By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent On my way, going southbound on the Grand Concourse, I got caught by a red light at E. 188th Street.  While waiting for it…

Part of the appeal of the MTA’s Transit Museum Parade of Trains, in which rolling stock dating from 1907-1937 was exhibited at the Brighton Beach station were the plethora of…

While standing on the Brighton Beach elevated station above Brighton Beach Avenue recently I spotted this trio of shoe ads on the building as seen from the platform. While all…

I was shuffling about on Broadway and West 262nd Street in Riverdale waiting for the Bx9 bus (a third of my life is asleep, and another third is waiting for…

We were prowling around on a Sunday noon around lunchtime looking for a diner that didn’t have a line out the door (apparently Joe Junior, which I heard had premium burgers,…

Ocean Hill is a small triangular section of Bedford-Stuyvesant located between Malcolm X Boulevard (formerly Reid Avenue) and the V formed by Broadway and Fulton Street and Broadway Junction. Here you…

Forgotten NY has appeared in all three of NYC’s daily papers over the years, in articles about the website and the book and also articles written by me. I once…

Two for the price of one on Liberty Avenue at 88-17, with ads for a former local tavern, Tutie’s, and Garcia Grande Cigars. Forgotten Fan James Burke remembers Tutie’s. He writes: Tutie’s was…

When I first saw this painted sign on Gansevoort between Greenwich and Washington, above the former Florent restaurant, I naturally assumed it said “Burnham’s BEET Wine.” Actually the T is…

In the summer of 1999 or 2000 I was riding down Brooklyn’s Broadway El, of course riding in the front car of the R-40 so I could see out the…

This ancient painted ad, which appeared at Duffy Square, Broadway and West 47th Street, in 1998 after the demolition of a corner building, was among Forgotten NY’s many mothers and…

I’ve discovered another painted ad for US Rep. Paul Fino, which is in rather better shape than the previous one I found in Morris Park a few years ago, on Crotona…