No, the beloved deli “appetizing” institution, Russ & Daughters, is hardly “forgotten,” but this is also a signage and infrastructure blog, so I thought I’d point out something I found…
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NOW and then, I stroll around the neighborhood at lunch. I work at home, but everyone has to do lunch between 1:00 and 2:00, so there are limits on how…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent At the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets is a glass tower with signs for The Market Line, an underground food and retail complex…
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CONCORD Street and Duffield Streets are a pair of Brooklyn streets that can’t be neatly fitted into a neighborhood. They are too far east to be in Brooklyn Heights, too…
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A public space in front of 1411 Broadway at West 39th commemorates Golda Meir (1898-1978), the prime minister of Israel from 1971-1974. The prime minister was born in Kiev (now spelled…
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IT’S been way too long since I have been in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn: September 2020 in fact. I came to know it very well in the 2010s, when I…
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SINCE Brooklyn and Manhattan do not share a land border, with the East River providing the undefended separation between the two boroughs, getting street scenes of the two boroughs in…
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On the east side of Bellevue South Park between 1st and 2nd Avenues we find a short, two-block street called Mount Carmel Place. This street harks back to a Forgotten…
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NOW it can be told. Between November 2022 and October 2023 I was unable to do much Forgottening at all, as in walking around and pointing the camera at whatever…
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A recent building teardown at 2nd Avenue and East 72nd Street revealed this partial ad for Pearline Soap. Though Pearline is represented in a great number of color advertising cards…
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It appears as if 121 Charles, at the corner of Greenwich, has been here forever but it is actually a 1967 interloper. It is an 1809 (?) farmhouse moved here…
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THE Patriot, Chambers Street and Church Street, closed in mid-2022, likely a Covid-19 victim. It was a neighborhood bar cleverly disguised as a dive bar (unlike the nearby Raccoon Lodge…