NEW York City’s fire alarms evolved greatly over the nearly 125 years they have been street corner staples. They seem to be the one Beaux Arts designed street fixtures that…

FOR my next “ForgottenTour Indoors” (this past week there was a well-received Zoom tour called FNY By the Seashore” in which I presented some out-of-the-way waterside communities like Dead Horse…

My forays into Manhattan’s Upper East Side have been shamefully few; only a handful of times in the 26+ years and counting of Forgotten New York. That’s why I was…

FORGIVE me for being behind the times, but that’s nothing new. I was puttering around Forest Hills this past weekend with two quarries in mind: get a photo of Forest…

SURVIVING into the 1990s, but not quite the 2000s, was a relic not of the ’64-’65 Fair but its 1939-1940 predecessor. The Billy Rose Aquacade, or more properly, the NY…

EARLIER this week I mentioned the presence of a small building from the 1820s, hidden in plain sight on the Bowery opposite Rivington Street. Today, here’s another Bowery relic, of…

My enjoyment of chocolate is undimmed, even though I try to keep my blood sugar in check. True chocolate purists, though, will accept only dark chocolate that is unsoiled by…

BEFORE Broadway became Manhattan’s signature Mother Road, the lane that would become the Bowery wound to the island’s upper reaches. It was a dirt trail etched by the bare feet and…

ONE of Brooklyn’s lest-known and perhaps least-visited WWI memorials is at Bernard Weinberg Triangle, Tillary Street and Flatbush Avenue Extension, the southeast end of McLaughlin Park. This was originally the…

THIS building, #259 Front Street at Dover Street, as well as the two adjacent buildings on Dover, was constructed in 1808 for flour merchant David Lydig. He had gone into…

ACCORDING to sources such as the late Richard McDermott of The New York Chronicle and Steve Redlauer and Ellen Williams of “The Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York”, the Bridge Cafe, at…

I have yet to do a definitive walk on Riverside Drive, though in 2012 a Forgotten NY tour marched from 72nd north to 125th, a trip that took us a…