LOCATED in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, two-mile long Roosevelt Island since 1971 has been the home of a small town of about 8,300 people in the midst…

In the summer of 2010, I was immensely happy to be able to mount an exhibit at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg that I put together with MTA employee Robert…

PENNYFIELD Avenue, the road to Fort Schuyler in Throg(g)s Neck (the DOT has one “g,” residents have two “g”‘s) runs from the Cross Bronx Expressway south to the fort, which…

THE Hell Gate Bridge was the final piece in the puzzle of running railroad trains into Midtown Manhattan. The tubes connecting Long Island with Penn Station opened in 1910, and Hell…

This building at 107 South 6th Street in Williamsburg, just north of its junction with Broadway and Bedford, is the former front of the Bedford Avenue or Empire Theatre and then…

I am a “recovered” bowler. I bowled frequently between 1967 and the mid-1980s. I have mentioned my adventures from time to time in Forgotten New York. I doggedly pursued the…

BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…

GREATEST naval commander of the Civil War David Farragut’s father was a Spanish sea captain who fought for the colonies in the Revolution. After his mother died, his father allowed…

YOU don’t expect to find a 3-story mixed-use brick building quite like this one all the way south in Great Kills, Staten Island, but that’s what you’ve got at Amboy…

HYLAN Boulevard in Staten Island, the longest road on the island not an expressway (though Richmond Avenue may have challenged it before its northern end was renamed Port Richmond Avenue…

THE Reformed Dutch Church of Hallets Cove (later Good Church of Deliverance) at 27-26 12th Street in Astoria Village was built in 1888; its verdigris’ed steeple replaced the original in 1900.…

THIS magnificent double-towered, triple-turreted former fire department headquarters on Jay Street just north of Willoughby contrasts with the rather less exuberant office buildings surrounding it. Designed in 1892 by Frank…