By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York City has more colleges than any other city in the county. The campuses vary from the open campuses of New York University…
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No street, inch for inch and brick by brick, represents what has happened to many NYC communities more than what has happened to Summit Court, a dead end on Sanford…
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In my career in graphic arts as a proofreader, typesetter, copywriter, and mechanical artist (which are all, I realize, becoming jobs of the past) there was a time when I…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent So longtime Forgotten-NY fans may have noticed, there are two things that attract e in particular when it comes to the city’s geography, waterway…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In recent years, the coastlines of Manhattan and Brooklyn have been reclaimed by the public as ribbons of waterfront parkland take up shores that…
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So, it was October 1975 and I’m age 18 and furiously pedaling down Rockaway Boulevard all the way out in Brookville in southeast Queens, quite a ways from home when…
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An L-shaped alley appears on maps of Lower Manhattan going back as far as 1776. At that early date we can already see streets with the same names as now,…
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There are some parts of town that your ancient Webmaster doesn’t get around to all that much. Cypress Hills is one of those; I do visit National Cemetery from time…
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photo: Matthew X. Kiernan At 22nd and 6th in Chelsea is the former Ehrich Brothers Emporium, constructed in 1889, and currently home to a Burlington Coat Factory on the ground…
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The Firemen’s Memorial at West 100th Street, designed by H. Van Buren Magonigle and sculpted in 1912 by Attilio Piccirilli, is a large marble slab surrounded by an approach of…
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I had just lurched across the Manhattan Bridge after a shift in DUMBO, and was slowly making my way west toward the subway on Varick Street. After a winter of…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Central Park is the least forgotten park in the city, but within it are numerous items that are off the public radar. One…