2019 was Forgotten New York’s biggest year in quite a few, as the website’s 20th anniversary was celebrated by two feature articles in the New York Post (by Hana Alberts)…
Yearly Archives
2019
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I had last been in New Dorp and the Todt Hill, Staten Island area in January 2018 when I visited the Ernest Flagg Estate, which became St. Charles Seminary, with…
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I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…
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As Forgotten NY fans know by now, I’m fascinated with New York City’s infrastructure and despite the subway’s overall failings, I’ve always had a soft spot for subway infrastructure; I…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the section of Manhattan dubbed Two Bridges on some maps but known to local residents as part of the Lower East Side is a…
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My pal Sarah Celentano of the New-York Historical Society spent Christmas Eve 2019 at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and got some photos of the Christmas family plot. It’s one of…
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Sometimes my most productive walks are when I’m scouting Forgotten NY tours. I’m especially attuned to my surroundings and noticing anything I can talk about on the tour that will…
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There are a number of places around the world that bear the name Windermere; the original Windermere is England’s largest freshwater lake. New York City’s Windermere has been largely a…
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Jackson Avenue begins an almost 100-mile run at Vernon Boulevard just north of Borden Avenue and the west end of the LIRR Queens yards. It was built as a toll…
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The website I’ve run for 20 years, Forgotten New York, is sometimes like the NFL. I’ll explain. The NFL is divided into two conferences, the AFC and the NFC, which…
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I don’t trouble the exclusive areas of mid-Staten Island, say, in Todt Hill, Richmondtown, Lighthouse Hill that much. I keep meaning to, but expenses, circumstances, and weather seem to get…
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The pace of change in Flushing, Queens has only accelerated in the past 30 years, as its venerable Victorian age buildings have mostly been razed. But concentrated at Kissena Boulevard…