On a visit to Chicago in the summer of 2001 I remarked to an architect friend that I’ve never seen a good-looking parking garage. It seemed like it was impossible…

I traveled to Sunset Park on a humid, overcast afternoon in September to take a look at some railroad tracks. A few days earlier, I had been horrified to see…

Eons ago, in the summer of 2006, I was scouting the West Village for old buildings, hidden parks, strange infrastructure: you know, the Forgotten New York usual — when I…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent A great avenue deserves a great gateway and some of New York’s famous roads have iconic monuments or parks at their starting points. But most…

When most New Yorkers think of Murray Hill, they likely think of the area on the east side of Manhattan, just south of the United Nations between 34th and 42nd…

I was actually stumped about something to write about this week — I have plenty of unused photos, but not the inclination to write about any of their locales (they…

Little did I know that my February 2020 foray into the mid-Bronx (Morris Park, Allerton, and Williamsbridge) would be my final Bronx walk for what appears will be at least…

Well, it had to happen: I’m running out of fresh images to populate Forgotten New York with, as I’ve been mostly restricted to eastern Queens with the Covid Crisis. Fear…

During the Coronavirus Crisis, my scuttling meanderings have been limited to the immediate neighborhood surrounding Forgotten New York headquarters in Little Neck, so I have been walking in ever-increasing concentric…

Bedford Avenue is Brooklyn’s longest continuous street that’s not a limited access parkway or expressway, edging out Flatbush Avenue by a few tenths of a mile. I’ve always found it…

with SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I imagine that you weren’t aware that there’s a neighborhood called Mapleton in Brooklyn. It’s barely there anymore, as the larger neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and…

Continued from Part 1 To amuse myself before the football games came on, I decided to walk from my home in Little Neck all the way to 71st/Continental Avenue in…