BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent At the end of 2023, the ribbon was cut on the East Midtown Greenway, an elevated walkway built above the water, connecting East 54th Street…

TODAY, Sunset Park, located fairly neatly between the Brooklyn waterfront, 10th Avenue/Fort Hamilton Parkway, 39th and 65th Streets, is divided fairly neatly between a Latino/Hispanic section nearer the water and…

Ed. note: I haven’t been to the Statue of Liberty since a Cub Scout trip in 1965, and I remember exactly nothing, but Sergey has been there a bit more…

NOW and then, I stroll around the neighborhood at lunch. I work at home, but everyone has to do lunch between 1:00 and 2:00, so there are limits on how…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent At the corner of Essex and Delancey Streets is a glass tower with signs for The Market Line, an underground food and retail complex…

EVERY so often I like to check in on my favorite buildings, one of which is the Renken Dairy offices at #584 Myrtle Avenue and Classon Avenue. The bottling plant…

A familiar saying holds that a “photo is worth a thousand words.” If that’s the case today’s post will feature a lot of words, as I’m short on text but…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In my childhood and into adulthood I’ve had a fascination with maps, to the extent that my mother wished that I’d been born 500 years…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THERE are few parks in the city that are older than Central Park and rise near its level of fame. Battery Park is certainly known…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent ONE of the greatest art museums in the world is hardly “forgotten” and nearly every inch inside and around this structure has been documented in…

BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SINCE the demolition of Shea Stadium in early 2009, Forgotten-NY has been documenting hidden train station signs that directed travelers to this former ballpark. With…

FORGOTTEN New York, believe it or not, does get some complaints. A recent one (maybe the Comments section, Twitter, or Facebook) is that the book did not discuss enough Bedford-Stuyvesant,…