Between Waverly and Christopher just west of 6th Avenue is a short dogleg called Gay Street, which contains a number of handsome Federal-style buildings and has a varied lore. The name…
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Construction began for the Long Island Rail Road between Brooklyn and Jamaica, and points beyond, in 1836. The railroad ran down the center of Atlantic Avenue, a major route running…
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Claver Place runs for two blocks from Fulton Street north to Putnam Avenue just east of Classon Avenue. Nothing really unusual about it… until you spot the small sign on…
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Years ago, when FNY was just getting started back in 1999, I got word that there was a hidden street in the Bronx, unmarked on maps and by the Department…
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Benson Street, which runs between Leonard and Franklin Streets between Broadway and Lafayette Street, used to be one of Manhattan’s true rarities: a named dead end. While other cities in…
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Furman Street runs north from Atlantic Avenue to Fulton Street along the East River waterfront in Brooklyn Heights. It has undergone two separate areas of feverish activity, separated by an…
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New Yorkers of a Certain Age will remember the elevated West Side Highway — constructed on pillars over West Street and 12th Avenue in the 1930s, it connected downtown Manhattan…
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Students, teachers and administrators on PS 36, on Castle Hill Avenue south of the Cross Bronx Expressway, if they even notice them, may be mystified about the carven street names…
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So I was hanging around on the west end of the Queensboro Plaza station in the brain-melting heat of the NYC summer, trying to get to Astoria, when I saw…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent The Bronx is an urban explorer’s dream. Its mix of colliding street grids results in oddly-angled buildings and alleys. Its challenging topography means that…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent In 1963 or so, Studebaker joined a long list of automotive names that no longer exist. Names such as Edsel, Pinto, Corvair, LaSalle, Desoto…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In the center of Manhattan Island, Central Park takes up 843 glorious acres of naturalistic landscape. As summer humidity sets in, the park’s…