A consequence of the construction of various bridges connecting Staten Island to surrounding territories has been the end of its myriad of ferry services. The empire of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt…
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In 2009, the Department of Transportation posted a Lincoln Highway sign in the maroon color generally used to denote NYC Landmarked districts at West 42nd Street and Broadway in Times…
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St. George, Staten Island was named not for the Roman noble, later martyred, who in fable slew a dragon, but rather for a land baron named George Law, who had acquired Staten…
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Standing on Avenue V just west of 86th Street in Gravesend is one of NYC’s very few decorative structures associated with its sewers, all due respects for the gigantic…
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While making my way around Greenpoint in December 2017 (the full journey will turn up on FNY at length) I noticed several items around the neighborhood bestowed with the title…
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I had every intention of doing a ForgottenTour in Fort Greene in June 2016, but a bad back got in the way and I never rescheduled it. Perhaps in…
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For a long time I have been interested in the terra cotta plaques on Intermediate School 234 in Tribeca, that depict scnes of a long-gone Manhattan era including the old…
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When I began riding the Long Island Rail Road on a daily basis in 1992 for a job in Port Washington, the M3 car you see here, first built in…
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It looks like the time has come to say sayonara to a relatively unchronicled and unappreciated genre of lampposts I call the New Gumballs because of their spherical shape and resemblance…
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From the Bob Mulero archives comes this photo of the Excelsior Power Company Building, 33 Gold Street between Fulton and John Streets, where Gold meets the tiny Edens Alley. It…
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It might be time to begin saying goodbye to the R-46 subway car, which currently works the A, F and R subway lines; in fact the A fleet is still…
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Today, January 28, 2018, is the 32nd anniversary of the failure of the NASA shuttle Challenger, which catastrophically broke apart shortly after takeoff on 1/28/1986. “NASA managers had known since 1977…