By a route obscure and lonely,    Haunted by ill angels only,    Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,    On a black throne reigns upright,    I have reached these lands but newly    From an ultimate dim Thule —    From a wild weird…

I got to thinking the other day (that’s always a dubious proposition; nothing but woe visits when I do that) about the streets in New York City that are “Little.”…

During the week I was scuttling around Floral Park, just south of Little Neck, testing out a healing sore calf and looking for some shade, since it was 95 degrees.…

I wanted to toss a page together quick and my thoughts turned to southern Brooklyn’s simple street naming scheme. The Town of Flatbush street naming system as devised in 1874…

On my Maspeth wanderings (I have Maspeth wanderings; Blissville wanderings; Richmondtown wanderings; Inwood wanderings; Gravesend wanderings; Wakefield wanderings; you get the picture) I have always been fascinated with Mazeau Street…

From beginning to end, from Brooklyn through Queens and into Nassau County, Linden Boulevard is one of NYC’s lengthiest thoroughfares, running a total of 12.3 miles. However it’s also unique…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the midst of the coronavirus crisis, nearly all aspects of the city’s public life have shut down to keep people away from each other.…

During this period of fear if not panic over the coronavirus that is sickening parts of the world (in March 2020) many non-New Yorkers would be surprised to know that…

A couple of years ago (as of January 2020) a short stretch of Henry Hudson Parkway between Riverside Drive / Staff Street and the Henry Hudson Bridge over the Harlem…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One of the most visible roads in southern Brooklyn and Queens is Linden Boulevard, which has its western start at Flatbush Avenue, running for six…

I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway, despite there being some…

A Forgotten Fan named Danny passed along several ancient map excerpts purporting a newly discovered ancient street in Sheepshead Bay. Me being me, I deduced straight away that it was…