From Paul Lukas of Uni Watch comes this extraordinary find: The demolition of some buildings on the south side of Flatbush Avenue between 5th Avenue and Pacific Street reveals this…

Hegney Place is one of those “ghost streets” that has never quite been expunged. The Department of Transportation chooses to mark it at both Westchester Avenue and at East 157th…

Tonsor Street runs from Metropolitan Avenue at Andrews Avenue three blocks southeast to Greene Avenue in Ridgewood. Toward its north end it makes a dramatic curve on a hill, permitting a view…

Just a quickie on this Thanksgiving Day. Here’s an unusual partnership in Bayside — there are usually separate poles for street signs and stop signs, even though stop signs are…

I don’t spend nearly enough time in the recesses of the Lower East Side, though I have done reviews of both Stanton and Rivington Streets, back in 2009. Over the years…

This underwear wholesaler/retailer at 339 Grand Street and Ludlow not only has its 1940s painted sidewalk sign still intact, albeit peeling just a bit by now, but the building in which…

I discovered a very old lane in Charleston, or Kreischerville, Staten Island on 10/1/17 in an unusual circumstance: A Forgotten New York tour I was leading. The group was making…

Pictured here, at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street, my former address in eastern Flushing, are new and old methods of indicating a fire alarm is nearby. On the bottom is…

photo: Greater Astoria Historical Society Today, subways are identified by pretty much everyone in NYC by their letter or number. This is a convention that has been in place going…

This rather nondescript factory building at Jamaica Avenue and 184th Place in Hollis produced the stuff that kids’ dreams were made of for Ideal Toys for several decades from the…

At the end of yet another ForgottenTour some of the faithful and I were making our way to the traditional diner stop (in this case, the Coral, at Broadway and West 158th)…

The scene here is looking east on Myrtle Avenue at Prince Street in late 1970. As documented by Bill Mangahas of Newkirk Images, the Myrtle Avenue El has just been…