2018

When I began Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of original Type F castirons around, at far flung locations such as SUNY Maritime campus at Fort Schuyler…

This section of a Hyde map of the northeast Bronx shows a small area called The Kernels. Its pedigree goes back to the colonial era when a Cornelius Jones, known as…

In March 2018, I marched from the Tremont Ave. IND subway station at the Grand Concourse east on its titular avenue all the way to the Bruckner Expressway, where I…

Astoria’s architecture is anything but boring. You never know what you will run into on its side streets, from townhouses, ons-story single family homes, huge apartment buildings, Art Deco churches.…

I was reminded of Astoria’s past when making my way up 32nd Street during the week. A pair of apartment buildings at 31-15 and 31-19, between 3rd Avenue and Broadway,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the south side of Prospect Park is a 40-acre superblock that opened shortly after the park and designated as a military parade ground.…

You would not expect to find an English country church smack in the middle of bustling “boogiedown” Bronx under an elevated train, but here’s one in Fordham, at Jerome Avenue…

Eleven lanes wide from 161st Street north to Mosholu, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse (shortened to Grand Concourse for the benefit of sign makers and cabbies) was conceived by engineer Louis Risse…

The weather in May 2018 was resolutely terrible; May has a reputation for warm, sunny spring weather, but in recent years, fronts have hung up around here, spelling days of…

Like much of the subways the BMT Brighton Line, which runs generally between East 15th and 16th Streets from Prospect Park south to Coney Island, has a complicated history. It…

This gilded, ornate street clock is perhaps the most magnificent still existing in New York City. It was installed in 1909, at the same time 200 5th Avenue, in front of…

One of my most favorite ForgottenTours I ever did was in the summer of 2008. I did a Lamppost Tour of Lower Manhattan, accompanied by NYC’s King of Lampposts, Bob…