DOUGHTY Street is one of a network of short streets and alleys adjacent to the Fulton Ferry landing that were built in the early 1800s, making them some of Brooklyn’s…

NEW York City’s alleys aren’t often photographed; the largest troves of old photos of New York City are in the tax photos from the 1940s and 1980s in the Municipal…

UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…

I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in…

ONE of Queens’ obscurest alleys is just a few blocks away from Forgotten New York headquarters. It’s a short dead end called Jessie Court and it sits on Northern Boulevard…

BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent AMONG the important north-south routes in the Bronx is Webster Avenue, which was not named for the early American politician Daniel Webster, nor the linguist…

YELLOW brick roads are hard to find in New York City, as brick paved roads have been relentlessly asphalted the past few decades. To find one, it helps if the…

THOUGH Brooklyn and Manhattan are largely bereft of alleys and dead ends (both boroughs have eradicated many of them in the name of urban renewal), some neighborhoods have more than…

I’ve been round these parts before — in fact, I’ve done a survey of Canarsie’s still-numerous, but dwindling number of alleys before, in 2008 as a matter of fact. However I…

I’VE always been drawn to photograph obscure alleys and short streets, and Rosebank, Staten Island has more than its share. Kaltenmeier Lane runs for a block between Tilson Place and…

I was stumbling around Astoria in September 2022 when I found something interesting on 45th Street just south of 31st Avenue. I have always found Astoria and Long Island City…

As Forgotten New York documents in the Street Necrology of Downtown Brooklyn, the realms of Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Vinegar Hill used to be crawling with narrow alleys, that were…