I was skulking around the Financial District/lower Tribeca on Greenwich Street when I found this closed CEMUSA newsstand. On the side window was something unusual, which set off some reminiscences:…

As known in the catalog I use to research these things, the posts shown here are Type 41S and Type 41T, S for Single and T for Twin. They first…

Gary Fonville, FNY’s man in the MTA and former city bus driver, has been working overtime of late uncovering Forgotten oddities all over the city. Here are yet more…  …

Last week, I was fresh from stopping in the Apple store at Greene and Prince Streets in SoHo, banging around the MacBooks, IPads and IPhones. (The learning curve is going…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten New York correspondent Signs featuring “Rex Cole” have appeared previously in FNY. They were installed around the time that a newfangled technology for the home kitchen appeared…

The only community college in Brooklyn, Kingsborough, occupies the east end of the short peninsula south of Sheepshead Bay, at the east end of the Manhattan Beach community. The College…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Because NYC was a great manufacturing center, many factory chimneys can be found within our city limits. They belonged to businesses who generally produced a lot of exhaust.…

For those of you that are unaware, your webmaster’s (my) name is Kevin J. Walsh, J for Jude. ForgottenFan Ed Dineen sent me a photo of a regulation Department of…

If you’ve been around long enough (like you know who) you’ve occasionally seen these metal and glass illuminated boxes mounted on utility poles, like the one in the title card,…

Way back in 2008 I was meandering west on 35th Street between 7th and 9th, the south end of the Garment District, when I spotted a building entrance that must…

Though it has been over century since it was known as Shell Road, an ancient east-west Queens thoroughfare connecting the banks of Newtown Creek with downtown Elmhurst remains largely intact.…

This past Sunday I was heading towards Union Square, taking 12th Street. The east-west numbered streets of Greenwich Village are old enough to have preserved some architectural archaisms, attached townhouses…