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In October I took advantage of the preternaturally balmy and clear weather (Central Park recorded .01″ of rain the entire month) and walked through Chelsea and The West Village, catching…
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Continued from Part One WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One…
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WITH this page, I am proposing/inaugurating a new Forgotten NY series, Greatest Hits, that will be appearing periodically, much like the series began earlier in 2024, One and Done, concerning…
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WELL, you don’t see too many of these any more. I’d estimate there are approximately 25 or 30 at the most of these curved-mast octagonal shaft lampposts around town, with…
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Continued from Part 1 PLENTY of people say never look back, only look forward. I have never heeded that advice. I’m always replaying events, both good and bad; I remember…
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PLENTY of people say never look back, only look forward. I have never heeded that advice. I’m always replaying events, both good and bad; I remember slights from decades ago.…
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FORGOTTEN New York hasn’t featured a great deal of interior spaces. I would like to do more, but whenever I’m indoors and start pointing a camera, someone wearing a badge,…
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Here is a second entry in The Forgotten NY Overlooked Series, in which I revive old pages that somehow were not converted when FNY changed layouts and hosting services in…
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WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…
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On a sunny late July 2022 Sunday, I decided to check out Trinity Churchyard and Broadway. I really had not spent any length of time there in a decade and…
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BESET by nagging maladies and injuries…some of which are still ongoing (the lower back is a frequent target for the pain gods) …I was in the mood for a somewhat…
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I haven’t been out to East New York for awhile, but fortunately I have a number of photos on file, and I remembered the East New York Long Island Rail…