There’s an unmarked dead end on the east side of Eagle Avenue south of Westchester Avenue in Melrose in the Bronx. Though it’s gated off now, it certainly appears as…
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On the West Broadway side of the handsome brick building at the NW corner of West Broadway and Warren Street (specifically, 82 West Broadway) is a reminder of one of West…
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I set my H.G. Wells model time machine for 1965, not too long ago this time, and so was not overly dizzy from whizzing through the years. After awhile you…
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I haven’t been able to get outside NYC much… unemployment gives me the time, but not the money. However, I have ambitions of expanding Forgotten New York to include the…
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Domesticated birds of prey such as falcons, hawks and eagles can be trained to locate prey for human owners. Falconers train their namesake bird while austringers train hawks and eagles. Red-tailed hawks…
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You’re looking at an increasingly vanishing lamppost specimen located at 5th Ave. and E. 61st Street, in front of the Pierre luxury skyscraper hotel. Slotted Donald Deskey lampposts, designed by…
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The J.M. Horton Ice Cream Company used to be a big deal. If you look at postcards showing NYC neighborhood scenes in the early 20th Century, a Horton’s ice cream…
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Louis Mattia ran a lamp repair shop on 2nd Avenue off East 52nd Street from 1960 to 1995. His impressive aqua green sidewalk sign, with gold serif lettering and PL(aza)…
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Forgotten Fan Rolando Pujol provided this shot of a small shack on East 180th Street just east of Crotona Avenue and the ancient neon Crotona TV sign. The neon has…
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A sign advertising a long-ago NFL football game appears atop 1261 Broadway between West 31st and 32nd Streets, which runs through to 6th Avenue. The ad runs across the length…
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On a recent Staten Island Ferry ride in Upper New York Bay, I snapped this photo of the tug Lyman hauling an oil tank. The Lyman is one of the more…
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James J. Walker Park was once an uptown branch of Trinity Cemetery, established in 1801 as a churchyard for the long-razed St. John’s Chapel; it was bordered by Hudson, Carmine,…