2018

Leaving Citifield after a Mets game in April, I spotted something unusual in the Corona subway yards serving the IRT Flushing Line that runs between Hudson Yards and Flushing Main…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Whenever a boulevard or highway slashes through the street grid, triangular parcels that are too small to develop are assigned to the Parks Department,…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent As I often do, I come across material for FNY by happenstance.  I had just exited the Manhattan Bridge, upper level, made a right…

For decades, the Department of Transportation hadn’t marked Depew Place, which today exists as an alley on East 45th Street under the Park Avenue Viaduct as it snakes its way…

At first hearing, “Culloden and Digby” sounds like a heavily-advertised TV law firm, or perhaps a brand of Worcestershire sauce, but they are actually a pair of streets in Woodhaven…

Parsons Boulevard is one of Queens’ lengthier roads, although NYC’s various traffic agencies and city planners haven’t shown it a great amount of respect. It begins way up north in…

When I first moved to Flushing in 1993 I marveled at a pair of very high towers visible looking toward the southern horizon from 43rd Avenue and 162nd Street. They…

Here’s a photo of the east end of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, where it meets Northern Boulevard at 155th Street and a shopping mall. For a number of reasons, I…

I have to admit, this one fooled me just a little. Several years ago I was wandering on Mundy Lane, the road separating the Bronx’s Eastchester neighborhood from Mount Vernon,…

Small wrapped “Baby Watson” cheesecakes were a staple at NYC grocery checkout counters until 2013, when the company that produced them, D’Aiuto, bit the dust, and along with it, their…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent In New York City, many name brands have come and gone over the years.  Chobani yogurt, Whole Foods, Dunkin’ Donuts and Yelp.com, to name…

Continued from Part 1 Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had…