While stumbling around Corona today, I was looking for odd bits of infrastructure that pointed the way to the past. They’re not hard to find because Corona is a rather…

The word “peregrine” originally meant “foreign or outlandish” but today, the term applies only to the peregrine falcon, the fastest bird in the world. According to the National Geographic, peregrine…

Flatbush Avenue cuts across the Park Slope grid on a diagonal, making it a convenient place to put a subway line and indeed, two separate subway lines employ it, the…

The FNY Tour of September 8, 2019 took us once again to the Westchester Square area, the site of two previous tours. There’s a lot of history concentrated in the…

Now that my latest 20th Anniversary presentation has come and gone (at SoHo’s Museum of Interesting Things) I can post some vintage images again from the Dawn of Forgotten NY,…

Once again, another obligation-packed weekend and work week under way, with actual paying work obligations combined with tour planning, actual tours and dentist appointments, and I’ve little time again to…

On a jaunt crossing the 3rd Street Bridge spanning the Gowanus Canal in 2014, I spotted the gigantic neon Kentile Floors billboard on 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues…

Matty Alou (1938-2011) was a National League batting champion from the Dominican Republic. Though he never resided in New York City, Dominicans in Washington Heights and Inwood point with pride…

This lamp, at the Central Park entrance at 5th Avenue and East 60th Street, was donated by Hamburg, West Germany in 1979 and is a replica of an ornate lamp found…

I worked at a very small design firm copy editing and proofreading financial PowerPoint slides from May through August 2019 at 1740 Broadway, the “MONY, MONY” building near Columbus Circle.…

Fraunces Tavern, at Pearl and Broad streets, is one of Downtown’s most popular tourist attractions and so it’s hardly “forgotten.” It’s a museum and somewhat pricey restaurant combined into one.…

Jason Antos recently snapped this photo of a near-pristine Coca-Cola ad at 23-08 Jackson Avenue near the #7 train overpass; the Court Square station is nearby. The ad is from…