I’ve been fond of showing excepts from a Dripps map of Queens County produced in 1852 (linked from here), showing roads that existed back then and explaining where they are…

On 6th Avenue looking north at West 14th Street, a changing of the lamppost guard is imminent. A brand new set of aluminum octagonal-shafted poles have just been installed, sporting…

A couple of years ago (as of January 2020) a short stretch of Henry Hudson Parkway between Riverside Drive / Staff Street and the Henry Hudson Bridge over the Harlem…

Word arrived midweek that Woodhaven’s nearly two-century institution, Neir’s Taven, 88th Avenue and 78th Street, would close on January 12, 2020. I have spent many happy times here, and it’s…

LaGuardia Airport was constructed in 1929 as Glenn Curtiss Field, and later, North Beach Airport, replacing a former North Beach amusement area called the Gala Amusement Park, opened in 1889…

Charles H. Fletcher began selling his Castoria, a mild stomach remedy for children, in 1871, acquiring the patent from its inventor Dr. Samuel Pitcher. The medicine was heavily promoted on ads…

Here’s an interesting tableau from 1962 on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue just east of Main Street in Flushing. It was, then as now, the terminal of the IRT…

I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…

As Forgotten NY fans know by now, I’m fascinated with New York City’s infrastructure and despite the subway’s overall failings, I’ve always had a soft spot for subway infrastructure; I…

My pal Sarah Celentano of the New-York Historical Society spent Christmas Eve 2019 at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and got some photos of the Christmas family plot. It’s one of…

There are a number of places around the world that bear the name Windermere; the original Windermere is England’s largest freshwater lake. New York City’s Windermere has been largely a…

Jackson Avenue begins an almost 100-mile run at Vernon Boulevard just north of Borden Avenue and the west end of the LIRR Queens yards. It was built as a toll…