By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post Tucked in a remote corner of north Queens, north and east of 45th Street and 19th Avenue and just west of the Rikers Island…
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Passing Bellerose Tiles and Building Materials on Jericho Turnpike west of 249th Street in Bellerose in February 2026, my first outing after a long layoff due to cold, wind and…
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LET’S turn the clock back to February 28, 2026 when I was just starting to roam with the camera again after about three months of inactivity. After several mild winters,…
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Forgotten Fan Peter Moskos passes on this bit of Astoria’s past at an apartment house at 30-80 32nd Street between 30th and 31st Avenue. A careful look at the entrance…
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IT’S a good problem to have. I have hundreds…if not thousands…of usable photos that haven’t found their way into Forgotten New York yet, because give me the opportunity and I’m…
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I recently walked from Briarwood to Forest Hills, mostly along Austin Street, a walk I hope to complete along its northern section soon. I have also published a couple pieces…
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NON-residents of Staten Island may not know that the borough has its very own rail line which, although resembling a subway, isn’t run as a subway at all. Formerly known as…
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NOT since 2019 had I been in Canarsie, on the southeast end of Brooklyn facing Jamaica Bay. I just hadn’t had the opportunity. That year, I walked all the way…
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By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post BRIARWOOD, Queens was developed in stages beginning in 1905 by the Briarwood Land Company and bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west,…
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In his past visits to downtown Jamaica, Kevin documented alleys such as Burdette Place in 2014 and Clinton Terrace in 2000. The latter was part of a larger essay on…
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WHAT is now called Shore Parkway was constructed as the Circumferential Parkway in 1940 but the official name was changed, soon enough, to Shore Parkway to the delight of sign…
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Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…