In late 2025, Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., opened the doors to its new six-story building , the latest chapter for this…

AMONG the buildings which I forgot to describe in my recent essay on Pacific Park in Brooklyn is the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph on Pacific Street (previously seen on this…

PICTURED here is Women’s Plaza, on the north side of Queens Boulevard at Union Turnpike (here the service road of the Jackie Robinson Parkway). I got this image from Google…

From the Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Seven Seas Restaurant, Surf Avenue at West 16th Street, in 1985. I don’t know much about the…

In December 2025 I took a quick walk in the Rockefeller Center pedestrian passage beneath 6th Avenue for six blocks between 47th and 53rd Streets, accessible in its south end…

In the early years of this website, Kevin Walsh returned to Atlantic Yards (Now known as Pacific Park) on many occasions, documenting the transformation of a railyard and former meatpacking…

At the height of Manhattan’s decades as a maritime shipping hub, there were 99 numbered piers between Battery Park and 59th Street. Each one represented a specific freight, passenger, and…

OVER the years, fading ad historian Kevin Jump and Forgotten-NY founder Kevin Walsh have documented numerous examples of painted ads across the city for loan broker J.J. Friel. They’ve seen…

In the northeast corner of the Bronx, Pelham Bay Park takes up nearly 2776 acres, the city’s largest park. Its namesake is the Pell family, which had a colonial period…

Facing the Long Meadow in Prospect Park are two historic buildings, unique in their design but diverging in their history with the Picnic House open to the public for events,…

In the New Brighton neighborhood of Staten Island, Jersey and York streets run parallel to each other, with a steep slope between them, part of the borough’s complex geology. Kevin…

AROUND the corner from the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue at 6 East 87th Street in a private alley is a detailed statue more worthy of a public space, known…