WHAT could this handsome carriage house at #159 East 69th Street between Lexington and 3rd Avenue have to do with the former Serval Zipper factory, now a U-Haul distributorship on…

AL SMITH (1873-1944), is interred in Calvary Cemetery in Blissville, Queens. He was Governor of New York State for four two-year terms (elected in 1918, 1922, 1924 and 1926) and the…

I have visited Rosebank often during over two decades of Forgotten NY. It’s is a pleasant village in southeast Staten Island with tree-lined streets filled with venerable old homes that…

If I was ever in the Continental, 3rd Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, the memory has slipped between the cracks in my head as I don’t recall it. I do…

As a native Brooklynite (I carefully try to excise any Brooklynishness from my accent, since I’ve always wondered what New Yorkers in general have against a final “r” in words…

THE twin towers of St. Aloysius (pronounced “alla WISH us”) Roman Catholic Church at Stockholm Street and Onderdonk Avenue can be seen for miles in Ridgewood and nearby Maspeth. It…

HIDDEN histories abound in New York City’s street names. In Gravesend, a one-block street, Boynton Place, connects West 7th Street and Avenue X between 86th Street and the MTA’s Coney…

Why would there be a Toledo Court at 92-30 56th Avenue in Elmhurst, adjacent to Elmhurst Park and close by Queens Center Mall? The answer, it would seem, is that…

I am having a hernia fixed on Monday, September 18, so will be taking a few days off from Forgotten NY and “real work” for rest and recuperation. Post-op, my…

TODAY’S view in older Queens takes us back to 1937 and this view of Saultell Avenue looking north toward Corona Avenue/111th Street, with the still undeveloped Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in…

EAST Flatbush and Flatlands comprise block upon block of neat, well-kept detached homes, with an occasional shopping strip and apartment building for contrast. Its southern flank, Mill Basin, was the…

BEFORE the land between Elmhurst and Flushing was developed in the 1850′s, there were only a dozen families living in the area. From the highest point on a hill 108…