Sound Street runs for only a block in Astoria, between 23rd Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, one-way south, yet it does bring traffic to a bridge crossing the Grand Central Parkway.…
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Charlotte Street, a three-block thoroughfare running from Crotona Park east across Boston Road to Jennings Street and Minford Place, was briefly the best-known, and most infamous, street in the Bronx…
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Back in October I was roving Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan quite a bit. In the year of Covid, I resumed roaming about, including riding the subways, at first fitfully in…
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Periodically I check on some of my favorite “forgotten” artifacts around town, just to see how they’re doing. Sometimes, I’m disappointed. There was a sign with red and blue plastic…
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I haven’t been to Staten Island in quite awhile, and when the Covid Crisis is over I might even do what I did in early 2005 when compiling photos for…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent New York has often been derided as a playground for the rich, with their empty glass towers and breathtaking views of the city that…
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Why write about a bar on Broadway in Astoria that closed a couple of years ago? It turns out there’s probably some Long Island City history in the name. It’s…
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The Marvelettes once sang, “My baby must be a magician, ’cause he sure got the magic touch.” It’s possible this former Carroll Gardens hotspot at Hoyt and 3rd Streets was…
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On January 1, 2021 I resolved to do exactly what I had done 4 years earlier in 2017, when I visited the four new Second Avenue Subway stations, walking between…
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I know, this is hardly Forgotten, but complainers and purists, bear with me today. In June 2019, Forgotten New York’s tour of Gravesend was the best-attended of the year with…
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It had been quite a while since I walked Hudson River Park at the southwest end of Manhattan. In fact it had not been since November 2011, when I led…
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I’ll admit it, I don’t know much about 365 1st Avenue, on the west side of the avenue between East 21st and 22nd Streets facing Peter Cooper Village across the…