From the Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Seven Seas Restaurant, Surf Avenue at West 16th Street, in 1985. I don’t know much about the…
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It has been awhile since I did a long form page on Hudson River Park. I have not visited often: In 2011, ForgottenTour #50 walked it from the Battery all…
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Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…
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above photo: Gayle Alstrom WHEN I last visited Port Richmond, Staten Island in 2018, I noticed what appeared to be several very old painted ads that I hadn’t noticed before.…
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SIFTING through some photos from 2016, which seems like yesterday now, I came across a series I got in Port Richmond and West Brighton in December 2016 that included a…
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I don’t refer to it much but the longest tenure at any job I ever had was as a compositor at the Times Ledger chain of newspapers at an office…
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FROM the new Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Samuel Renne house, also known as the Big House and the Bretonniere house, which had been…
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In December 2025 I took a quick walk in the Rockefeller Center pedestrian passage beneath 6th Avenue for six blocks between 47th and 53rd Streets, accessible in its south end…
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In the early years of this website, Kevin Walsh returned to Atlantic Yards (Now known as Pacific Park) on many occasions, documenting the transformation of a railyard and former meatpacking…
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Continued from Part One I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing…
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I have not really been able to do a lengthy walk with the camera since around Thanksgiving 2025, for a variety of reasons that include increasing sensitivity to wind and…
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AQUEDUCT Walk in Fordham is seen here on West Fordham Road between University and Grand avenues. Back in June 2018 I walked a good deal of the walk, which in…