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…

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…