Here’a an unusual Type G wall-mounted shaft at 41 Wooster Street north of Grand. It’s the only NEMA luminaire in public use, though I’m not sure if the Department of…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 I walked West Street in Greenpointin September 2015, and it may have been a propitious time to do so because the west end of Greenpoint is,…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent This piece originally appeared in FNY in April 2010, but was never transcribed when I switched to the WordPress platform the following year. Sergey…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Stockholm Street isn’t the only yellow-bricked road in Queens — a short stretch of Foothill Avenue at 193rd Street in Jamaica Estates boasts…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 GOOGLE MAP: PRINCE’S BAY One of the places I visited in 2005, and have only been in once or twice since, is Prince’s Bay, on the…
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In February 2005 I was a Staten Islander for a week! I may have told this story before in one of my Staten Island pages, but I like telling it.…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributorThe “forgotten” appendage of the city, the Rockaway peninsula has a number of communities strung together by an elevated subway: Far Rockaway, Wavecrest, Edgemere, Holland,…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten New York correspondent On the map of Manhattan, the first decade of the new millennium has given the island a new set of streets, with seemingly…
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When I last did a general walkabout in Woodhaven, it was all the way back in 2007, so there’s a little catching up to do. One of the more successful…
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Continued from Part 1 I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October 2015, when its intrinsic oderifousness is tamped down just a little. My idea…
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Downtown Flushing is noisy, overcrowded, and smells horrible. That’s why, naturally, I decided to take my latest voyage of discovery in Flushing in October, when the oderifousness is tamped down…
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Dominie’s Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie),…