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At Ralph Avenue and Flatlands at the west end of Canrsie, near the old Canarsie High School, there’s a handsome brick building with arched windows, with entablature proclaiming it to be…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook has been the subject of numerous Forgotten-NY photo essays over the years. On account of its geographic isolation,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years it has been the norm in New York to demap streets by transforming them into plazas, or to give them “road…

I was reminded of Astoria’s past when making my way up 32nd Street during the week. A pair of apartment buildings at 31-15 and 31-19, between 3rd Avenue and Broadway,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the south side of Prospect Park is a 40-acre superblock that opened shortly after the park and designated as a military parade ground.…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The map of Staten Island is filled with former “company towns” such as Linoleumville, Kreischerville, Port Mobil, and Port Ivory. Then there’s Graniteville, which was…

Pembroke Avenue runs for two blocks in Little Neck in Queens, from Little Neck Parkway east to Glenwood Street just south of Northern Boulevard, whereupon it plunges further east into University…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to parks that are less than an acre in size, such spaces are usually designated as squares, triangles, malls, gores, and…

For over three decades livery driver Matt Weber has been one of NYC’s best street photographers, capturing NYC’s essence from its people to its infrastructure. A biographical documentary, More Than The…

I had to make two trips to the Apple Store on 9th and West 14th to get an IPhone 6 unlocked, and then I had a new battery installed, since…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On a bend of the East River on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is a park named after this waterway and recently co-named after a…