Bob Mulero, NYC’s King of Lampposts, tipped me off to one of the coolest things on toast I’ve seen in the NYC area recently. It’s this freestanding fire alarm, with…

March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

I keep meaning to explore Newark, NJ more frequently since I have made only a few forays into NYC’s westerly neighbor; I have visited Jersey City, Hoboken and even Hackensack…

I can’t afford to travel much anymore, but in the years from about 1985-2008, I managed to make one or two out of town trips per year, and roved about…

A recent mention by Natalia “The Saw Lady” Paruz about a Disston saw sparked a memory for me, of a Disston Street in Philadelphia, which I remembered from my intense…

These new street signs appear in Kensington, a tony subdivision of the town (or village; I’m too lazy to determine) of Great Neck, which is east of the undefined border of Queens…

Like most older cities, Philadelphia has done a good job rooting out and eradicating older cast-iron or wrought-iron lampposts, but here’s one it hasn’t found, perhaps the last dinosaur of…

Though Fort Totten, the former military base at Willets Point in Bayside, has been in my “back yard” so to speak ever since 1993, when I moved to Flushing, and…

I wish I could do more traveling than I do. In 2005, I began an initiative called Forgotten Boston with the aid of firefighter and Boston resident Sean Colby, in…

There are a number of high, unadorned brick towers in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other eastern cities. Known as shot towers, they were used in manufacturing ammunition in the early to…

I have to admit, this one fooled me just a little. Several years ago I was wandering on Mundy Lane, the road separating the Bronx’s Eastchester neighborhood from Mount Vernon,…

I worked in Port Washington, NY for 12 years at Publishers Clearing House, which this week moved out to Jericho in mid-Island. I still have an optometrist in town and,…