I don’t get out to Cypress Hills often and I have a hard time getting a handle on it when I do. The neighborhood sits between East New York, one…

THE campanile, or bell tower, of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 173 East 3rd between Avenues A and B, dominates the East Village skyline. The church is cathedral-sized and believe it…

THOUGH it’s a good problem to have, I’ve now accumulated a very large backlog of photos to use in Forgotten NY. In 2026 alone I have taken nearly 5000 photos…

WHILE limping north on 9th/Columbus Avenue from Penn Station in June 2022, I spotted the figure of a trumpeter on top of what looked like a flagpole on the northeast…

CROSBY Street is one of those NYC streets that traditionally had been somewhat overlooked, since it’s wedged between main N-S thoroughfares Broadway and Lafayette Street between Howard and Bleecker Streets. It…

THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…

YET one more example of the classic residential architecture of the early 20th Century I found while dazedly trundling through the Upper west Side in April 2021 at #200 West…

THE Bazzini nut empire moved out of the massive 339-343 Greenwich at Jay Street in 2009 after 123 years in Tribeca; it was originally located on Park Place but moved here in…

On a recent jaunt to Hunters Point, I was heartened to see an honorific street sign honoring Tony Mazzarella, who opened the Waterfront Crabhouse in 1978. It attracted famous visitors…

In the early to mid 20th century, monumental high schools were popular, as there were apparently many more public school students. Like banks, high school architects tried to impart permanency…

THIS sliver of a park at Webster Avenue and East Fordham Road carries a historic name. This small park is a vestige of a far larger estate once called “Rose…

QUEENS’ Seneca Avenue is noteworthy as its name can be said to come from two different languages. The official version is that the street was named for one of the…