WAY BACK in 1999. the dawn of the Forgotten NY era, I profiled Lake Place, an odd east-west alley in Gravesend running east from 86th Street at West 11th Street…
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FLETCHER STREET, a narrow alley in the South Street Seaport area originally going three blocks between Pearl and South Streets a block north of Maiden Lane, is seen here in…
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HERE’S a photo of the webmaster and my good friend, Doctor of Theology and author Dawn Eden Goldstein, in a 2007 outing in front of James Leeson’s gravestone in Trinity…
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FOR the first time in several years, I made my way south to Tottenville, New York State’s southernmost “town” (actually a neighborhood in NYC), on a very warm 80+-degree afternoon…
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THE only zoo in the city that is not operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society is on Staten Island, at 614 Broadway near Clove Lakes Park in West Brighton, in…
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FORGOTTEN NEW YORK was on hiatus for a few days because of a hardware issue: the keyboard wasn’t typing. This meant I couldn’t even enter the password to access the…
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EAST River Tower, 11-24 31st Avenue, is a new 20-story luxury building that towers over the competition in gentrifying Ravenswood, Queens, from this view from Carl Schurz Park on Manhattan’s…
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BOWLING GREEN is still mapped as a street, a short connector between Broadway and Whitehall Street just east of Battery Park. Its adjoining triangle park, featuring the Delacorte Fountain, is…
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I have always been wary about bees and their relatives, the hornets. They have stingers on their butts and aren’t afraid to use them, the hornets especially. Worker bees that…
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I last traipsed around Inwood back in 2019, the same year FNY did a very successful tour of Inwood and its neighbor across the Harlem River, Marble Hill. Inwood was…
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THE tug Stephen B assists the barge John Blanche in the East River on a recent weekend afternoon. Behind it is the “gentrified” Domino Sugar refinery on the waterfront, which…
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A short peninsula juts into Central Park Lake at about West 76th Street, affording stellar photo opportunities. “Hernshead” is Anglo-Saxon for “heron head” but according to the birdwatchers, the wading…