Although NYC divested most of its colonial-era “royal” names after defeating the British in the Revolutionary War, there are a few that doggedly hang on, such as Prince St. in…

Continued from New Dorp Staring out in New Dorp, I did a somewhat ambitious walk through northeast Staten Island, winding through Dongan Hills, Concord and Grasmere, winding up at the…

I had last been in New Dorp and the Todt Hill, Staten Island area in January 2018 when I visited the Ernest Flagg Estate, which became St. Charles Seminary, with…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In October 2018 a new park was completed in the center of the Melrose neighborhood in the South Bronx. Previously known as Block 2381 Lot…

Since we talk about Forgotten NY in terms of decades now, it’s been a good 14 years since I covered the Gowanus area of Brooklyn in any depth at all.…

Continued from Part 1 GOOGLE MAP: WALKING THE NEW K FROM SUNNYSIDE TO GREENPOINT On August 28, 2019, I did something I had never done before: I stood in the…

I am a Rememberer. I am skewered now and then for repeating myself or imitating Captain Obvious, but I am capable of remembering quite a few extraneous objects and occurrences.…

Forgotten New York’s Inwood and Marble Hill tour was so successful this past June (2019) I thought I’d recap it here… Inwood was the last part of Manhattan to develop…

I have found myself in a number of Queens cemeteries this year. Earlier in the year (2019) when the NY Post did an article on Forgotten NY’s 20th anniversary) I…

John Paul Jones Park is the site of one of the three 20-inch Rodman guns ever produced. Fort Hamilton, in 1864, tested this new cannon, designed by Capt. Thomas Jefferson…

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…