The last “humpback” of the thousands that served Manhattan and the Bronx barely made it into the 21st Century at a Bronx intersection you’ve never heard of (and one I’d…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Remember E.J. Korvettes, Woolworths, A&S, Coward Shoes, Gage & Tollner, Mays and Martins?  If you’re a Brooklynite of a certain age, you will.  The…

I did a presentation on Monday, March 7, 2016 in Astoria about Travis, Staten Island, a place formerly known as Linoleumville, where between 1873 and 1931 there was a large…

Now home to the Prop N Spoon Company, which provides props for retail shows and conventions, and the City View Racquet Club, this building which fills an entire block and…

Many of the streets in Williamsburg and northern Bedford-Stuyvesant are named for signers of the Declaration of Independence. Not every signer is represented, but most are. Ben Franklin, George Clymer,…

Samuel Klein founded the discount chain S. Klein in 1906, with the flagship store at Union Square East and East 14th Street, and the business eventually grew as large as…

Sicilian immigrant Joseph Bari opened his first pizzeria in 1973, purchasing a –what else — Ray’s Pizza at 3rd Avenue and East 76th Street and renaming it for himself, in…

Looking up from the commercial building at the NE corner of 31st Street and Broadway under the Astoria elevated, there’s a blue and white sign proclaiming 31st Street to be…

A “hat tip” for ForgottenFan Paul Lukas of Uniwatch fame for finding this painted sign at a bar in Gravesend between West 9th and 10th Streets on Kings Highway at…

I’m a Long Island Rail Road rider, so my experiences with the great Grand Central Terminal, which for the past few decades has been reduced to serving the commuter trains…

by GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent   It seems like “mom and pop” businesses are closing at a rapid pace in NYC.  Small bakeries, pizzerias, hardware stores, donut shops have…

Nothing fancy in Forgotten New York for this week’s feature. Just a presentation of some photos of Manhattan and Bronx’ classic navy blue and white street signs, first installed in…