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…

Those of you who follow the Kevin J. Walsh facebook page know that I spent much of the year working for a publisher in Hoboken. I spent precious little time…

  Lisa, a friend from Philly, said she wanted to eat at Chip Shop in Brooklyn, so we headed to its sole remaining location at 129 Atlantic Avenue at Henry…

  By MICHAEL CASTELROSO Special to Forgotten New York The original Puglia, 189 Hester Street, Little Italy, was opened at 117 Mott Street by Gregorio Garofalo in 1919.  Garofalo, an…

  I have a 30-year history with Zeke’s Roast Beef, which served my dining needs once per week when I lived on 73rd Street and 7th Avenue in Bay Ridge…

I’m beginning a new Forgotten NY category called Eats, in which I talk about lunch and dinner spots I like to frequent. I’m hardly a gourmet, but there are a…