New York City streets that run in old waterway courses are relatively few and far between. The most famous is Canal Street, which was built in the early 1800s on…
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Court Street, which runs from Newark north to 7th Street between Hudson and Washington, is a relic of Hoboken’s past as it was once the laneway serving stables along Hoboken’s…
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Jones Alley, looking south from Bond Street According to Gil Tauber of oldstreets, in 1806 a laneway called at first Cross Lane was laid out beginning at Bleecker opposite Mott. It…
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It was a 72-degree Christmas Eve in 2015 and I had the cabin fever, so even though it was intermittently drizzling or lightly raining I sallied forth with the camera…
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I have been a-mews-ing myself lately (ugh… I know…) by revisiting Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s mewses, or short lanes that formerly held stables that were later converted into homes (many of…
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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…
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I first saw Freeman Alley on a map in the 1980s, when I went to the Rand McNally Map Store on East 53rd Street just east of 5th Avenue and…
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There’s a short angled driveway on the north side of 32nd Avenue in an industrial end of Flushing trailing off east of Downing Street. I have had it in the…
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Years ago, when FNY was just getting started back in 1999, I got word that there was a hidden street in the Bronx, unmarked on maps and by the Department…
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Benson Street, which runs between Leonard and Franklin Streets between Broadway and Lafayette Street, used to be one of Manhattan’s true rarities: a named dead end. While other cities in…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Bronx is an urban explorer’s dream. Its mix of colliding street grids results in oddly-angled buildings and alleys. Its challenging topography means that…
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No street, inch for inch and brick by brick, represents what has happened to many NYC communities more than what has happened to Summit Court, a dead end on Sanford…