I fancy myself something of a connoisseur of carousels. Whenever I know one is around wherever I happen to be, I seek it out. I admire the calliope music (fie…

LATELY I have been revisiting my Names of the Neighborhoods series over at SpliceToday but I hadn’t tackled Staten Island and Manhattan yet. Staten Island has a number of curious…

It’s that time of the month again…when I want a weekend off, that is. I’m handing it off to Sergey again for a visit to Elmhurst, or rather, its predecessor……

A new addition to the streetside infrastructure the last couple of years has been charging stations for electric-powered vehicles. If you watched the Super Bowl this year, you saw electric…

My instincts are usually good. On a recent march down East 12th Street I snapped a photo of Father Mancini Corner at Avenue A. It turns out that this sign…

THE Forgotten NY camera (a Panasonic Lumix) was focused like a laser beam on the SE corner of Avenue A and East 13th Street a few Saturdays ago when I…

The following is an expanded version of my SpliceToday piece from February 9th, 2022 with additional text and photos. WAY back in early 2009, when I and the world were…

I had made my way to Jamaica from Flushing in abominable 28-degree weather (at least there were no snowmen) and about a half hour before packing it in for the…

THE Grand Central Laundromat can be found on Parsons Boulevard, a major north-south road in the middle of Queens, and seemingly has nothing to do with Grand Central Terminal (I…

ONE lit off for Red Hook on November 27, 2021 (new thing: I have decided to put an exact date on the photography in Forgotten NY posts, since this is…

EARLY in October 2021 I decided to walk around a tight little enclave of streets located between Bushwick and Varick Avenues on the east and west and Johnson and Flushing…

DURING one of the five humidity-free days in July 2021, I lit off down Court Street, a walk I have done before both for Forgotten NY and long before that.…