2018

It’s an oft told tale for Forgotten NY fans, so stop me if you’ve heard it before. For those who haven’t, you can see three rats scurrying up the struts supporting…

I had to make two trips to the Apple Store on 9th and West 14th to get an IPhone 6 unlocked, and then I had a new battery installed, since…

I was ambling along West 14th Street just outside the A/C/E/L train on 8th Avenue on my way to the Apple store on 9th to get my IPhone unlocked (I…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On a bend of the East River on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is a park named after this waterway and recently co-named after a…

I was staggering around Fort Greene on a mild February Saturday. The rain had not arrived but it was coming up fast. In my estimation, I had about an hour…

In January 2018 I had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the former St. Charles Seminary in Todt Hill, Staten Island, which incorporates the Ernest Flagg Estate and its…

From NYC King of Lampposts Bob Mulero’s collection comes this photo of a 1950s-era wall bracket map from somewhere on South Street; the street has maintained very few of its…

162nd Street in Flushing, my home base between 1993 and 2007,  was bookended by two ancient and hoary taverns, the Velvet Cup near Northern and Paddy Quinn’s, near Sanford. Quinn’s…

I’m not a smoker and I’m glad I never got started with it in any form, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, marijuana, any of it. That’s not to say I’m not attracted…

The Westinghouse MO-8 (some say OV-8) once lit NYC streets by the hundreds or perhaps thousands from 1962 to 1972. Known as “open-bottom” or “cutoff” luminaires, they were designed to illuminate…

Continued from Part 2 Strangely enough, though I have touched on Greenwich Street often (it runs from Battery Park up the West Side all the way through Tribeca and Greenwich…

The former Jamaica Savings Bank on Queens Boulevard and 56th Avenue exhibits phases, like the moon, depending on where you view it. Designed and built for Jamaica Savings Bank in…