On his recent visit to Pleasant Plains on Staten Island, Kevin went into great detail on the neighborhood’s hidden history. On its northern edge, there’s a property worthy of its…

THERE are a curious pair of short streets in the north end of Bedford Park alongside the Grand Concourse at its northern end at Mosholu Parkway, St. Georges Crescent (no…

I have a fascination, or perhaps even a slight problem, with short streets that emanate from longer streets that are named for the street they are on. It’s like a…

CRABBS Lane is about as far out in New York City as you can get, as it sits on an orphaned portion of Victory Boulevard near the West Shore Expressway…

HEY, I get it. Verveelen Place is nothing special; issuing from Broadway south of West 231st Street, it hits a dead end at what was once an active branch of…

In his past visits to downtown Jamaica, Kevin documented alleys such as Burdette Place in 2014 and Clinton Terrace in 2000. The latter was part of a larger essay on…

UPON ambling through Douglaston to take in the crisp spring air (an El Niño is developing that will keep it hot and humid for a few months soon enough) I…

On a recent jaunt in northern Astoria, I took the N train to its northern terminal at Ditmars Boulevard. I found an interesting unofficial alleyway that allows midblock passage for…

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…

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…

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…

YOU can be forgiven if you completely overlook Shrady Place, a dead end on Kingsbridge Terrace just south of Fort Independence Street in Kingsbridge Heights. The Terrace runs atop a…