Guest post PAUL SHARROTTStaten Island Historian I just came across an article in the New Yorker by Joseph Mitchell, published in1956 about him exploring along the southern part of Staten…
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BACK In September 2022 I took a train to 15th Street/Prospect Park and walked through the park, eventually winding up at Barclays Center. I had been feeling “off” for awhile,…
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REVISITING a long-gone Forgotten New York item from the dim past, my thoughts turned to the long-vanished Enchant(ed) Villages of Greenpoint, an art installation on Herbert and North Henry near…
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NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…
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FOR my item on Fr. Joseph Martusciello Way in Woodhaven the other day, I mentioned that it was unusual to find someone I knew on a city street sign. Here’s…
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TODAY I’ll mention a street of barely any consequence that I decided to cover while I was meandering around in the neighborhood, Boyce Avenue, one of Queens’ relatively few named…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens…
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I don’t often find people I knew on street signs, but one exception is at St. Thomas Church in Woodhaven at the corner of 88th Avenue and 88th Street, which…
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ONE day, I’ll do a thorough look at the streets in northern Tribeca as I haven’t written about that area much. Unlike other parts of Tribeca and neighboring Soho, these…
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THE grand Manhattan Bridge plaza, which fronts the Bowery at Canal Street, was completed in 1916 and is the design of John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings, who also built the New York…
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I squeezed off this photo while awaiting for the crowd to assemble for a Forgotten NY tour across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in June 2008. Forgotten NY tours were…
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In November and December it struck me that I had never walked Bell Boulevard all the way from north to south, despite living in eastern Queens in Flushing and Little…
