By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Throughout the city there are hilltops sticking into the skyline and capes pointing into the war that were once fortified. Some still have their…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent While driving through Cypress Hills and East New York I passed by what looked like an abandoned castle. In this section of the city,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Black History Month in mind, there are plenty of monuments, streets, and parks around the city named after noteworthy African American individuals. Keeping…

I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

I haven’t been to the Hudson River waterfront in Washington Heights of late, and I had no idea that a new pedestrian bridge had opened in September 2017. I hustled over…

by SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When it comes to African American history on the city’s map, the 2013 designation of South Road in Jamaica as Tuskegee Airmen Way was…

Continued from Part 3 Time for another entry in Puzzlements, Forgotten New York’s examination of noncontextual street names, especially named streets smack in the middle of areas featuring numbered or lettered…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Befitting of its status as a world-class city, New York has received plenty of exotic street furniture over the decades: an ancient Egyptian obelisk, A Roman…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the city’s pursuit of a perfect rectilinear street grid, topography was not an obstacle. As the city expanded northward, roads in upper Manhattan…

I had always been intrigued by the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, which stands guard at the cusp of two worlds on 7th Avenue South and Clarkson Street. It is here…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With the memories of the Vietnam War reignited on its half-century mark , it is fitting on Veterans Day to remember one small park in Howard Beach…

Continued from Part 2 Time for another entry in Puzzlements, Forgotten New York’s examination of noncontextual street names, especially named streets smack in the middle of areas featuring numbered or lettered…