BARREN Island, at one point, was an actual island at the south end of today’s Marine Park, but was landfilled to create what is now the Floyd Bennett airfield. In…

REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…

THIS is one of 22 nearly three-ton eagles that appeared on Penn Station’s exterior, now in Philadelphia. Lorraine B. Diehl, in her comprehensive history The Late Great Pennsylvania Station, in her description…

TAKE a look at the detailing on this lamp bracket found at Avenue L and East 99th Street in Canarsie. It once held a lightbulb surrounded by a conical orange…

NOT a whole lot of “faded ads” I found in the early days of Forgotten NY survive, but a pair on Jamaica Avenue between Marginal Street East and Vermont Avenue…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent SINCE the turn of the millennium, the city’s bridges have been subject to road diets, in which space was dedicated for bikes and pedestrians,…

As I was hanging around Trinity Cemetery in summer 2022, I happened upon the gravestone of Sidney Breese. The ornate inscription on the stone reads: Sidney Breese June 9, 1767Made…

RED HOOK is usually fairly decent at preserving its relics (despite the lack of action by the Landmarks Preservation Commission), with the exception of the dry docks since replaced by…

RECENTLY, my pal from my Macy’s era Tim Skoldberg pointed out that the universal peace symbol formed in bricks at the East 10th Street entrance of St. Mark’s Church at…

On the day after the 4th of July 2024 I made my only visit to Staten Island all year and puttered around the Stapleton area, specifically Van Duzer Street and…

I recently wandered north on Crescent Street in Queens all the way from Hunters Point to Ditmars. I had already done a short Crescent Street page back in 2011, but…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent walk on 12th Street, a block from the world’s largest used bookshop, I passed by a scaffolding-clad public school building dating to…