LaTourette Park is a vast expanse…511 acres of parkland in the heart of Staten Island stretching from Seaview Hospital in Willowbrook southwest to Richmond Avenue near the Staten Island Mall,…

I’ve mentioned it before, but as a kid, maybe between 4 and 9 years of age, one parent or another took me for joyrides on local buses in Bay Ridge…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent One of the great roads of Brooklyn is Eastern Parkway, a designated city landmark, the city’s first Olmstedian parkway, a ribbon of greenery connecting Prospect…

Nobody asked me, but… Do the Jerome Avenues in the Bronx and Brooklyn have anything to do with each other? The Bronx Jerome Avenue runs for miles from the Major…

There are plenty of Dutch place names around town … Spuyten Duyvil, Knickerbocker, Onderdonk, and just about every name with a “Van” in front of it from Van Buren to…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On its route between Grand Army Plaza and Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway is a designated city scenic landmark, the first Olmstedian parkway. While its…

While the other kids were out playing stickball, running in the street or causing various ruckuses in the age before Xbox, I was busy in my room doing a singular…

Reading various online accounts, I’m aware that a lot of people have had a particularly bad year in 2020, from Covid and its consequences that I don’t have to enumerate…

As I’ve documented quite a bit on FNY, I worked in the Turtle Bay area in NYC from 1982-1988 and again, briefly, in 2018, at 216 East 45th Street. However,…

I was meeting my friend Vicki M. for lunch in Forest Hills and had exited the subway at the back end of the 71st/Continental Avenue station when I found myself…

I noticed that this FNY post from January 2011 hadn’t been brought over when the site was redesigned in early 2019, so I’ll repost it here… I was lurching and…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In my search for an exciting park by the ocean, my children have taken a liking to Beach 30th Street Playground in the Rockaways. There…