EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…

In October I took advantage of the preternaturally balmy and clear weather (Central Park recorded .01″ of rain the entire month) and walked through Chelsea and The West Village, catching…

I took a stroll in Flushing Meadows in September 2024 and noted the absolutely decrepit conditions of the sidewalk mosaic medallions located surrounding Dinkins Plaza at the park’s entrance at…

HERE’S the Fei Long Market on 8th Avenue between 63rd and 64th Street. If you’re of a certain age you recall 8th Avenue and 64th Street for the 2001 Odyssey…

THOUGH most of Queens’ streets, except lengthy main roads such as Northern Boulevard, Queens Boulevard, etc. were numbered beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, some outmoded names continued to show…

CEMETERIES have been popular ForgottenTour locales over the years; the inhabitants tend to be quiet, so my narration goes uninterrupted. FNY has visited the cemeteries of central Queens, both downtown…

As some know, I have “found a home” (as much as I find any workplace “home”) at biographical publisher Marquis Who’s Who, where I format and edit biographies, working at…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In Manhattan, open space is nearly nonexistent, with the sky as its frontier for growth. Universities on this island with vertical campuses include CUNY’s Baruch…

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…