I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…

YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…

THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…

THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…

VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…

UNTIL 1926 the northern end of Claremont Park in the Bronx was bordered by a single lane street first called Walnut, for numerous walnut trees in the area, and then…

A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained…

TURNOUT was a bit down, but nonetheless enthusiastic, for Forgotten NY’s Sunnyside tour on a drizzly day in October 2018. Here the group is photographed at the Sunnyside Doughboy in…

I wish I knew how to read an armillary. Its four intersecting hoops were teaching tools that illustrated the geocentric universe. With a model of Earth at their center, the…

HERE’S Willoughby Street in the fall of 2017 on an impassably busy weekday afternoon. I don’t look back on my unemployed days in the 2010s with much fondness with the…

DELICATESSEN Lassen and Hennig has been in business in Brooklyn in various locations since 1949, as the sign indicates. Currently, it is located on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights (this…

ANOTHER one will soon bite the dust. While other venerable police precincts around town have been shored up and restored recently, the 65th (and later the 73rd) Precinct building, East…