In 2009, the Department of Transportation posted a Lincoln Highway sign in the maroon color generally used to denote NYC Landmarked districts at West 42nd Street and Broadway in Times Square. Like Route 66, the old Lincoln Highway has mostly been decommissioned or goes by different names now, but it was once the sole vehicular […]
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Tag Archives: Times Square
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LINCOLN HIGHWAY, Times Square
February 16, 2018Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Lincoln Highway Manhattan Times Square
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KEAL’S CARRIAGES, 1998
March 9, 2017This ancient painted ad, which appeared at Duffy Square, Broadway and West 47th Street, in 1998 after the demolition of a corner building, was among Forgotten NY’s many mothers and fathers. When I became aware of it in a news report, I sensed there was a niche for NYC ephemera such as old painted ads, […]
Categorized in: Ads One Shots Tagged with: Duffy Square Manhattan Times Square
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POWERS BUILDING, Midtown
February 16, 2016Dazedly dodging Times Square crowds in the numbing cold of mid-February I found myself at 7th Avenue and West 46th Street, home on the ground floor at least to the TSQ Brasserie, which, I gather, has absolutely nothing to do with the other restaurants in Midtown named “Brasserie,” and there are a number of them […]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: Mnahattan Times Square
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DUFFY SQUARE BUILDING, Midtown
February 15, 2016During recent scuttlings in the Midtown area, I passed right through Times Square, a place I’m rarely spotted, because in general, crowds don’t much interest me. This particular morning the temperature was below zero and had struggled to ten above by midday, and thus the crowds were a bit diminished, but by no means absent. […]
Categorized in: Ads One Shots Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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REVISITING KEAL’S, Times Square
July 22, 2015The southwest corner of Broadway and West 47th Street at Duffy Square was a very important spot for Forgotten NY in its very early days in March 1999 when the site launched. Under those billboards and screens (this was shot in May 2010, so they have changed since then) are some brand new buildings, but […]
Categorized in: Ads One Shots Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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HOTEL LONGACRE, Times Square Area
February 15, 2015Categorized in: Ads One Shots Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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HIDING IN TIMES SQUARE
September 5, 2014
There’s been an added emphasis this summer on one of the very first things I ever examined for Forgotten NY when I began this thing in 1999 — the locked door at the west end of the north Times Square Shuttle platform, with the mysterious word “Knickerbocker” emossed over it. This, of course, was a […]
Categorized in: One Shots Subways & Trains Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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MUSIC ROW, West 48th Street
June 3, 2014I seem to be becoming one of NYC’s great Langoliers, one of those mysterious yet relentless entities written of by Stephen King that arrive after each moment in time has passed, disposing of time and everything in it like garbage disposal units. Or rather, I happen upon things that the Langoliers have somehow missed after […]
Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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ANOTHER TIMES SQUARE RELIC
August 27, 2013Many urbanophiles are aware of the Door to Nowhere on the north Times Square Shuttle platform, emblazoned with the word “Knickerbocker” that long ago opened to a staircase leading directly to the Knickerbocker Hotel, which stood above the station. However, if you walk to the other end of the same platform, you will find, near […]
Categorized in: One Shots Tagged with: doors Manhattan Times Square
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NYC’S CABLE-STAYED BRIDGES Part 2
June 10, 2012CONTINUED FROM PART 1 In Part One of my quest to walk between both of Manhattan’s cable-stayed bridges, I meandered from Rockefeller University on the East River just north of the Queensboro (that is the only name I call that bridge) west through the Fifties, passing several unsung landmarks such as the Central Synagogue, DuMont Tower, […]
Categorized in: Walks Tagged with: Hell's Kitchen Manhattan Times Square
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The Aged of TIMES SQUARE
February 3, 2012Categorized in: Forgotten Slices Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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OLD 42, remnants of the old Deuce, Manhattan
September 14, 2008Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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DEUCE (42nd STREET), Manhattan
June 24, 2006Categorized in: Neighborhoods Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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WHO ARE THOSE GUYS (AND GALS) Part 4, Midtown
June 30, 2002Welcome to Forgotten NY’snewest installment of “Who Are Those Guys & Gals” in which we investigate statues of real people in Manhattan. Some are instantly recognizable, some are not recognizable at all, but if you’ve ever wondered who they are…you came to the right place… CONTINUED FROM PART 3 (1855-1929) Location: 2 Penn Plaza Sculptor: Adolph […]
Categorized in: Street Scenes Tagged with: Bryant Park Manhattan Midtown statues Times Square
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SNIFFEN COURT. Historic Manhattan alleys
April 23, 1999Nestled in prosperous Murray Hill on East 36th Street between 3rd and Lexington is one of the few alleys of the midtown area. Sniffen Court was constructed between 1850 and 1860 and consists of ten handsome brick carriage houses protected behind a locked iron gate. The carriage houses were built by architect John Sniffen and […]
Categorized in: Alleys Tagged with: Cooper Square Hell’s Kitchen Kips Bay Manhattan Murray Hill Times Square Turtle Bay Upper East Side
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KEAL’S CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY
May 4, 1998In 1998, a demolition in Duffy Square allowed an ancient (ca. 1880) advertisement for horse and buggy carriages to come to light in the now-high tech, Disneyfied area. In 1998, passersby ignore recently revealed history on Broadway. The recent demolition of the Central Theatre, built in 1877, on the SW corner of Broadway and 47th Street […]
Categorized in: Ads Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square
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THE DOOR TO NOWHERE
May 3, 1998Next time you are taking the Times Square Shuttle toward Grand Central, walk toward the northern end of the platform. You’ll find a locked door with the word “Knickerbocker” above it. What could it be? Where does the door go? Behind the door is a corridor which led up to the rear lobby of the Knickerbocker Hotel at […]
Categorized in: Subways & Trains Tagged with: Manhattan Times Square