As little as a dozen years ago [as of 2007] you’d never have thought that Brooklyn would become a rock music mecca. In just the past few years though, Venues like…

Your webmaster has written and spoken often about the sad state of affairs that overdevelopment has left us in, especially in Flushing. Every historic property in the city not under…

Is there anyplace more inviting than a classic railroad-car diner? It’s a matter of taste of course, in more ways than one. I’d eat in one every day, but my…

Cord Meyer Jr. (1854-1910) was the original developer of Elmhurst and Forest Hills. In 1893 Meyer, a successful banker and lawyer, purchased acreage in what was then called Newtown from…

In a move that caught your webmaster as something of a surprise, the “new” PATH terminal that was constructed in 2003 at Church and Dey Streets at the edge of…

Hello and welcome to the first ForgottenSlice. It’s a new strategy on your webmaster’s part not only to post more often during the week, but perhaps to get more opinionated…

Woody Guthrie had it wrong. What’s that? Folk music devotees and labor union activists would say that Woody Guthrie hardly got anything wrong. But, in his most famous song, “This…