A short while ago I wrote a piece that showed you all the streets that carry presidential names in NYC, whether or not they were actually named for presidents. This…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the crowded Lower East Side of Manhattan there is a linear park covering seven blocks between Houston and Canal Streets. It is the product…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Across the city there are neighborhoods that are “parks” in name only, with only a handful of playgrounds providing much-needed public open space. Rego Park,…

Central Park’s Pilgrim Hill can be found just inside the park entrance at 5th Avenue and 72nd Street and takes its name from the stylized representation of one of the…

2019 was Forgotten New York’s biggest year in quite a few, as the website’s 20th anniversary was celebrated by two feature articles in the New York Post (by Hana Alberts)…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the section of Manhattan dubbed Two Bridges on some maps but known to local residents as part of the Lower East Side is a…

by SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Kevin Walsh has been to the Bronx neighborhood of Bedford Park in 2008, but his observations were limited to the sidewalk. With historical maps and…

Walk east a couple of blocks on East 121st from Mount Morris Park — between Lexington and 3rd Avenue — and you will find a majestic, Gothic and Romanesque building…

Two war veterans’ monuments, erected in 1927 and 1989, face each other across Rockaway Beach Boulevard between Beach 94th and 95th Streets on the peninsula. One of a number of…

A piece this week in Untapped Cities about Chumley’s, the “secret speakeasy” on Bedford Street in Greenwich Village that recently reopened after 10 years of renovations got me thinking about…

What to do when two streets in the same borough have the exact same name? Nothing much, but it’s a rarity in New York City. This is deliberate. The opposite…

Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850-1917) has been in the news recently. The Catholic saint, born in Lodi on the Italian peninsula (then a part of the Austrian empire) became a nun…