The Lower East Side of Manhattan, roughly defined by East Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the…

On a hot day in May I set out to visit most of Astoria’s historical spots and found most of them. I began at the LIRR station in Woodside and…

Parsons Boulevard is one of Queens’ lengthier roads, although NYC’s various traffic agencies and city planners haven’t shown it a great amount of respect. It begins way up north in…

When I first moved to Flushing in 1993 I marveled at a pair of very high towers visible looking toward the southern horizon from 43rd Avenue and 162nd Street. They…

Here’s a photo of the east end of Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing, where it meets Northern Boulevard at 155th Street and a shopping mall. For a number of reasons, I…

Continued from Part 1 Another entry in FNY’s deck-clearing exercise. I took these photos in mid-July 2017, when a front had passed and the dead dog heat and humidity had…

Continued from Part 1 Pickings have been slim this winter for Forgotten New Yorking. I haven’t been able to get out much. Despite what I’m told was a monster flu…

While stumbling around Woodside and avoiding the ice patches on the sidewalks that Queens property owners refused to clean, I arrived at a cluster of familiar-looking apartment houses on either…

The impressive townhouse at 124 East 55th between Park and Lexington was built around 1910 and is known as the Mary Hale Cunningham House, after its original owner. However, the…

In the summer of 2011 I was walking in Bedford Park, Bronx when I spied an especially large schist outcropping at Creston Avenue and Minerva place, wedged between Jerome Avenue…

For the last three Sundays of 2017, my intention is to throttle back just a bit, and refrain from 100+ photo multipart extravanganzas, but fear not, in the New Year…

Continued from Part 1 It was a gorgeous day when I did a reconnaissance walk for a since-completed Forgotten NY tour of Uptown Trinity Cemetery. So much so that when…