By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a block of 18th Avenue between 126th and 127th Streets in College Point, Queens, the avenue widens with a green traffic median containing a…
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A few years ago I wrote a few columns for the Huffington Post; I gave up doing it because the payment was $0.00. Here’s a piece about various rails and…
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Continuing my Manhattan cross streets series. I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 18th Street and 10th Street in this batch, and 14th Street as well in autumn…
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I haven’t lost hope for the High Line, the former elevated freight railroad constructed in 1934 and used for that purpose until 1980. Long before I even conceived Forgotten New…
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Funny thing about subways. I am an avid subway rider since I do not own a car and admittedly, have always been too chicken to learn to drive. Thus it…
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There was a time when Staten Island had separate towns, as Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens had before consolidation into Greater New York in 1898. The island was divided into four…
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Guider Avenue is one of the shortest wide streets in Brooklyn, enjoying 4 lanes with a center median. It runs from East 12th Street at Neptune Avenue west and northwest…
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A week ago in 2020, I did a Brooklyn A to Z page about southern Brooklyn avenues named for letters of the alphabet, Avenue A to Z. There are a…
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I have to explain just a little how I sort out photos for Forgotten New York. I use two cameras, one being a Panasonic Lumix. I bought a used one…
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Though Tom’s Restaurant on the Upper West Side at Broadway and West 112th Street is hardly “forgotten” and has been a beloved area touchstone since the 1940s when the Zoulis…
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Remarkably, the former Sheffield Farms bottling plant in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant on Fulton Street at Marcy Avenue has not been protected by the Landmarks Preservation Society and thus I…
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Back in 2016 (and it seems like yesterday even though it’s four years ago as of 2020) I presented some striking, colorful images from NYC’s City Walls project of the…