2018

I haven’t been able to get outside NYC much… unemployment gives me the time, but not the money. However, I have ambitions of expanding Forgotten New York to include the…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Over the years, throughout the NYC subway system, there have been many instances of the perceived or actual need to close subway entrances/exits.   In…

Continued from Part 1 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent I’ve never climbed Everest, or Denali, but locally I can brag about scaling Mount Marcy, the state’s highest point; Todt Hill on Staten Island…

Domesticated birds of prey such as falcons, hawks and eagles can be trained to locate prey for human owners. Falconers train their namesake bird while austringers train hawks and eagles. Red-tailed hawks…

You’re looking at an increasingly vanishing lamppost specimen located at 5th Ave. and E. 61st Street, in front of the Pierre luxury skyscraper hotel. Slotted Donald Deskey lampposts, designed by…

The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company used to be a big deal. If you look at postcards showing NYC neighborhood scenes in the early 20th Century, a Horton’s ice cream…

Louis Mattia ran a lamp repair shop on 2nd Avenue off East 52nd Street from 1960 to 1995. His impressive aqua green sidewalk sign, with gold serif lettering and PL(aza)…

By MARIE CARTER The train rumbles through Williamsburg to Bushwick, before exiting into the bright light of day where Most Holy Trinity Cemetery becomes instantly visible. The cemetery is situated…

Forgotten Fan Rolando Pujol provided this shot of a small shack on East 180th Street just east of Crotona Avenue and the ancient neon Crotona TV sign. The neon has…

A sign advertising a long-ago NFL football game appears atop 1261 Broadway between West 31st and 32nd Streets, which runs through to 6th Avenue. The ad runs across the length…

I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights from 12 to 8,…