March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

When I snapped this shot looking east at Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard opposite Calvary Cemetery in 2011 I knew that I was taking a photo of one historic…

Though southern Brooklyn’s streets are dominated by numbered and lettered streets, over the past two centuries, things have shaken out to be rather interesting, nomenclature-wise. As always, the exceptions prove…

The Department of Transportation recently removed a vintage Type 24 hybrid Twin at the corner of 6th Avenue and Walker Street in Tribeca to effect street repairs. While I had…

Back in 2011, I got a photo of this temporary lamppost on 2nd Avenue, placed by the Department of Transportation while 2nd Avenue was being ripped up to build the…

Interstate 495 is a very long road. It runs from the Queens Midtown Tunnel all the way east to Riverhead in Suffolk County. It was built in segments beginning in…

Unlike Queens, which was in the midst of overhauling its street nomenclature in 1922, pushing out names and old numbered streets and instituting a borough-wide numbering system, the map of…

The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900). His successful practice, and fortunate real estate investments, allowed…

I keep meaning to explore Newark, NJ more frequently since I have made only a few forays into NYC’s westerly neighbor; I have visited Jersey City, Hoboken and even Hackensack…

Though they show up on maps as early as the 1940s, it wasn’t till the last couple of decades that a group of streets off St. Johns Avenue west of Tompkins…

The Vernon-Jackson #7 train stop in Hunters Point is one of my favorites. It was opened in June 1915 as one of the two original stations on what is today…

No, Wiman Place doesn’t look like much to write home to Mother about. It’s a two-bock, rubble-strewn alley tucked behind the historic St. Mary’s Church on Bay Street in Rosebank.…