Today’s topic in Forgotten New York may be a bit confusing at first, but bear with me. Have you ever been walking through a neighborhood in which all or the…

While most subway buffs consult David Pirmann’s NYC Subway for looks at subway maps and active and retired subway cars, I occasionally look through it for subway platform lamp stylings…

Mitchel Square, a triangle formed by Broadway, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 167th Street, honors NYC mayor John Purroy Mitchel, known as the Boy Mayor because he was, and remains, the…

Issuing north from West 251st Street west of Broadway is a dirt trace that can be mistaken for a driveway, which is its modern-day chief function. It is actually a…

I haven’t had a cassette player for a number of years now but in my time I had hundreds of cassette tapes that I would either make myself from my…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent When the Bronx was annexed by New York City, the street grid of Manhattan was extended north and found itself facing topographical obstacles. In…

Part of the appeal of the MTA’s Transit Museum Parade of Trains, in which rolling stock dating from 1907-1937 was exhibited at the Brighton Beach station were the plethora of…

At one point in the 1970s it seemed that every corner in NYC controlled by traffic signals also had these devices (Mosholu Avenue and Fieldston Road), which were mounted on…

I was fresh from the “Parade of Trains,” an MTA event in which BRT Brooklyn Union Elevated cars from 1900-1910, BRT/BMT Standards and BMT Triplex Cars from the 1920s, and R1/R9…

Here’s a photo from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated 9/6/1913 of “the New Blythebourne Post Office.” But where is Blythebourne? A hint is given in the caption — 13th Avenue…

I was a bit early for the film I was going to see at The Loews 34th (Alien: Covenant, which checks most of the boxes of menacing alien tropes in…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent With Memorial Day in mind, it is easy to think of it as the unofficial start of summer rather of its origins as a…