Above: 6-1/2 Avenue at West 55th Street By the first decade of the 19th Century, New York City was beginning to outgrow the small area at the tip of Manhattan…

Flushing’s architecture becomes rather drab once you depart from the historic areas along Northern Boulevard or just south of it. Most of the idiosyncrasies and varied elements have been stamped…

In an obscure corner of Ozone Park, at 149th Avenue and Redding Street a block west of the pedal-to-the-metal Cross Bay Boulevard, you can find one of Queens’ many vest…

The hulking Hutwelker Building (I couldn’t resist) stands at the SE corner of 5th Avenue and 19th Street in south Park Slope, 5 blocks away from Green-Wood Cemetery. A beautiful…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent How many of us have walked by this building at 242 W. 31st Street , across from Madison Square Garden, and never gave it…

The Brooklyn Army Terminal, once a huge part of Brooklyn’s maritime manufacturing scene, was completed by famed architect Cass Gilbert in 1918 and is situated between 2nd Avenue, the waterfront,…

Until March 16, 1998 the LIRR stopped at Penny Bridge…admittedly, only three times daily. Trains had stopped at Penny Bridge since 1878; at one time it had a busy Calvary…

I was staggering around in the Upper West Side on a Sunday afternoon, nearly delirious from the insane 75-degree dewpoint, when I stumbled on a classic car on West 74th…

A quartet of some of NYC’s oldest lampposts of modern design can be found on The 65th Street Transverse Road, at the east and westbound separated lanes, facing 5th Avenue…

The west side of 6th Avenue between West 48th between West 48th and west 51st Streets is home to 4 gargantuan office buildings, each with a building number ending in…

Though a rough grid has been in command of the Queens street layout as dozens of separate housing developments knit together disparate small towns in Queens over the decades of…

The late Yumi Heo’s stained glass artwork series, Q Is For Queens, found in the 33rd, 40th and 46th Street stations on the Flushing Line #7, has been endlessly fascinating…