2018

I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

In the summer of 2011 I was walking in Bedford Park, Bronx when I spied an especially large schist outcropping at Creston Avenue and Minerva place, wedged between Jerome Avenue…

From the NYC Municipal Archives comes this image of a Depression-era ragpicker making his way along Batavia Street at New Chambers Street just north of the Brooklyn Bridge. If that…

From the NYC Municipal Archives (which has helpfully watermarked the photo by way of encouragement for you to buy the photo at their website without such obstruction) is this look…

As I usually do in December I rode the MTA’s “holiday special” trainset, which is a unit of older cars that the Transit Museum put together from its vintage car…

Horace Harding Boulevard was initially  developed as a through route from Elmhurst to Nassau County as Nassau Boulevard in the 1930s, and was later named for a financier and friend of NYC…

In 1975, I hit an inside the park grand slam in a wiffleball game in this place. I hit  drive to center and the kid who was out there needed…

Los Angeles lamppost buff Glen Norman points out that a “radial wave” incandescent luminaire survives in Pasadena, on Grand south of Bellefontaine. Los Angeles, while diligently converting to LED, has…

I haven’t been to the Hudson River waterfront in Washington Heights of late, and I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge had opened in September 2017. I hustled over…

by SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to African American history on the city’s map, the 2013 designation of South Road in Jamaica as Tuskegee Airmen Way was…

Continued from Part 1 I took a number of walks in mid-December before a 2+ week deep freeze set in after Christmas, and a few of these occurred on some…

For most of the 20th Century, between about 1915 and 1965, Manhattan and the Bronx were dominated by classic “humpback” street signs in navy blue (coincidentally NY Yankee colors) with…