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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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On a Sunday in January 2019, I decided to walk up and down the east-west streets of the northwest region of Greenwich Village, noting that I hadn’t yet taken a…
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On a Sunday in January 2019, I decided to walk up and down the east-west streets of the northwest region of Greenwich Village, noting that I hadn’t yet taken a…