Inez Street is a dead end issuing from the north side of  fast and furious Hylan Boulevard at Lemon Creek Park, west of Seguine Avenue. This is an area that…

Many years ago, when Queens was a collection of small towns divided by acres of farms and fields, every town and city had its own street naming and numbering system. This…

    By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While traveling to the scenic Barretto Point Park in Hunts Point, Bronx, I experienced an unexpected Redbird sighting on Tiffany Street. This beloved subway…

During a recent stroll from Flushing to Jamaica down Parsons Boulevard, I was surprised to see this painted-on-bricks ad on the southwest corner of Parsons and Hillside Avenue had reappeared.…

I haven’t got much today except a look at this ancient, rusted signpost left over from the early days of the Grand Central Parkway, built from the Triboro Bridge to…

In this photo taken in early 1931, we are standing at two streets that don’t presently exist in the current form, or under the names shown on the photo. In 1931…

Back in the summer of 2012 I was wandering about in northern Riverdale at the Bronx-Westchester County city line. Hilly Spencer Avenue — named for Herbert Spencer, the British philosopher and…

As of August 2017, two separate sources have confirmed it: This vintage pair of street signs on Richmond Road and Court Place have vanished, likely into the scrap heap of…

In 2014, I wrote about the unusual pedestrian ramp arrangement at the Clearview Expressway and 39th Avenue in Bayside. In this situation, the Long Island Rail Road is bridged across…

I have spent some time in lower Manhattan of late — I gave a ForgottenTour in Battery Park in July 2017 — and always seem to find myself on lower…

From the archives, here’s a winter view of the Lefferts Boulevard Bridge spanning the Long Island Rail Road, one of the more unusual bridges in Queens. Why, you ask? It’s…

Continuing with my Vanished Elevated Lamps and the Lampposts That Lurked Under Them series I began with a post showing the 2nd-3rd Avenue El at Division and Allen Streets, I…