2018

While most of NYC’s Jews belong to the Ashkenazim (German) or the Sephardim (Spain-Portugal) there is a third faction, the Romaniotes, whose roots go back to Greece. This, the only Romaniote…

I have long been curious about Ozone Park, especially in the region around Cross Bay Boulevard north of the Belt Parkway. It was easily reachable for me via bicycle from…

The Lower East Side of Manhattan, roughly defined by East Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the…

I was staggering across the Pulaski Bridge across the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek one recent afternoon, near-crazed from the abominable 85-degree heat and pounding sun, when I was privileged…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook has been the subject of numerous Forgotten-NY photo essays over the years. On account of its geographic isolation,…

I was fascinated with this view I got through a slight opening in a plywood fence on 32nd Street north of 38th Avenue in Astoria. I have no idea how…

It’s not mentioned often but Astoria and its neighbor Ravenswood were once a hotbed for silk manufacture and production. Several remaining buildings scattered over the region are former silk production…

The late great Tommy Keene had a great song called “Places that Are Gone,” about what you’d expect. Periodically I go over my stash of Forgotten New York images between…

Tucked away at #400 West 148th Street off St. Nicholas Avenue is a bit of New York City music history. The 400 Tavern operated at this address from the 1940s…

I’m not sure if I’ll ever get out to Los Angeles again… I have visited twice, 28 years apart, in 1962 (when I was four and have little recollection) and…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years it has been the norm in New York to demap streets by transforming them into plazas, or to give them “road…

I’ve always been attracted to collonnaded architecture and my “jones” is partially fulfilled on West 13th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue where there is a former church that has…