By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post Tucked in a remote corner of north Queens, north and east of 45th Street and 19th Avenue and just west of the Rikers Island…

NOT since 2019 had I been in Canarsie, on the southeast end of Brooklyn facing Jamaica Bay. I just hadn’t had the opportunity. That year, I walked all the way…

Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…

CORONA, the neighborhood in Queens west of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, has three separate historic firehouses, one of which is still used for its original purpose. I recently noticed two of…

In this century, nearly every new high-rise in Manhattan is covered in glass with form, function, but no exterior ornamentation. On 42nd Street, the One Vanderbilt, Bank of America Tower,…

THE most unfortunate year for Queens in my recent memory must have been 2009. That was when the borough lost the Catholic-run Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica and St. John’s…

THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…

In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…

I was unsteadily rambling north on West 8th Street in Gravesend in November 2025 when, south of Kings Highway, I noticed some attached houses that were a “cut above” the…

HERE’S the DeVinne Press Building, 393-399 Lafayette on the NE corner of East 4th. When researching the building, from my Photo-Lettering type days I remembered the Bodoni-esque DeVinne type font. Theodore…

MOUNT Eden and Mount Hope are two communities in western Bronx along the Grand Concourse, which is built on a natural ridge. Mount Eden is an old name driving from…

JUST an everyday side street in Woodhaven, a short section of 102nd Avenue runs four blocks from 81st to 89th Street (some numbers are skipped) a block south of 101st…