I don’t fly often — not because I fear flying. As Superman says, it’s the safest possible way to travel. I just don’t have the dough to go flying here…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Whenever I’m in need of a nostalgia trip for a taste of the old country I revisit Brighton Beach. Architecturally the neighborhood always satisfies. It…

Believe it or not there are times when I get a bit less enthusiastic about Forgotten New York. The worst times for this are the times I am especially busy…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On July 25, 2019 the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea received its first new park in 40 years, with the opening of the .23-acre midblock green…

I have always considered the massive concrete arches that lift railroad tracks to the Hell Gate Bridge over the streets of northwest Astoria almost as imposing as the arch bridge itself.…

I recently took a walk on the east-west streets in lower Manhattan looking for oddities and anachronisms. There aren’t many 19th-century buildings surviving on John Street in lower Manhattan, but…

Every so often retired MTA bus driver Gary Fonville sends me some things he’s found, having spotted them on his old bus routes or in the trains. As often as…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the map of southern Queens the most visible grid-defying road is Rockaway Boulevard, which runs for 9.5 miles from the Brooklyn-Queens border at Eldert…

I have been walking quite bit in the warrens of lower Manhattan lately, noticing what others ignore. I revisited Nassau Street in SpliceToday a short time ago, and took care…

In March 2019 I was on my way to Canal Street to begin my first-ever walk there when I stopped off in some less-well-known SoHo enclaves to take a look.…

Just north of Brooklyn Bridge, Pearl Street begins a turn to the northwest and acted, at the time, as a divider between the street pattern of lower Manhattan and the…

March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…