MUCH to my regret I was unable to partake at Roebling Pizza at #324 Roebling between South 8th and 9th in Williamsburg simply because I was scuttling past like a…

In 2019 Louie & Ernie’s Pizzeria celebrated 60 years in the business at Crosby and Waterbury Avenues. Founder Ernie Ottuso was honored by having the intersection named for him several…

BRENNAN and Carr was founded in 1938 at Gravesend Neck Road and Nostrand Avenue and has sold roast beef sandwiches as a staple from the very beginning. It’s famed for its…

THERE was a time when Blimpie ruled the roost as far as fast food submarine sandwiches (known by a variety of names elsewhere in the country) in the New York…

I know, this is hardly Forgotten, but complainers and purists, bear with me today. In June 2019, Forgotten New York’s tour of Gravesend was the best-attended of the year with…

I was furtively wandering down Queens Boulevard on Tuesday, occasionally pausing to wipe off my glasses, as the Illness Mask fogs up glasses as hot breath is redirected onto them.…

Remember when there could be large gatherings of facemask-free people for purely recreational purposes with no guilt trips? I know, the memory is fading. I remember them, though. I regretted…

NYC has its share of regional bakeries…Brooklynites swore by Ebinger’s up till about 1970 or so, and NYC still has its Entenmann’s; most of NYC’s urban neighborhoods have popular bakeries.…

I’ve mentioned my preference for Blimpie sub sandwiches often in Facebook, but less often in Forgotten NY. Blimpie has largely lost out in the fast food franchise sandwich sweepstakes, but…

I happened to be at Book Culture, a new independent bookstore on Jackson Avenue in Hunters Point, in March 2019 to attend a book signing: The Mets’ Art Shamsky and…

  In August 2017 I evaded the dead horse heat of the dog days for a half hour in Berg’n, a food mall converted from a manufacturing warehouse on Bergen Street…

Schaffer’s Tavern is an 83-year old German restaurant at Victory Boulevard and Bradley Avenue on the south end of Westerleigh, a neighborhood full of very interesting architecture from the late…