As a rule, NYC streets are given designations, seemingly arbitrarily, by the engineer who is plotting the map years before buildings on the streets are actually constructed. In Manhattan, with…

I am in a slight rush this AM and otherwise got nuthin’, so here’s a fine plastic-lettered sign at #765 Grand Street at Humboldt for what was once Grand Cleaners.…

FOLLOWING a relative period of inactivity due to various ailments, I have been gradually getting back into the swing and visiting realms where I haven’t appeared in recent years. One…

NEW York City’s fire alarms evolved greatly over the nearly 125 years they have been street corner staples. They seem to be the one Beaux Arts designed street fixtures that…

THE city’s many transportation options include bikes, boats, buses, subways, railroads, and the Roosevelt Island Tramway. The last item is the only aerial cable car in the city but not…

FOR my next “ForgottenTour Indoors” (this past week there was a well-received Zoom tour called FNY By the Seashore” in which I presented some out-of-the-way waterside communities like Dead Horse…

My forays into Manhattan’s Upper East Side have been shamefully few; only a handful of times in the 26+ years and counting of Forgotten New York. That’s why I was…

I was slouching down Knickerbocker Avenue in Bushwick in early May enjoying the mild conditions before dreaded heat and humidity would set in the next month. Various images from this…

FOR centuries, the constructed circle in Salisbury Plain that is Stonehenge has puzzled the public on its meaning and purpose. The culture that built it more than 5,000 years ago…

FORGIVE me for being behind the times, but that’s nothing new. I was puttering around Forest Hills this past weekend with two quarries in mind: get a photo of Forest…

SOMETIMES, walks determine their own endings. I felt like a walk in Prospect Park, where I hadn’t been for awhile (in my young years, things were more dangerous and so,…

THERE is a somewhat forlorn sign on a rusty lamppost on Frankfort Street half a block north of Gold Street beneath a ramp connecting East River Drive and the Brooklyn…