YOU have probably never heard of James Weir, he lived and died in the 19th Century. But his fingerprints can still be found in Brooklyn. Montague Street in recent years…

I think it was about a year ago when I set off a Facebook war of sorts when I featured a well-known Gravesend institution, L&B Spumoni Gardens on 86th Street.…

BEFORE anyone says anything —since Forgotten New York can be the headquarters of Nitpickers International at times — yes, I know there are five shots on this One Shots page.…

THE country of Lebanon, wedged along the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Syria, pops up here and there on New York city maps. There had been a Lebanon Terrace in…

In November 2021 I lit off for a walk through Elmhurst that wound me up at the Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road station in Flushing Meadows, which I’ve found…

THIS photo from the 1940 NYC Municipal Archives of the SE corner of Jerome Avenue and East Fordham Road has been making the Facebook rounds, at least my humble corner…

BACK in November 2021 I was furtively creeping west along 35th Avenue in Long Island City for the want of anything else to do (it was a Sunday, and both…

YOU can’t tell by the Forgotten New York website design in which red and white dominate, but in actuality, black and yellow is my favorite color combination even though I…

HERE’S a look at the westbound exit ramp of the Queens-Midtown tunnel the year it opened, in 1940. To an infrastructure buff, there are several interesting things going on here.…

NEW York City’s largest train yard, Sunnyside Yard, is indeed vast. When I took the Long Island Rail Road to Manhattan every day, I rode the tracks going south of…

LOWERY Street is, or was, one of many north-south parallel streets in Sunnyside. It received a number, 40, during the 1920s. For an unprepossessing side street, the Department of Transportation…

“I know what I am, I’m glad I’m a man, and so’s Lola,” Ray Davies of the Kinks once sang. It’s good to know what you are. I’m not a…