GOOGLE MAP: WALKING TOTTENVILLE 2025 It had been since 2017 since I walked extensively around Tottenville, the southernmost point in New York State (it would be the southernmost town in…

LONG before the cluster of glass towers arose at Hudson Yards, Javits Center was the pioneer on the wild west side of Midtown Manhattan. It is not the biggest convention…

WAY back in 2013 I walked Elizabeth Street, Manhattan in its entirety, from Bayard Street in Chinatown north to Bleecker. That’s still my definitive page on the street, but in…

Continued from Part One WHEN a website is as old as Forgotten New York, which was conceived in the “stone knives and bearskins” (to quote Mr. Spock) era of the…

BAYSIDE Avenue in Queens is nowhere near Bayside, the neighborhood. Instead it runs between Union Street and the intersection of 154th Street and 29th Avenue in Flushing. In what is…

RESIDING just within the borough of Queens at Bushwick and Onderdonk Avenues you can find one of the oldest houses in Queens: probably only the Quaker Meeting House and Bowne…

On a recent jaunt in northern Astoria, I took the N train to its northern terminal at Ditmars Boulevard. I found an interesting unofficial alleyway that allows midblock passage for…

TRAVELING north on the Major Deegan Expressway, the H. W. Wilson lighthouse has been documented by many urban historians. In this century, new residential towers rose along the highway in…

I worked in Midtown on the overnight shift at Photo-Lettering from 1982-1988 before I began carrying a camera everywhere and chronicling what I find infrastructurally interesting, and this was way…

I last traipsed around Inwood back in 2019, the same year FNY did a very successful tour of Inwood and its neighbor across the Harlem River, Marble Hill. Inwood was…

IRONICALLY, in my opinion, Astoria and Long Island City were among the last neighborhoods in Queens to receive their street numbers in what I call the Great Renumbering in Queens…

BROADWAY and East 18th are on the edge of yet another Landmarked District, the large Ladies’ Mile Historic District, which roughly runs between East 17th and 24th Streets, and midblock between…