QUITE possibly the shortest named street in Queens can be found issuing from Northern Boulevard at 37th Avenue, dead ending at the Sunnyside rail yards after just a few feet.…

IMAGINE my surprise when I learned that Atlantic Avenue, one of the lengthiest streets in NYC, divided about equally between Brooklyn and Queens, had been extended for about a block…

LOCATED between West 94th and 95th Streets west of Broadway, Pomander Walk is the only Manhattan thoroughfare named for a stage play. The play – itself named for a London…

I have been going through a batch of photos from southern Staten Island I took in January 2020 I haven’t gotten around to using yet. Have you ever seen a…

Back in 2016 I was enthusiastically noting Bartunek Hardware’s ancient sign at its #28-07 23 Avenue location, nearby the Ditmars Boulevard N train station. The store has been in business…

EAST of 3rd Avenue East 17th Street enters the Stuyvesant Square Landmarked District, established in 1975, and therefore you can look up building origins in the district’s online version. While…

Forgotten New York correspondent and President of the Newtown Historical Society Christina Wilkinson found this sign on a telephone pole at 155th Avenue and Huron Street in Howard Beach, just…

In July, during a temporary cessation of the insane heat and humidity, I walked past a simple building with a wide red door at #411 Kent, just south of Broadway.…

I may need to take a weekend off from posting. My new computer has arrived, and things aren’t as simple as just plugging it in. I need to migrate a…

WHEN traveling on Northern Boulevard (25A) east of Route 101 (Port Washington Boulevard) one of the abiding mysteries, to me at least, is the presence of these scrolled masts seen…

“MOVIE Mike” Olshan, who has been with me on a number of Forgotten New York tours, sent me this detail at #315 Park Avenue South, at the southeast corner of…

SORRY I “buried the lede” in the title, but I didn’t see any other way around it. In the spring I was wandering in Park Slope, the same day that…