By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE flaw of urban planning in Brooklyn is the beauty of Prospect Park as the borough’s signature greenspace, and seemingly endless blocks of housing…

In March 2022, when FNY presented the baseball streets of Commack in Suffolk County, several streets in NYC also named for baseball players were pointed out to me. Frankly I…

I hadn’t thought of mentioning them before, but New York City streets feature states’ names. Not in concentrated blocs, like signers of the Declaration of Independence (Brooklyn), vestrymen of Trinity…

BEFORE my purists say anything, there’s nothing “Forgotten” about Broadway; it’s the street most people think of when they think of New York City, which is sort of the premise…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent In heavily urbanized western Queens there is a superblock parcel measuring nearly 300 acres that is tightly protected from the public. It has been…

So a new era begins with Forgotten New York today: this is really the first piece consisting of more than one image I am composing on my new computer, a…

AFTER posting the item on #4 New York Plaza at Broad and Water Streets recently, I needed a quick Sunday feature because of time constraints. The day I shot that…

On two recent days, braving ungodly heat in the upper 80s with matching humidity, I marched around with the camera in Ozone Park, specifically up and down Liberty Avenue and…

One recent Saturday I decided to take several trains from Little Neck to Belleville, NJ, walk around for a bit, and come home. I’ll present the photos from that excursion…

Jeez, who knows if this thing is ever going to end? I’ve done Part 1 and Part 2, and now I’m ready for Part 3. I always think of more…

In what I first imagined would be my only post on the subject, I wrote about a few streets around town named for other streets, Broadway in most cases. Since…

Different cities have patterns of street naming. Boston is fairly haphazard — there are five Washington Streets, repeats of other names, and very few, if any, numbered streets. Philadelphia’s major…