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Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Forgotten New York Walks, a new FNY category and the first since FNY Slices was instituted in July 2007. Walks will feature what the title indicates, a walk from one neighborhood to the other — especially when the two neighborhoods are completely disparate. In 2007 I [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Astoria Grand Central Manhattan Queens Roosevelt Island
My fascination with the NYC subway’s infrastructure continues unabated and my love affair with the subways remains unrequited. That is made clear every weekend, when the MTA runs most lines completely differently than it does during the week. The subways are now over 105 years old (some lines are, at least) and while the sensible notion [...]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Borough Hall Broad Channel Bronx Brooklyn Central Park Grand Concourse Inwood Kensington Manhattan Mott Haven Roosevelt Island Wanamaker’s Washington Heights
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 [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tours Tagged with: Manhattan Roosevelt Island
I USUALLY return to my old pages unannounced. If I have something new on a certain subject I usually just drop it in without really notifying anyone; one day, you’re looking at a page, and the next, why there’s been something added. Keeps people coming back again and again. But when I revisited Roosevelt Island six years [...]
Categorized in: Neighborhoods Street Scenes Tagged with: Manhattan Roosevelt Island
Written in 2003, the last year tokens were used for revenue service…. Turnstiles, as well as tokens, have changed radically over the years. Turnstiles predated tokens; the first nickel-operated turnstiles appeared at the 1939 World’s Fair station on the Flushing Line (today’s #7 train.) Tokens of varying sizes and appearances have been used for fare collection in [...]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Subways & Trains Tagged with: Manhattan Roosevelt Island tram
