WHILE taking a daily walk around Terrace Gardens, a development just over the Nassau line near my own Westmoreland Gardens, I found the remains of a Dole-Kemp campaign sticker. Longtime…
-
-
EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…
-
I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…
-
JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…
-
MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…
-
I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…
-
I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…
-
EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…
-
It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…
-
THE Abbey Tavern, at 3rd Avenue and East 26th Street near Gramercy Park, is one of many Irish pubs in the general area, but it is named for a much,…
-
PERHAPS McSorley’s, Fanelli’s, the Old Town Bar, and the Ear Inn are more chronicled in the city’s lore and literature (at least they have in Forgotten NY) , but the Grand…
-
In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…