Visit Queens in the years 1920 to 1950!
Forgotten New York was the first-ever recipient of Outstanding New York City Website by the Guides Association of New York City in March 2015!
Forgotten New York is associated with the Greater Astoria Historical Society
200 sq ft. $650/month office - avail now!
Freshly painted, carpeted, new restrooms, professional/non-profit floor, most convenient location in western Queens, shopping restaurants across street,
includes shelving and desk, new carpet, and new air conditioner.
Elevator; Four blocks from N, R, Q, M service. 15 minutes from mid-town. 2 blocks from Kaufman Arts Center 
Now in its tenth year, Forgotten New York The Book is your bible to a New York City the other guidebooks won't touch.
After a re-examination of Bay Ridge’s 3rd Avenue in Bay Ridge in Part One, I continued along 3rd Avenue in its mid-section, under the elevated Gowanus Expressway in Sunset Park from 65th Street north to the Prospect Expressway, where some of 3rd Avenue seamlessly becomes Hamilton Avenue and the rest continues along to downtown Brooklyn. […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: 3rd Avenue Brooklyn Sunset Park
Three boroughs have a major road called 3rd Avenue: Manhattan’s 3rd Avenue runs from Cooper Square north to the Harlem River and officially extends into the Bronx as Third Avenue (it was so named when the elevated train was extended into the Bronx in the 1880s). The Bronx even has a second 3rd Avenue in […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Roads Street Scenes Tagged with: 3rd Avenue Bay Ridge Brooklyn
BOSTON may be known as the “Hub of the Universe” but the south Bronx has its very own Hub where four roads converge: East 149th Street and Willis, Melrose and Third Avenues, while Westchester Avenue begins its journey to Pelham Bay Park just a block to the north. Arrayed along Third is one of the […]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: 3rd Avenue Bronx Wesychester Avenue
It’s 1950 and on Third Avenue, the el trains rumbling overhead, like the Triceratops and Tyrannosaurs of the Cretaceous, are blissfully unmindful of their upcoming doom. The shrews, rats and moles scuttling about at the feet of the dinosaurs in that long-ago era were equally unaware of their coming hegemony, and the evolution of […]
Categorized in: Street Lamps Tagged with: 3rd Avenue 3rd Avenue El 6th Avenue Borough Park Bronx Brooklyn Bushwick Canarsie Cobble Hill Ditmas Park Harlem Manhattan Riverdale
