2018

The Episcopal St. Mary’s Church, West 126th Street between Old Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue,  is in many ways the heart of Manhattanville. It was first organized in 1823 as a branch church of…

I have been bicycling in earnest again since mid-2017, though I take a few months off during the cold months since I don’t like battling headwinds. I still stick to…

Continued from Part 1 On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The map of Staten Island is filled with former “company towns” such as Linoleumville, Kreischerville, Port Mobil, and Port Ivory. Then there’s Graniteville, which was…

As recent FNY readers know, I went to work temporarily recently in the same building where I began my career in typesetting and the printed word over thirty years ago…

Pembroke Avenue runs for two blocks in Little Neck in Queens, from Little Neck Parkway east to Glenwood Street just south of Northern Boulevard, whereupon it plunges further east into University…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to parks that are less than an acre in size, such spaces are usually designated as squares, triangles, malls, gores, and…

The casual visitor to Sunnyside might assume that Lowery’s Wine Factory on Queens Boulevard between 40th and 41st Street was named for the original owner. Never assume anything in Queens;…

On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR station in Woodside and…

I couldn’t get to everything on last week’s World’s Fair Remnants tour, so here’s one item we overlooked. Located on a rather out-of-the-way path between the Hall of Science and…

Until the 1910s and ’20s Ridgewood was suburban and nearly rural in some spots, with farms and sprawling country homes, but developers Paul Stier and Gustave X. Mathews made marks…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the southeastern corner of the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is a set of mounds with footstones citing biblical verses under the…