THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they were doing it on…
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I worked in Midtown on the overnight shift at Photo-Lettering from 1982-1988 before I began carrying a camera everywhere and chronicling what I find infrastructurally interesting, and this was way…
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I have not done enough pieces about Queens, my adopted borough, lately. Some pages are in the offing. In September I walked in eastern Flushing and Auburndale, getting some photos…
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WHILE journeying over to Elizabeth Street to view the Elizabeth Street Garden, which locals and preservationists want to save, developers are salivating over, and has become something of a political…
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In the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, Jersey and York streets run parallel to each other, with a steep slope between them, part of the borough’s complex geology. Kevin…
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FROM 2021 comes this image of the giant painted ad for men’s clothier Weber & Heilbroner at 6th Avenue and West 35th Street, directly across the street from the statue…
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CAN it really be almost nine years since I last explored the underground passageway beneath Rockefeller Center that rins beneath 6th Avenue from west 47th to 53rd Streets and then…
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RECENTLY, Forgotten New York took a look at three separate street in downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO named Fleet, for an early landowner, Samuel Fleet. I’m not done with lost streets…
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AROUND the corner from the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue at 6 East 87th Street in a private alley is a detailed statue more worthy of a public space, known…
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As Forgotten New York readers know I have an enthusiasm for short streets and alleys, of which New York simply does not have enough, compared to cities such as Philly…
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FORGOTTEN FAN Vicki M. passes along this photo of a present-day model drum mailbox and a pebbled concrete post that formerly held a smaller one at Ascan Avenue and Kessel…
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THE city’s Hall of Records at 31 Chambers Street is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten-NY essay as its exterior and interior are landmarked, it appeared in numerous movies, and…