March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…

I got this image on an absolute gem of a day in 2000, on the SW corner of 5th Avenue and 23rd Street, opposite Madison Square. It shows a classic…

The Department of Transportation recently removed a vintage Type 24 hybrid Twin at the corner of 6th Avenue and Walker Street in Tribeca to effect street repairs. While I had…

Back in 2011, I got a photo of this temporary lamppost on 2nd Avenue, placed by the Department of Transportation while 2nd Avenue was being ripped up to build the…

“In 1905, T. B. Ackerson Company purchased a densely wooded tract of land and immediately cleared it, laid out streets and installed underground water, sewer, gas and electric lines. Eighteen…

I arrived in Little Neck on July 1, 2007, although, living in Flushing since 1993, I was quite aware of the Queens neighborhood tucked into its northeast quadrant just west…

Fire alarms have been a feature on NYC streets since the late 1800s, and methods of marking them, first to passing horse-drawn coaches and pedestrians up to moving vehicles has…

150 Charles Street, finished in 2016, contains some of the most expensive apartments in the city, where penthouses can sell for nearly $35 million. It’s also a celebrity magnet, with…

Here’s a 1940 photograph of Grand Street looking east from West Broadway in SoHo. Naturally the first thing I noticed was the unusually curved lamppost on the corner. Why would…

Many Chinatowns around the USA make full use of local decor, even down to the directional signs and lampposts, and beginning in 1964 or so, NYC began to add its…

Word comes that a pair of classic NYC lampposts from an earlier era have been torn down, at least temporarily. This Corvington at Morris Street and a stub of Washington…

I recently walked/bicycled the length of the Rockaway Peninsula boardwalk. It cones in two separate sections: the boardwalk at Riis Park and beach, and the eastern section, formally called Ocean…