THERE’S a two-block stretch of Laurel Hill Boulevard between 65th Place and 67th Street independent of the BQE, and the block between 66th and 67th Streets actually has residences and…

I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…

I am old. Impossibly old. Older than you imagine. Older than you can imagine. And I have returned to work fulltime, with Marquis Who’s Who, albeit via my home computer.…

Once again I have a weekend “off” when I turn things over to Sergey Kadinsky, who is ubiquitous. –Editor By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE Bronx has a history…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE last civilian passenger car traveled on the internal roads of Central Park on June 26, 2018, as bike activists and joggers celebrated the…

AMBOY Road, seen here near Nelson Avenue Giffords Lane in Great Kills, is one of the lengthiest routes in Staten Island, splitting off from Richmond Road in New Dorp and…

DYER Avenue is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten New York item, as it’s one of the most car-trafficked roads in New York City. Indeed it’s nearly impossible to walk…

THERE’S something odd about Caldwell Avenue in Queens, which runs from 68th Street at Mount Olivet Cemetery east and southeast to Dry Harbor Road at about 84th Street, though it’s…

As many Forgotten NY fans know, I’m attracted to the odd roads that defy the grid, because often they point the way to preexisting roads that existed in the past.…

There is a small cluster of streets south of the Fort Hamilton Parkway border with Green-Wood Cemetery between 36th Street and Dahill Road, where the streets have four women’s names…

On a whim, I decided to walk the entire lengths of two Flushing roads for which I have always had some fascination, Station and Depot Roads in Flushing and Auburndale.…

69th Street in Woodside and Maspeth hasn’t been known as Fisk Avenue for several decades…except on the 69th Street platform of the #7 Flushing Line el, where the ancient name…