AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…
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MUCH of the spring and into the summer I wasn’t feeling particularly well with occasional gastro issues and a bad back, but I did get out now and then until…
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MANY of the world’s great cities mark their borders with walls and gates, but New York knocked down Wall Street’s ramparts by 1699 and expanded its territory north until reaching…
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YOU can learn a lot from coat hangers…wood ones, at least. Newtown Historical Society president, Queen of Queens, Forgotten NY contributor and editor of Juniper Park Civic Association’s Juniper Berry…
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BEFORE setting off on a Ridgewood and Bushwick walkabout recently I was pacing on the Myrtle Avenue elevated M train station (I pace back and forth like a caged animal…
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YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…
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I knew I had seen this sidewalk sign for Corner Deli before, as I was pacing around the Upper East Side at #1400 2nd Avenue at East 73rd Street. It…
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WALK through downtown Flushing and you may feel that you’re in a westernized Chinese-speaking society. This isn’t Hong Kong or Taiwan, but when did the first Chinese-Americans settle in this…
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I got this shot of the magnificent neon sidewalk sign for the One Six Four Bar and Grill, NE corner of Hillside Avenue and 164th Street in Jamaica, in 1998…
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WHILE beginning a jaunt in Park Slope recently I was intrigued right off the bat by this building at #230 Flatbush, between Bergen Street and 6th Avenue, with a pair…
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BUILDING on yesterday’s post about the long-forgotten Dubose Lane in Cambria Heights, I was tipped by a Forgotten Fan named Danny about one that’s closer to home, in Dyker Heights,…
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WHILE poring over Open Street Map for something interesting — as one does — I have come upon a complete and utter mystery out of the blue. It’s in Cambria…