By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor FORT Totten is a military base dating back to 1862 and located in northeast Queens, near the Throgs Neck Bridge at Willets Point. It was…

WHENEVER a road deviates from the street grid, parcels too small to be developed often become parks, some fortunate to have benches or monuments, with most of them hosting shrubs…

THE colonial-era Lefferts family is remembered in Kings and Queens Counties, from the Lefferts Gardens neighborhood east of Prospect Park to Lefferts Avenue in Propect Heights to Lefferts Boulevard in…

by PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of The New York Transit museum and part of the celebrations include screening of several films that feature the…

FORGOTTEN New York has been put together during four separate decades and is now been produced for 27 years plus, as of September 2026. As such, it spans the decades.…

SPUYTEN Duyvil’s Edsall Avenue, adjoining the Harlem River at the Spuyten Duyvil Metro-North station, is among New York City’s oddest streets. Like a Mobius strip it has no clear beginning…

Having documented a long-demolished bathhouse across the street from John Jay Park on the Upper East Side, I learned that it had a Beaux Arts counterpart on the west side…

HIDING in plain sight on a Williamsburg corner, #85 Broadway at Berry Street, is a one-story building, a shack really, that has been a diner for the better part of…

In this century it is more common for the city to demap streets than to add new roads as it wages an ongoing war on cars. That’s why I was…

Is the Studebaker Building on the NE corner of Bedford Avenue and Sterling Place the most beautiful building on Bedford Avenue? It’s certainly the best-preserved building associated with the defunct…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY contributor I’m the type of person who will take the first available spot and walk a while, rather than circulating around looking for a close-up spot…

On a scenic bluff overlooking The Narrows, 19th century Bay Ridge was a refuge from city life with the views and breezes from this vital waterway. Insititutions valued such places…