CATCHING up on some places I haven’t been yet, I decided to go over some well-worn territory for me at least, from Astoria to Woodside. From 2012 to 2018 I…
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TOO often the decline in religious observance or demographic changes in neighborhoods have been documented here with churches and synagogues demolished in favor of uninspiring brick and glass residential towers.…
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THE Bronx’ Kingsbridge Road runs from Marble Hill at the Bronx-Manhattan line (it’s called West 225th Street in Marble Hill) east and southeast to Fordham Road, following a meandering path defined…
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THE 1939-40 World’s Fair may have been more storied and better-remembered (now by few alive today), but the 1964-65 Fair had its whiz-bang moments as well…and I was there, eating…
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THIS forlorn subway entrance, with its rolldown aluminum gate (that I have never seen open) is actually all that remains of the old Pennsylvania Hotel, built in 1919, closed in…
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THE rundown and somewhat neglected neighborhood of Stapleton on Staten Island’s eastern shore isn’t thought of as a hotbed of classic architecture but it does have pockets of excellence. Recently…
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ONE day after giving a Forgotten NY tour in Sunnyside and Astoria in which I pointed out the former Packard showroom/dealership on Northern Boulevard and 46th Street, some stuff fell…
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A “quickie” this weekend. Hopefully, weekend longforms will return soon, though (thankfully?) I’m thinking the days of my 100-photo epics are done. I don’t travel much: when I have the…
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JUST my luck, when I happened by the massive Bay Ridge Savings Bank building at 5th Avenue and 54th Street in Sunset Park, a postal truck was parked in front,…
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THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…
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LONG before subway “countdown clocks” that foretold, with varying amounts of accuracy, when the next train would appear, these simply designed analog clocks, here seen at Fordham Road in 2016,…
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SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…