Woodside is, perhaps, best known by NYC commuters as a major interchange of the Long Island Rail Road — the only other station in addition to Pennsylvania Station where all major…
Yearly Archives
2018
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A classic picture of Deep Queens here at 51st Avenue looking west from Jacobus Street, an intersection only Elmhurstians might know. It is an eastern extension of Maurice Avenue, which…
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While stumbling around Woodside and avoiding the ice patches on the sidewalks that Queens property owners refused to clean, I arrived at a cluster of familiar-looking apartment houses on either…
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Continued from Page 1 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…
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A consequence of the construction of various bridges connecting Staten Island to surrounding territories has been the end of its myriad of ferry services. The empire of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…
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In 2009, the Department of Transportation posted a Lincoln Highway sign in the maroon color generally used to denote NYC Landmarked districts at West 42nd Street and Broadway in Times…
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St. George, Staten Island was named not for the Roman noble, later martyred, who in fable slew a dragon, but rather for a land baron named George Law, who had acquired Staten…
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Standing on Avenue V just west of 86th Street in Gravesend is one of NYC’s very few decorative structures associated with its sewers, all due respects for the gigantic…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Throughout the city there are hilltops sticking into the skyline and capes pointing into the war that were once fortified. Some still have their…
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While making my way around Greenpoint in December 2017 (the full journey will turn up on FNY at length) I noticed several items around the neighborhood bestowed with the title…
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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 Village into the Meatpacking…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While driving through Cypress Hills and East New York I passed by what looked like an abandoned castle. In this section of the city,…