I had every intention of doing a ForgottenTour in Fort Greene in June 2016, but a bad back got in the way and I never rescheduled it. Perhaps in…
Yearly Archives
2018
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For a long time I have been interested in the terra cotta plaques on Intermediate School 234 in Tribeca, that depict scnes of a long-gone Manhattan era including the old…
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Continued from Part 1 Shortly before Christmas, and before an extended freezing spell that began the day after Christmas, I took the ferry across Upper New York Bay to Staten…
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When I began riding the Long Island Rail Road on a daily basis in 1992 for a job in Port Washington, the M3 car you see here, first built in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Black History Month in mind, there are plenty of monuments, streets, and parks around the city named after noteworthy African American individuals. Keeping…
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It looks like the time has come to say sayonara to a relatively unchronicled and unappreciated genre of lampposts I call the New Gumballs because of their spherical shape and resemblance…
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From the Bob Mulero archives comes this photo of the Excelsior Power Company Building, 33 Gold Street between Fulton and John Streets, where Gold meets the tiny Edens Alley. It…
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It might be time to begin saying goodbye to the R-46 subway car, which currently works the A, F and R subway lines; in fact the A fleet is still…
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Shortly before Christmas, and before an extended freezing spell that began the day after Christmas, I took the ferry across Upper New York Bay to Staten Island and walked a…
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Today, January 28, 2018, is the 32nd anniversary of the failure of the NASA shuttle Challenger, which catastrophically broke apart shortly after takeoff on 1/28/1986. “NASA managers had known since 1977…
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The impressive townhouse at 124 East 55th between Park and Lexington was built around 1910 and is known as the Mary Hale Cunningham House, after its original owner. However, the…
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104-11 39th Avenue in Corona is one of a pair of Italianate-style houses just east of the Queens Library Corona branch building located on 39th Avenue a block north of the…