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…

WALTON High School, 2790 Reservoir Avenue, was founded as an all-girls high school in 1923, became “co-ed” in 1977 and closed in June 2008. Today the building that housed Walton is…

We need to talk about Dahill Road, if only because it’s been some time since I gave it much thought. But on the Brooklyn street map, it’s fairly important. When…

AFTER Greenpoint’s grid street system was laid out by Neziah Bliss in the early 1800s, east-west cross streets were named simply, A through Q Streets from north to south. Greenpoint Avenue was…

DURING my days at 8302 6th Avenue in Bay Ridge from 1957-1982, I spent a lot of time in Tom McDonald Triangle, which looked nothing like this… it was a…

FORGOTTEN New York already has a category dedicated to streets that have vanished, Street Necrology, but I may need to institute a new category dedicated to the buildings we are…

ODDLY, I had known about this beautiful Italianate mansion at #182 South Oxford Street, north of Atlantic Avenue in Fort Greene, for some time. But whenever I had happened over,…

My father was a camera buff, or rather, he was a buff of taking pictures. Much like myself, he took thousands of photos, many of which remain in my collection.…

Reprinting an item from Forgotten New York The Book, which turns 20 years old this September; if you haven’t got it yet, there’s a link elsewhere on this page. Much…

THE spring and summer of 2020 was an interesting time to rove about with a camera. The Great Infection set in in March, and I limited myself to pacing around…

WHEN I grew up in Bay Ridge, I frequently traveled through neighboring Bensonhurst by bus or bike. I frequently think of NYC neighborhoods in sports terms, and I put Bay…