I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

From Paul Lukas of Uni Watch comes this extraordinary find: The demolition of some buildings on the south side of Flatbush Avenue between 5th Avenue and Pacific Street reveals this…

I may be a little unobservant, but I seem to be seeing fewer and fewer pawnshops around New York City these days. I’m sure there are still some around, but most of…

ForgottenFan Ben Hagen passed along photos of a pair of decades-old ads that have been in view on West Kingsbridge Road west of University Avenue that have apparently been in…

In the midst of a brainsearing July 2017 afternoon I was staggering up Broadway in SoHo, seeking anything old and unexplained, besides myself. During these walks I often glance near…

During a recent stroll from Flushing to Jamaica down Parsons Boulevard, I was surprised to see this painted-on-bricks ad on the southwest corner of Parsons and Hillside Avenue had reappeared.…

I am posting about a pair of my favorite Midtown buildings today, one immediately endangered, the other not. I’ve known about each of them for quite awhile. Both are from…

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,…