Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue and 110th Street at the northeast end of Central Park, features these last surviving examples of leaf-scrolled “Corvingtons” ( coined the name “Leafies” for them) that…

It’s always a sad day when any mass transit is eliminated, and it was indeed in August 1942 when the Second Avenue El was taken down. This shot shows a workman…

The latest Google Street View reveals that this arrowhead sign (I photographed in 2012) pointing the way to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge has been duly expunged from the perch it had…

Fire Patrol #2, on #84 West 3rd between Thompson and Sullivan, looks a great deal like New York City firehouses built in the early 20th Century and has embellishments like…

At a width of just 25 feet total, Exchange Alley is the thinnest street in Manhattan that is open to vehicular traffic. It runs one block between Broadway and Trinity…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent On my way, going southbound on the Grand Concourse, I got caught by a red light at E. 188th Street.  While waiting for it…

Ludwig von Beethoven Concert Grove is a formal European-style garden designed to look out over a small island in Prospect Park Lake containing a performance stage where the popular bands…

I worked in Port Washington, NY for 12 years at Publishers Clearing House, which this week moved out to Jericho in mid-Island. I still have an optometrist in town and,…

I have always been fascinated by street remnants, such as a small piece of Avenue Y in Bensonhurst here, or a bit of Linden Boulevard over there in Ozone Park. In…

I was shuffling about on Broadway and West 262nd Street in Riverdale waiting for the Bx9 bus (a third of my life is asleep, and another third is waiting for…

A sharp-eyed Gary Fonville found an old 7-Up sign, as well as the word “Midget,” in back of a newer vinyl awning on East Tremont Avenue in Westchester Square recently.…

Morningside Avenue is  one of the shortest of Manhattan’s north-south avenues, running just 14 blocks from Manhattan Avenue and West 113th to West 127th and Convent, running along Morningside Park. If…