BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE single-block Diamond District of 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues seems to change slowly, in comparison to neighboring blocks. Many of its buildings…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE largest historic mansion in the Bronx is the Van Cortlandt House in Riverdale, namesake of the 1146-acre park in which it stands. Every time…

THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent WITH more than two decades of travels around the city, what hasn’t Kevin Walsh already seen? In the Staten Island neighborhood of Eltingville, Kevin documented…

THE shortest north-south “Avenue” in Manhattan runs for one short block between West 186th and 187th Streets one block west of Cabrini Boulevard. It could better be classified as a…

GLENMORE Avenue is a narrow, one-way route (running east to west) a block south of Liberty Avenue; it formerly was continuous to auto traffic, but in 1955 the Howard Houses,…

To begin, I’ll quote myself from the ForgottenBook… Stapleton and Clifton are two adjacent neighborhoods on Staten Island’s northeast coast along Upper New York Bay. The Vanderbilt family held much…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the map, the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn appears nearly unchanged since the mid-19th century, with few superblocks, and not one grid-defiant street. But on…

THE Van Siclens, who spelt their name in two ways as was common in the colonial era before spellings were codified, settled in western Long Island in the mid-17th Century…

THE southeastern tip of Staten Island, its closest approach to Long Island, has been protected by fortifications since 1663, when a Dutch blockhouse was established. The area was known as…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On my previous visit to Coney Island, I documented a former bathhouse that became a Parks Department garage. I was informed that it will soon…

THERE’S a genuine log cabin in Canarsie at Flatlands Avenue and East 93rd Street. It was built by the Lloyd Doubleday family from 1936-1939 and was originally an ice cream parlor. Today…