I have been looking back on ForgottenTours of the past, reminiscing somewhat because for a variety of reasons, including the Pandemic, I have not been able to do a live…
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THOUGH I do a lot of history in Forgotten New York, it’s ultimately a site about infrastructure…I have been taking a keen interest in things like stoplights and lampposts since…
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We found two classics in one on this Forgotten NY tour in 2019 in the Gowanus Canal region in Brooklyn. In the foreground is a dayburning Type B Henry Bacon…
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THE blue and white 60-foot by 60-foot Columbia University “C” on the Marble Hill side of the Harlem River has been painted and repainted on the gneiss rock facing the…
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OLEAN Street, in the heart of Brooklyn in Midwood, runs for two diagonal blocks between East 22nd and East 24th Streets between Avenues N and O. In a confusing situation…
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In a little-known quirk of geography, a small piece of the borough of Manhattan, known as Marble Hill, is on the mainland. It is surrounded on three sides by the…
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THE Huntington Free Library in Westchester Square, Bronx (where Westchester and East Tremont Avenues get together) is a small, dark brownstone building with an arched front door with a chiseled…
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No sooner had I learned about the imminent demise of the 19th-Century Ryder-Van Cleef House in Gravesend than I was notified about the destruction of the Wilhelmus Stoothoff House a…
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RYDER-Van Cleef House, constructed in 1840 by Lawrence Ryder, stood at 26 Village Road north before it was moved to #38 in 1930. A Ryder daughter married a Van Cleef,…
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On May 16, 1857 land comprising 100 acres at Willets Point in northeast Queens was acquired from the Willet family by the government, and six years later, additional acreage was…
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SADLY the Narrows Coffee Shop closed in 2020, and I only had the pleasure of eating there once. At #10001 4th Avenue, it’s one of a handful of addresses in…
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BROOKLYN has a lengthy Park Avenue, as does Manhattan and the Bronx. In Manhattan, Park Avenue, for its entire length, was once 4th Avenue, though only a short section remains…