A Forgotten Fan named Danny passed along several ancient map excerpts purporting a newly discovered ancient street in Sheepshead Bay. Me being me, I deduced straight away that it was…

I happened to be at Book Culture, a new independent bookstore on Jackson Avenue in Hunters Point, in March 2019 to attend a book signing: The Mets’ Art Shamsky and…

The MTA has recently been on a renovation kick, giving selected stations a refreshed look, with the addition of illuminated maps, service alteration boards (important these days, since there’s always…

Of all of New York City’s hundreds of subway stations, the Times Square Shuttle station is the one I’ve always found the most fascinating. The original IRT subway constructed from…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent stint in jury duty I had the opportunity to appreciate the detailed lobby mosaic in the otherwise understated Queens County Courthouse. I…

I haven’t explored the possibility of doing a FNY podcast, though it’s been broached before — I carry a camera and tell my stories mostly with photographs, which has nothing…

I was stumped on what to write about — I’ve been lethargic today and even napped from 1 to 2 PM — so I decided to go back to June…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent There is so much that can be said about Rochdale Village, the 120-acre co-op in southeastern Queens that was built on the site of a…

One of the few non-numbered north-south routes in New York City, Sutton Place and Sutton Place South are a block east of 1st Avenue and stand in for Avenue A…

by SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Across the street from the world-famous Central Park there is an older park that hosts the American Museum of Natural History. With a controversial museum…

BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent return to Mosholu Parkway in search of the long-buried Schuil Kill stream, I noticed a red-colored garage building on East Mosholu Parkway…

I was looking through a Rand McNally map of Brooklyn and parts of Queens produced in 1911 ( I bet you weren’t aware that Rand McNally was around back then)…