets. All photos by Joe DeMarco and Bob Mulero. Descriptions will be found at each individual photo. ForgottenTour #63 4/9/13

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 62, Mott Haven

    March 29, 2013
    Tags:Bronx, Mott Haven

    I have uploaded photos and descriptions here… http://www.flickr.com/photos/forgotten-ny/sets/72157633117301529/

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  • 2013 TOUR SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED!

    January 1, 2013

    These programs are supported by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and NYC Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr. Additional support is provided by the membership of the Greater Astoria Historical Society. Most tours are $15 for members of the Greater Astoria Historical Society, and $20 for non-members. Meeting places and further details to come.  Saturday, [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #60 RECAP: GREEN-WOOD

    October 25, 2012
    Tags:Brooklyn

    Tour #60 was FNY’s 4th trip into Green-Wood Cemetery, concentrating this time on the cemetery’s central and southwest sections. As with all the tours thus far in 2012, the weather was bright and sunny, albeit a little cool for early October with the mercury around 50 degrees. In fact the weather has occasionally been TOO [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #59 RECAP: DUMBO

    September 19, 2012
    Tags:Brooklyn, DUMBO

    Sunday, September 9th, 2012 turned out what you might expect, weather-wise, from that date: sunny and 78 degrees. So far in 2012 not a drop of rain has fallen on a ForgottenTour, though admittedly two tours had to be postponed because of 95-degree temperatures. This was the best-attended of any tour thus far this year, [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #58 RECAP: SOUTH STREET SEAPORT

    September 5, 2012
    Tags:Manhattan, Seaport

    The Fulton Fish Market, NYC’s primary seafood wholesale market, moved to Hunts Point in the Bronx in 2005, after a tenure here of over 170 years. It’s gone now, as are Sweet’s and Sloppy Louie’s Restaurants (the old Paris Bar and Grill at South Street and Peck Slip, is still here as it has been [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #57: INWOOD/INWOOD HILL PARK

    August 14, 2012
    Tags:Inwood, Manhattan

    On a Saturday when the predicted rain did NOT materialize (in 2012 there has not been a drop of rain whatsoever during ForgottenTours so far) almost 30 ForgottenFans assembled at Dyckman Street and Broadway and 4 hours of Forgottening began. Humid and tropical it may have been,  but we saw an area of Manhattan that [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR #56: ST. MARKS – STUYVESANT SQUARE

    July 25, 2012
    Tags:East Village, Manhattan, Stuyvesant Square

    ForgottenTour #56 was held Tuesday, July 17th at 6:30 PM. The air was only slightly less cooler than it had been during the day, when it reached 95 degrees, but this year’s string of rain-free ForgottenTours remained intact. Our goal was to visit several sites associated with Peter Stuyvesant, the last and perhaps greatest of [...]

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  • MARINE AIR TERMINAL WALK

    June 29, 2012

    On June 24, 2012 the Newtown Historical Society walked Ditmars Boulevard from the N/Q train terminal to the Art Deco Marine Air Terminal, a landmarked building on the western edge of LaGuardia Airport. Sunny 80-degree weather made for optimum weather conditions for NHS’ second tour of the year. Basically the walk was along Ditmars Boulevard, [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 55: MADISON SQUARE/5th AVENUE

    June 14, 2012
    Tags:Madison Square, Manhattan

    On the fifth straight ForgottenTour in 2012 featuring beautiful weather, ForgottenTour 55 met at the William H. Seward statue in Madison Park (honoring Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State who engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia) on Sunday, June 10th and toured Madison Square Park and 5th Avenue between 23rd and 14th Streets. Among the [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 54: TRINITY CEMETERY/WALL STREET

    June 14, 2012
    Tags:Financial District, Manhattan, Wall Street

    On a gorgeous Saturday, June 2, 2012, ForgottenTour 54 met at Broadway and Wall Street and explored Trinity Cemetery and the entire length of Wall Street, finishing at South Street Seaport. Highlights among the 40 stops on the tour …   The first mention of this space as a burial ground was in 1673, over [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 53 IN CITY ISLAND

    May 23, 2012
    Tags:Bronx, City Island

    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, [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 52: BATTERY PARK

    May 15, 2012

    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 [...]

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  • TOUR 51: PROSPECT CEMETERY and KING MANOR

    April 25, 2012
    Tags:Jamaica, Queens

    Forgotten New York’s first tour of the 2012 season was April 12th in Jamaica, Queens, at Prospect Cemetery (159th Street between Archer and Liberty Avenues) and King Manor (Jamaica Avenue at 153rd Street). The weather was unusually spectacular for a ForgottenTour. Jamaica’s Prospect Cemetery was founded in 1668. After many years of neglect, the cemetery [...]

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  • Newtown Historical: Corona, Queens

    January 29, 2012
    Tags:Corona, Queens

    Winter 2011-2012 has not been one for the frigid blasts and howling tempests that usually accompany the months of December and January as the weather has mostly been in the 40s.  As luck would have it, when the Newtown Historical Society announced a march  through Corona and tabbed Your Webmaster as the tour guide, the temperature hovered around [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 50: The Hudson Riverfront

    December 20, 2011

    Egads, I forgot to post tour photos from our latest tour, which was Number 50 in a series that goes all the way back to June 1st, 1999, when we did a 5 hour tour on Brooklyn’s Broadway from the East River to Broadway Junction in East New York. This tour, on Saturday, November 12th, [...]

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 49: GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

    October 19, 2011
    Tags:DeWitt Clinton, Greenwood Heights

    Green-Wood Cemetery, in Brooklyn between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace and Kensington, has proven to be a Forgotten favorite — this was the 3rd such Green-Wood tour in the series which here attains its 49th entry. The cemetery, instituted in 1838, is so vast that it’s impossible to do the same [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 48: The TRIBOROUGH BRIDGE

    September 22, 2011
    Tags:Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Triborough Bridge

    On September 17, 2011, over 40 ForgottenFans met at 2nd Avenue and East 125th Street to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Robert F. Kennedy Triborough Bridge (which opened to traffic on  July 11, 2011) by walking nearly all of its pedestrian span, from Harlem to Wards and Randalls Islands and thence to Astoria, Queens. [...]

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  • Newtown Historical Society tours MASPETH

    September 4, 2011
    Tags:Maspeth, Newtown, Queens

    The Newtown Historical Society toured Maspeth, Queens on July 31, 2011, a day featuring uncommonly good weather for any tour led by Your Webmaster. The Newtown Historical Society was founded to educate the public about the history of the villages that comprised Newtown Township in Queens County, NY.  Newtown Township stretched from the East River to the [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 47, Hunters Point, Queens

    August 14, 2011
    Tags:Hunters Point, Queens

    The latest ForgottenTour, 47th in a series that goes back to June 1, 1999, met at 10:30AM on Saturday, August 13th in Hunters Point, narrated by your webmaster and the Greater Astoria Historical Society‘s Rich Melnick. It was the most successful ForgottenTour of the 2011 season to date as over 40 ForgottenFans signed on for 3 hours [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 46, Prospect Park South, Brooklyn

    July 15, 2011
    Tags:Brooklyn, Prospect Park

    Why was this ForgottenTour different from most other ForgottenTours? Unlike eight of the previous nine tours this one did not feature clouds, rain or rumors of rain, and thus was considerably funner than Tour 45 in Riverdale/Spuyten Duyvil, after which everyone was thoroughly soaked through, and Tour 43 on Skillman Avenue in Sunnyside, after which we entered Donovans of Woodside [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 45, Riverdale/Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx

    June 11, 2011
    Tags:Bronx, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil

    Riverdale is nestled along the Hudson River between Spuyten Duyvil on the south, Yonkers in the north and Van Cortlandt Park on the east. With its curving, quiet lanes, spectacular views of the New Jersey Palisades and spectacular estates, it seems to be more a part of suburban Westchester. The New York Times real estate section [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 44, St. George/New Brighton, Staten Island

    May 14, 2011
    Tags:New Brighton ForgottenTour 44, St. George, St. George/New Brighton, Staten Island

    Saturday, May 14th, 2011 was the second in Forgotten New York’s new Second Saturdays Series in association with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, a more ambitious tours program in the past, as tours are planned for the second Saturday of each month in 2011 through November. No locale will be left uninvaded as FNY continues to seek [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 43, Skillman Avenue, Queens

    April 26, 2011
    Tags:Hunters Point, Queens, Woodside

    Saturday, April 16th marked the first tour of the semi-ambitious FNY Second Saturdays tour events in which Forgotten New York, in association with the Greater Astoria Historical Society, will present one tour per month — all over town, not just in Astoria — on the second Saturday of each month through October. (Yes, April 16th was the [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 39, Newtown/Elmhurst, Queens

    April 18, 2011
    Tags:Elmhurst, Newtown, Queens

    On April 18th, 2010 the first ForgottenTour of the season (39th in the series that began June 1st, 1999 and second in association with the Newtown Historical Society), embarked under partly cloudy and 60-degree conditions, as once again over 40 ForgottenFans and local history enthusiasts converged at the Grand Avenue-Newtown subway station. It turned out to be a 3-hour [...]

    Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Elmhurst Newtown Queens

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  • FORGOTTENTOUR 42: Woodside

    August 1, 2010
    Tags:Queens, Woodside

    A few weeks after exploring the southern reaches of Woodside on ForgottenTour 40, the Newtown Historical Society and FNY turned north and dissected historical territory on Tour 42 (there was an intermission in Bushwick on Tour 41). Woodside, a bustling community centered at Roosevelt Avenue and 61st Street, was originally a part of Newtown, a larger colonial village. It [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 41, Bushwick, Brooklyn

    July 4, 2010
    Tags:Brooklyn, Bushwick

    Though the hot sweltering Sunday, June 27, 2010 weather kept a number of tourgoers away (by apparent contract with the Almighty, ForgottenTours are never held in sunny, brisk, cool weather) 30 diehards still made it to Bushwick, Brooklyn for the 41st tour in a sequence that began June 1st, 1999 — on a nearby thoroughfare, Brooklyn’s [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 40, Woodside, Queens Part 1

    June 10, 2010
    Tags:Queens, Woodside

    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. [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 38, Ridgewood West, Queens

    October 18, 2009
    Tags:Queens, Ridgewood

    So, what were 32 ForgottenFans doing gathered around a fenced rock in soggy Ridgewood on an October 2009 Saturday? They were standing alongside the marker that divided the ancient towns of Bushwick and Newtown, or so the story goes. In the first (to my recollection) ForgottenTour that spanned two boroughs, Forgotteners gathered at the Jefferson Street station on the [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 37, Around Jerome Park Reservoir, Bronx

    August 19, 2009
    Tags:Bronx, Jerome Park

    ForgottenTours resumed for the first time since late summer 2008 on August 16, 2009 with a walk around Jerome Park Reservoir, the Bronx’s “Education Row.” Assisting your webmaster on this tour was Brooklyn Daily Eagle managing editor and veteran tour guide (notably for the old Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment) Raanan Geberer (left), whose recollections [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 36, Secrets of Prospect Park, Brooklyn

    October 28, 2008
    Tags:Brooklyn, Prospect Park

    The confluence of decent weather and a ForgottenTour has been rare indeed. There was one string of about 9 or 10 Tours over a couple of years that featured uniformly overcast weather if not showers as well. All that changed for Tour 36 in Prospect Park on October 26, 2008. October usually features my favorite weather [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 35, Lower Manhattan lampposts

    July 12, 2008
    Tags:Financial District, Manhattan

    Forgotten Fans gather at two Type C 1910-vintage lamps flanking entrance of 1 Hanover Square downtown Well, your webmaster is never gonna get rich writing about lampposts, taking pictures of lampposts, or leading lamppost tours. This was the most sparsely attended ForgottenTour since Tour #4 in St. George, Staten Island, November 1999 — 3 people were on that one, [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 34, Manhattan/Brooklyn Bridges, Manhattan/Brooklyn

    June 8, 2008
    Tags:Bridges, Brooklyn, Manhattan

    Your webmaster has a history with the Manhattan Bridge – much more than the Brooklyn, as it turns out. As a kid I lived along the BMT 4th Avenue line, the R (local) and N (express) with the West End (then, the B) crashing the party at the 36th Street station, and (what was then) the [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 33, Gravesend, Brooklyn

    April 14, 2008
    Tags:Brooklyn, Gravesend

    ForgottenFans at Lady Moody House, Gravesend Neck Road, Gravesend, Brooklyn April 20, 2008: With a turnout that rivalled FNY’s most-attended tour, Brooklyn Between the Bridges in October 2003, over 50 ForgottenFans turned out on an overcast day with drizzle expected (after an extraordinary run of good weather for early ForgottenTours, clouds and rain have become an inevitability the [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 32, Hicks Street/Atlantic Avenue/Grant Square, Brooklyn

    September 16, 2007
    Tags:Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

    September 16, 2007 actually dawned sunny and bright–extremely unusual conditions for a ForgottenTour. When things got started the atmosphere came to its senses and dark clouds rolled in to cover an unusually cool day for September in NYC with the temperature not budging higher than 65 degrees. ForgottenFans welcomed the change, though, after the usual lengthy [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 31, Little Neck/Douglaston, Queens

    August 5, 2007
    Tags:Douglaston, Little Neck, Queens

    ForgottenTours have been, for the past year and a half, typically held under threatening skies, but the weather for the scheduled Tour 31 on July 29, 2007 not only threatened, but delivered, forcing a move to the following Sunday, August 5th. It was perhaps the nicest day of the month so far and so, in a [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 30, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

    June 10, 2007
    Tags:Brooklyn, Greenpoint

    Anything Can Happen® on a ForgottenTour. There was the time we wound up in the Dominican Day Parade on the Grand Concourse in a downpour and ended up in a bar on Bainbridge Avenue, watching David Cone pitch a perfect game (Tour 2). We bumped into since-disgraced Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin at the Latimer House in Flushing, [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 29, Green-Wood Cemetery Part 2, Brooklyn

    April 13, 2007
    Tags:Brooklyn, Green-Wood, Green-Wood Cemetery

    Well, your webmaster finally made the team picture after 29 ForgottenTours. Can you spot where I am?* As usual, despite sunny weather predicted all week, ForgottenTour Day turned out cloudy, chance of showers. At least on 2007′s Green-Wood Cemetery tour, I didn’t have any hecklers, like I did on the 2006 tour! 30 ForgottenFans and I investigated [...]

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  • ForgottenTour 28, Juniper Valley-Middle Village, Queens

    April 1, 2007
    Tags:Middle Village, Queens

    April 1, 2007, didn’t fool 48 ForgottenFans…second-most ever on a ForgottenTour (the prize goes to the 56 who turned up for Tour 14 in Dumbo, October 2003)…who turned up for FNY’s jaunt through Middle Village and Juniper Park. We were aided by FNY Correspondent Christina, the Queen of Queens, and Bob Holden, President of the Juniper Park Civic Association. [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 26, Westchester Square-Parkchester

    September 9, 2006
    Tags:Bronx, Parkchester

    Tour 26 occurred during an auspicious week in Forgotten NY-land….the release, at long last, of the Forgottenbook and a cover appearance for the site in Time Out New York! No one told the rain gods that weather for the tour was supposed to be sunny and bright, however, so it was under windy, threatening skies that Tour #26 commenced [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 25, Southern Central Park, Manhattan

    August 6, 2006
    Tags:Central Park, Manhattan

    ForgottenTour 25, August 6, 2006, was our very first evening tour and went very well despite your webmaster’s same-day ascension and descension of his building’s steps 4 times to clean his apartment and spending six hours on his feet before, during and after the tour. This was ill-advised, since the following day a painful back ailment [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 24, Green-Wood Cemetery Part 1, Brooklyn

    April 8, 2006
    Tags:Brooklyn, Green-Wood, Green-Wood Cemetery

    Forgotten Fans wave with Minerva In what was undoubtedly the best weather ever for a ForgottenTour (sunny and 68) forty Forgotten fans (and one heckler!) converged on Brooklyn’s Green-Wood cemetery, a peaceful respite since 1838 as one of the first ‘rural cemteries’ or burial parks in America. Previously burials had been done in churches or in [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 23, Roosevelt Island, Manhattan

    November 8, 2005
    Tags:Manhattan, Roosevelt Island

    37 Forgotten fans turned out on a 65-degree November Sunday for ForgottenTour 23 in Roosevelt Island. Unlike last time at South Street Seaport when we were besieged by detours and transit delays, things got off on time and everyone was treated to fine weather and plenty of historic buildings and ruins… Many Forgotteners had never ridden on [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 22, South Street Seaport area, Manhattan

    September 8, 2005
    Tags:Fulton Street, Manhattan, Seaport

    Forgotten Fans pose at the Wavertree, one of the Seaport’s museum ships, built in Southampton, England in 1885. Despite massive subway problems, the presence of the Breast Cancer Walk and the Indian Festival, Tour 22 in the South Street Seaport area went off without a hitch, albeit just a little late. All proceeds from this tour went [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 21, Flushing, Queens

    August 8, 2005
    Tags:Flushing, Queens

    Forgotten Fans at Kingsland Manor I’M NOT certain if I have ever made peace with living in Flushing. I moved here in 1993, to be closer to a long-gone job, and there always seems to be somewhere I’d rather be. Bay Ridge, where I came from, perhaps. Hoboken. Sunnyside Gardens. Bayside. Riverdale (where I turned down [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 20, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

    April 7, 2005
    Tags:Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

    Tour 20 in April 2005 was host to about fifty Forgotten Fans in the land of your webmaster’s upbringing. Expected showers never appeared. This tour was lengthier than most, since Bay Ridge‘s sights are spread out over about 40 blocks, but that just made the rest and the eats after the tour that much better. Our tour [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 19, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens

    February 5, 2005
    Tags:Flushing, Flushing Meadows, Queens

    IT WAS A DAY with air so crisp, it almost broke off in your fingers. And there is no better weather than to explore the 1939 and 1964 World’s Fair remnants at vast Flushing Meadows-Corona Park on a day between the snowstorms. 40 Forgotten Fans had the same idea.   Where’s Walsho? Alone at the Fair, awaiting Forgotteners. Photo: [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 18, Harlem Heights and City College, Manhattan

    December 14, 2004
    Tags:Harlem Heights, Manhattan

    Once again into the breach and this time, 40+ Forgotten Fans assembled at the 145th Street IND concourse on December 12th for our second mass invasion of Harlem, this time to Harlem Heights and City College. In the tradition of two past tours, we had a guest narrator, Forgotten Fan Sergio Kadinsky, handling the tour honors [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 17, Lower Manhattan

    July 1, 2004
    Tags:Financial District, Manhattan

    There’s a lot of Forgotten stuff the guidebooks want nothing to do with right under the noses of Wall Street brokers and Statue of Liberty-bound Iowans right down at the tip of Manhattan Island. We hadn’t done a Manhattan Forgottentour south of 34th Street so it was time for a Lower Manhattan march. A crowd of [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 16, New Brighton, Staten Island

    May 24, 2004
    Tags:New Brighton, Stapleton, Staten Island

    S.R. Smith Infirmary, New Brighton, Staten Island HEY, you missed a good one. Twenty Forgotten fans…a lower total than most recent tours…visited Tompkinsville and New Brighton, two of Staten Island’s more venerable small towns, seeing its collection of Victorian-era “gingerbread” mansions, unusual architecture, abandoned relics, and ending at Snug Harbor, originated by Robert R. Randall in the [...]

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  • S.R. Smith Infirmary

    May 24, 2004
    Tags:New Brighton, Staten Island

    On ForgottenTour 16, Forgotten Fan Monica D. entered the abandoned S.R. Smith Infirmary in New Brighton, Staten Island and snagged some scenes of the gutted interior, risking her health in the process. I’m just glad she survived because I’ve been in some of these abandoned hulks, and not only do you face cave-ins, you also have [...]

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  • St. George Theatre

    May 24, 2004
    Tags:St. George, Staten Island, theatres

    In late 2003 I was sent some beautiful shots of the interior of the St. George Theater near the ferry in Staten Island, by Gregor and Elizabeth Way, who have been active in the preservation of the theater. Built in the late 20s, the St. George takes a back seat to no other magnificent movie palace [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 15, Jamaica’s Prospect Cemetery and King Mansion, Queens

    March 21, 2004
    Tags:Jamaica, Queens

    March 21st, 2004: About thirty Forgotten Fans met in (extremely) windy Jamaica, Queens and toured a 4-acre, 350-year old cemetery and an over 250-year old mansion in the geographic center of Queens. Cate Ludlam, president of the Prospect Cemetery Association, shows off a hand-lettered tombstone from 1728. Cate has been involved with the cemetery, in which is interred [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 14, Brooklyn Between The Bridges

    October 25, 2003
    Tags:Brooklyn, DUMBO

    On October 25, 2003, 56 Forgotten fans…our largest turnout to date…roamed through what used to be called Downtown Brooklyn, an industrial region blessed with spectacular views of two of the most spectacular bridges in the world. Follow us as we explore DUMBO, Vinegar Hill and Fulton Ferry. After two previous low-rated weather Forgotten Tours, we had [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 13, Red Hook, Brooklyn

    May 31, 2003
    Tags:Brooklyn, Red Hook

    Spring 2003′s relentless rain did not deter the busiest Forgottentour season to date on May 31, 2003 as nearly 40 Forgotten Fans set forth on a day of exploration in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a gritty outpost nestled between the Gowanus Expressway and the Buttermilk Channel. Film historian and freelance writer Mike Olshan was our Virgil in the [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 12, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

    May 11, 2003
    Tags:Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan

    HELL’S KITCHEN Conducted in glorious drizzle and rain, about 20 Forgotten fans visited several surprising scenes in Hell’s Kitchen, that formerly nefarious Times Square back yard running from about 34th Street north to 57th and from 8th Avenue to the Hudson. On this tour, Your Webmaster was demoted to a mere tourist as longtime Hell’s Kitchen [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 11, Wave Hill, Riverdale, Bronx

    April 27, 2003
    Tags:Bronx, Riverdale, Wave Hill

    On Sunday, April 27, 2003, twenty-five Forgotten fans arrived in Van Cortlandt Park at the end of the IRT #1 line and embarked on a voyage of discovery in Riverdale… Stopping first at the Van Cortlandt Park Station on the old New York Central PutnamBranch, we imagined what it would have been like to wait for [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 10, Coney Island, Brooklyn

    September 10, 2002
    Tags:Brooklyn, Coney Island

    I’ll admit it, I love Coney Island, and I wasn’t even there during its prime days of infamy, er, popularity, from 1920, when the BMT Subway arrived, till after World War II. For our tenth Forgottoners Tour, we took a walk on Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk and took a look at some of the attractions [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 9, City Island, Bronx

    May 23, 2002
    Tags:Bronx, City Island

    City Island, NY was the site of Forgottoners Tour #9. Located on a spit of an island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area. Originally a part of Pelham, in Westchester County, City Island looks east to Long [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 7, Inwood Hill Park, Manhattan

    October 23, 2000
    Tags:Inwood, Manhattan

    On October 28, 2000, one of the most beautiful days ever for a Forgotten tour, we met at the 215th Street station, one of the original IRT stations on its elevated section north of Dyckmen Street. But before meeting the other 20 Forgottoners (and one pooch), I made some observations on my own… The Dyckman Street [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 6, Flushing, Queens

    June 22, 2000
    Tags:Flushing, Queens

    Though Your Webmaster has resided in Flushing since 1993, I hadn’t yet taken advantage of its many historical dwellings and locales, many of which are unknown by Flushing’s thousands of residents. On a hot, humid June afternoon, a couple dozen Forgotten Fans and I decided to remedy the situation… No, this is not the next batch of “Survivor” [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 5, Harlem, Manhattan

    January 22, 2000
    Tags:Harlem, Manhattan

    Saturday, January 29th was sunny, cold and blustery, about what you’d expect on that date. Snow and ice crunched underfoot as over a dozen Forgotten Fans set out from the Lenox (Malcolm X Boulevard) Avenue and 125th Street IRT station. The Lenox Lounge displays the best in neon signs on the outside and the coolest jazz on [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 4, St. George, Staten Island

    October 22, 1999
    Tags:Brooklyn, Coney Island, Sea Gate

    In early November the Forgottoners Tour swung through Staten Island. In St. George, New Brighton, Grymes Hill and Stapleton we saw dozens of beautiful buildings dating back to the 1850s or earlier, climbed hills from which you could see mountains, and saw a few surprises along the way as well. People who ride the Staten Island Ferry [...]

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  • Forgotten Tour 3, Coney Island, Brooklyn

    October 1, 1999
    Tags:Brooklyn, Coney Island, Sea Gate

    In early fall some Forgotten Fans enjoyed a walk through Coney Island in which relics of its former glory and promises, perhaps, of its future regeneration were recorded. Our tour definitely had an offbeat aspect. Here’s some of what we got to see: The Coney Island Theater Building was built in 1925 and once housed a Loew’s [...]

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  • A WALK DOWN BROADWAY

    June 17, 1999
    Tags:Brooklyn

    What ads did Forgotten Fans find on a five-hour journey down Brooklyn’s Broadway? What ads DIDN’T they find? A recent walk by about a dozen intrepid Forgotten Fans down Broadway (turned out to be ForgottenTour #1) plunged the participants into a thoroughly fascinating land where advertisements and relics of the past 100 years rub elbows against [...]

    Categorized in: Ads Tours Tagged with: Brooklyn

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