HERE’S the Richmond Hill LIRR elevated station on the Long Island Rail Road Lower Montauk Branch in 1997. When in the next year I heard this line would be mostly…
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BEFORE cellular phones took over in the 1990s, small, wireless devices, beepers, received short messages, typically numeric (like a callback number) or brief text, by alerting the user with a…
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CHRISTIAN imagery abounds on Carroll Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope, even on the non-ecclesiastical buildings. Across the street from Francis Xavier Church is what probably used to be…
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THE early 1950s saw new lamppost designs appearing on New York City streets. The Art Deco, Machine Age and Art Moderne movements in architecture had given rise to new, streamlined…
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In the northeast corner of the Bronx, Pelham Bay Park takes up nearly 2776 acres, the city’s largest park. Its namesake is the Pell family, which had a colonial period…
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AMONG Forgotten New York’s many influences are the photographs produced by early 20th Century street photographers/archivists/authors Percy Loomis Spehr, Eugene Armbruster and E.E. Rutter, whose work chronicling the rapidly changing…
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DURING my initial photography for Forgotten New York, sometime in 1998-1999, I stumbled on two or three “Woody” lampposts on the entrance road to the Clearview Park Golf Course, just…
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AFTER who knows how many decades in service, an ancient Department of Traffic sign (the agency is now the Department of Transportation, and is now mostly interested in bicycle lanes)…
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RESIDING just within the borough of Queens at Bushwick and Onderdonk Avenues you can find one of the oldest houses in Queens: probably only the Quaker Meeting House and Bowne…
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Continued from Part 2 HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got…
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BACK at the end of July 2021, when i could still walk long distance without various pains here and there (I’d like to return to those days) I took a…
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A golden oldie from 1999, here’s a Twin Type F lamppost on Sutton Square at the east end of East 58th Street at the East River. The base of this…