An unusual situation exists on a couple of street corners in Chelsea, where the Department of Transportation has allowed a pair of lampposts to illuminate 9th Avenue where one post…

Rudy’s Bakery & Café, 905 Seneca Ave. between Myrtle and Catalpa Avenues, has been in business for just over 80 years. The German word Konditorei can be translated as “cakes or baked…

Though green is the overwhelming frequency for street sign color in New York City, and most other locations, there was a time when blue was in second place. Blue was…

It’s amazing how you can work in an area for years and never notice something interesting in architecture or infrastructure. That’s the case here at 130 West 30th Street between…

Walking around the 57th Street area east of Columbus Circle, where there are so many gigantic towers going up at the moment, it’s easy to forget that there are still…

As many ForgottenFans know, I have been working in the Columbus Circle/Hells Kitchen region of late. On an after-work ramble, I headed east on West 58th Street and happened upon…

I’ve written about this fascinating mosaic sign at the Hunters Point Avenue #7 train station before, but it bears repeating. In the good old days, there was more than one…

The Queen Anne apartment building at the southwest corner of 9th Avenue and West 50th has a few years on the odometer — it was constructed by Ellsworth Striker in…

This is The Dog Ate My Homework edition of Forgotten New York. I had a page about 80% written about my adventures in Highland Park and Ridgewood Reservoir, but inexplicably,…

I hadn’t noticed this faux arrowhead Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority sign at Sanford Avenue and 162nd Street in Flushing, pointing the way to Throgs Neck. Traffic headed there would…

My fascination continues with the so-called “special posts” that lurked under elevated trains in the early 20th Century, especially in Manhattan. They seemed to be found most often under the…

Gre-Solvent soap, first produced in 1903, was the equivalent to Lava Soap (which in fact was a competitor since that brand launched in 1893). It was the soap used by…