BY SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY contributor               The origin of the Flushing River predates the Pleistocene Ice Age, when the Hudson River flowed into…

I recently got an angry note from a ForgottenFan that, as far as I understood it, excoriated me for not yet making it down to Gerritsen Beach for a FNY…

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Being There Over the years I would have to say I attended between 150 and 200 games at Shea Stadium. I never got a season ticket,…

Everyone at Shea Stadium on September 28, 2008, except members of the Florida Marlins — over 55,000 people — were hoping that the date would not mark the final game…

Heaven, as XTC has told us, is paved with broken glass. That means that as a resident of New York City, I’ll feel right at home if I ever get…

BY JEREMIAH MOSS Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York In the fall of 2007, the old, ramshackle, idiosyncratic newsstands that long graced our city’s streets began to vanish, replaced by “ticky tacky…

Continued from Page 2 Home stretch Green-Wood Cemetery zigs another zag at the “trintersection” of McDonald Avenue, 10th Avenue and 20th Street (above left). The architecture here begins to be…

Continued from Part 1 A Lost Railroad Between 1954 and 1975 the right-of-way between 37th and 38th Streets was partially occupied by an elevated railroad that served as a shuttle…

Despite the fact that ForgottenTours 24 (in April 2006) and 29 (in April 2007) have taken place in Green-Wood Cemetery (and there are likely more tours upcoming) I have yet…

In January 2008 I was perusing an old Hagstrom map (yes, I do that for fun). The old Hagstrom, before the company digitized the entire NYC map, preserved some archaisms…

Brooklyn’s Furman Street runs along the East River waterfront for about 3/4 mile between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street, but in that long stretch intersects with only a couple of…

It’s fairly easy to walk Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn and Queens from one end to the other, and it can be done in about two hours, if, like your webmaster,…