I have a whole batch of Tottenville photos fired off in October 2025 I have not used yet. I have been there often over the years; I remember a bus…

ABOUT a year ago, I wandered over to the High Line extension above 10th Avenue and West 30th Street, and then continued south on 10th Avenue to document the High…

OLD Slip, one of lower Manhattan’s “slip” streets indicating former boat landings or “slips” was first encountered on maps in 1691. This Slip was the site of a momentous event…

I worked for Tiffany & Co. on a temp job from the summer of 2013 to the winter of 2014 and it was a pleasant assignment, mostly copy editing and…

ONE can find square metallic covers like this all over town. Many have the name and address of the manufacturer, in this case, Marcy Foundry. In this case, it’s likely…

WHILE well known and possibly not a candidate for a Forgotten NY entry, I did find a P.J. Clarke’s location not everyone may know about. Clarke’s, in its flagship location…

DOCTOR John S. Westervelt (1799-1869), the first health officer of the port of New York, who had married Daniel Tompkins’s daughter Hannah, purchased a ninety-eight acre tract that formerly had…

SEEN here is a scene I snapped in April 2016 — fully ten years ago! — on Lafayette Avenue and Cortelyou Place in Staten Island. Many sections of Staten Island…

LUTHER GULICK PLAYGROUND is a welcome quadrangle of green located between Broome, Delancey, Willett and Columbia Streets on the Lower East Side. It was founded in 1933 as Bernard Downing…

On a walk in the recently reopened southern section of East River Park in October 2025 I spotted the tug Stephen B. guiding the barge John Blanche in the East…

WHEN prominent apartment buildings in Bay Ridge are under discussion, Flagg Court (seen on this page), developed by premier architect Ernest Flagg (Singer Building) comes first to mind, but the…

Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…