Few neighborhoods in NYC have been changing as quickly as the Hunters Point and Dutch Kills neighborhoods near Queensboro Plaza in LIC, where a Glass House Gang of supertall residential…

I was surprised to find a remaining ITT Model 25 in Woodlawn during the week. Most 1970s-era lights were purged for new sodium vapor models in 2009, only to be…

I was knocking around Woodlawn (some call it Woodlawn Heights) in the dead dog 76-dew point heat on the 4th of July when, instead of  indulging at a Carvel, I…

While most of NYC’s Jews belong to the Ashkenazim (German) or the Sephardim (Spain-Portugal) there is a third faction, the Romaniotes, whose roots go back to Greece. This, the only Romaniote…

I have long been curious about Ozone Park, especially in the region around Cross Bay Boulevard north of the Belt Parkway. It was easily reachable for me via bicycle from…

I was staggering across the Pulaski Bridge across the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek one recent afternoon, near-crazed from the abominable 85-degree heat and pounding sun, when I was privileged…

I was fascinated with this view I got through a slight opening in a plywood fence on 32nd Street north of 38th Avenue in Astoria. I have no idea how…

It’s not mentioned often but Astoria and its neighbor Ravenswood were once a hotbed for silk manufacture and production. Several remaining buildings scattered over the region are former silk production…

Tucked away at #400 West 148th Street off St. Nicholas Avenue is a bit of New York City music history. The 400 Tavern operated at this address from the 1940s…

I’m not sure if I’ll ever get out to Los Angeles again… I have visited twice, 28 years apart, in 1962 (when I was four and have little recollection) and…

I’ve always been attracted to collonnaded architecture and my “jones” is partially fulfilled on West 13th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue where there is a former church that has…

When I began Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of original Type F castirons around, at far flung locations such as SUNY Maritime campus at Fort Schuyler…