WHILE taking a daily walk around Terrace Gardens, a development just over the Nassau line near my own Westmoreland Gardens, I found the remains of a Dole-Kemp campaign sticker. Longtime…

EVERY so often when I’m in Jackson Heights, I make my way over to 31st Avenue and 81st Street to see how the Crooked House of Jackson Heights is doing.…

I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

JUST when it started to get hot in June, I wrapped up my spring 2022 Lower East Side meanderings with a walk east on Kenmare and Delancey Streets. Kenmare Street…

MOUNT Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at just over 29000 feet (about 8849 meters) and sits on the border of China and Nepal, the mountain George Mallory…

I found it a bit ironic that this shot of a portion of Rachel Carson Playground at Colden Street and Geranium Avenue at Kissena Corridor Park features so much pavement…

I haven’t written about the Hunters Point Avenue station for about a decade, but it’s one of my favorites because it’s one of a select few stations in the NYC…

EVERY few years I check in on what’s happening with the Skyline Diner at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train at 49th Avenue and 21st Street. You may think a…

It was a pleasant day in May and I had completed the Astoria Village leg of my planned excursion that included AV, the west end of Astoria Park, and then…

THE Abbey Tavern, at 3rd Avenue and East 26th Street near Gramercy Park, is one of many Irish pubs in the general area, but it is named for a much,…

PERHAPS McSorley’s, Fanelli’s, the Old Town Bar, and the Ear Inn are more chronicled in the city’s lore and literature (at least they have in Forgotten NY) , but the Grand…

In the 1980s, NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero acquired this shot of a rather forlorn Twin version of the GE Whiteway at a lot on 12th Avenue (in Hells…