Update, 11/20/20: FNY is continuing despite recent server issues. We have begun FNY’s “ForgottenTours Indoors” series; check each week for notices. Hopefully we can do one or two per month…

Angry clouds set off the Church of the Immaculate Conception, East Gun Hill Road and Holland Avenue. The church was founded in 1902, with the original building on Briggs Avenue…

I had no idea I would be writing about either Donald Byrd or Teasdale Place in the Bronx today, since I was scouring Google Street View looking for something else,…

Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…

There’s only one Ireland Street in New York City, and I’m not sure it honors the Emerald Isle at all. It’s part of many groupings of streets in Queens (and…

The Webster Apartments, an impressive brick 13-story building at West 34th Street and Dyer Avenue (the entrance ramp to the Lincoln Tunnel) has provided affordable accommodations for NYC’s “working girls”…

A tavern serving Greek-American delicacies called Death Avenue has held down the northwest corner of 10th Avenue and West 28th Street since 2017. This seems like a fatalistic name for…

I have a backlog of photos from a walk I did in May, 2019, scouting a Fort Wadsworth Forgotten NY tour and I walked from the fort almost all the…

Here’s an interesting (well, to me) map of Queens prepared by Ohman Maps in 1936. It shows the entire route of the recently-shuttered Whitestone Branch of the Long Island Railroad,…

Though western Queens is well-known for its vast cemeteries, there are also a number of very small ones. A small section of Juniper Valley Park at Juniper Blvd. North and…

I’m planning a big series in Forgotten New York — I have been walking the downtown numbered streets from east to west, or vice versa, looking for interesting stuff. Surprisingly,…

The Demarest Building is a Beaux-Arts era building on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and East 33rd Street, across the street from the Empire State Building, which it preceded…