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THE New York City Department of Transportation is having an argument with itself about what to call a lengthy east-west avenue in South Jamaica, on the north end of Addisleigh…
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I was pacing around the rim of Hudson Yards last week before joining the boys at Feile on West 33rd. Normally the place is jumping and tables were at a…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent To the south of Alley Pond Park is another sizable parcel of land that is lightly developed amid the tract housing and garden apartment monotony…
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CLARKSON Street runs between West Street and a rare intersection where four streets come together (I’ll get into that later). While slouching around in the West Village in the ungodly…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent NEW YORK is a city of numerous fortresses that never experienced a battle. Following the British occupation during the American Revolution, the city fortified…
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For my purposes the one-block stretch of 101st Avenue between Forbell and Drew Streets is one of the most unusual in the city. Why? Well, it’s the only street in…
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I was slouching around Gravesend for a couple of hours the first day of June, after taking the D train in from Manhattan. I was going to stay longer but…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent As a native of Bay Ridge who witnessed his neighborhood sliced by the highway and ramps of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Kevin Walsh has written extensively…
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By DONALD GILLIGANSpecial guest post In the beginning there was salt marsh as the hatched area in the accompanying map (Ca. 1890) indicates. The area outlined in red is where…
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In Corona, there’s a street that runs between two railroads that’s named for a racetrack. National Street, running diagonally in the Corona street grid, is the community’s main shopping strip,…
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Gantry State Park, on the Hunters Point waterfront facing Manhattan, is named for the massive cranes, known as gantries, that were used to load and unload rail car floats onto…
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In mid-February 2021, I was once again at my dentist’s office in Bay Ridge for some routine X-rays (no cavities were detected). There’s been a change there. I have been…