Well-worn territory for sure, but from November to February I did a fair bit of walking around in Astoria, especially in its northern stretch. This week, I wanted to do…

On December 2018, a crystal clear day when shadows were at their harshest, I hiked around southwest Long Island City. Inspired by the news earlier in the year that Amazon…

A little inside baseball before I begin — this is the first longform post I am doing after the Forgotten New York revamp, and I’m going to have to get…

I took a quick stroll east on 125th Street, crossing the 3rd Avenue Bridge into Mott Haven, west across the Madison Avenue Bridge back into Harlem again. Got some air…

Something about North Brooklyn attracts me during the Christmas season. I have done surveys of both Manhattan and Graham Avenues in December. Today, I chose Humboldt Street, as I have a…

I have been poring through the 1940s tax photos that NYC recently added to its online Municipal Archives. Formerly, you had to request these shots from the Archives at $25…

Because of its proximity to John F. Kennedy International Airport, I’d always thought Ozone Park’s name had something to do with air travel, since the ozone layer is high in…

Continued from Part 2 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…

I enjoy every Forgotten NY page I write but I think I’m in for some extra enjoyment this week. I stumbled on a folder full of classic signs, part of…

The humidity in the Northeast in the summer of 2018 has been unrelenting, it’s like  South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, etc. Nevertheless I’ve been at it even more than ever, walking,…

I make no apologies for being a nostalgist. I spent my first 35 years in Bay Ridge and return often, first to visit my father, who passed away in 2003,…

I’m lucky to reside in an area that still has retained some aspects of its rural past amid its current suburb-ity. A walk through the neighborhoods of the northern part of…