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A note from ForgottenFan Ron Bollerman: I wanted to write and thank you for your page on “Mott Haven”. It helped me to find a building that my great, great grandfather owned – the Bollermann & Son Piano Factory. Their business ran from 1890 to approx. 1915 at 132nd Street and Lincoln Avenue. We have an old [...]
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Some more golden goodies from Brooklyn…. Photo: Gary Fonville Though Fulton Street in downtown Brooklyn has tried hard to homogenize and mall-ify itself over the last 20 years, a quick glance skyward along its antiquated upper stories is like taking a trip back in time. Here, we see a former London Shoe store and, [...]
During a long summer I’ve been unable to visit as many Forgotten scenes as I’d like. To the rescue comes Forgotten Fan Gary Fonville, an MTA bus driver who gets to see many Forgotten corners of the city as yet unvisited by your webmaster. Gary has supplied us on this occasion with a new cache of [...]
Once one of New York’s most notorious slums, Hell’s Kitchen has made a comeback but some of its ancient ads remain. Hell’s Kitchen, the area west of 8th Avenue and between 30th Street and 59th Street, used to be one of the city’s most notorious slums. It was one of the roughest, toughest districts in [...]
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