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One constant in the Coney Island scene at Surf and Stillwell Avenues since 1916 has been Nathan’s Famous, Charles Feltman was the purported inventor of the hot dog (it was…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Interstate 495 is a very long road. It runs from the Queens Midtown Tunnel all the way east to Riverhead in Suffolk County. It was built in segments beginning in…
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The Vernon-Jackson #7 train stop in Hunters Point is one of my favorites. It was opened in June 1915 as one of the two original stations on what is today…
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As I have related in FNY over the past year (2018), four elevated stations of the Astoria Line were closed for several months and then reopened with a radical new…
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ForgottenFan Allan Rosen checks in with a long-outdated sign in Brighton Beach. “The B21 last ran on December 11, 1978, over 40 years ago, but this sign remained on Brighton…
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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…
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A bit short on time today, so I thought I would do a short item on the unique Flushing Meadows-Corona Park signage, which uses different fonts than other fonts used…