Revere Sugar Refinery, a Red Hook landmark for decades, was demolished in 2007. “It’s hot in the poor places tonight.” SO SAYS Jeff Tweedy on Wilco’s 2002 LP Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. I thought…
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Picture yourself in a boat on a river…. Centuries before Robert Moses built his monuments to the automobile, New York’s first superhighways were its rivers, inlets, channels and creeks. It was…
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The Long Island Rail Road, celebrating its 170th anniversary in 2004, crosses Flushing Avenue in style at 56th Street in Maspeth The first thing to remember about Flushing Avenue is that it…
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Lost opportunities. Blown chances. Once again, I’ve been cheated out of a vintage dining experience. I’d always been curious about, and wanted to take in a meal at, Brooklyn’s famous Gage &…
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Lost opportunities. Blown chances. Once again, I’ve been cheated out of a vintage dining experience. I’d always been curious about, and wanted to take in a meal at, Brooklyn’s famous Gage &…
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City Reliquary, 307 Grand Street, Williamsburg Kindred spirits in Forgottenhood are always a blessing in NYC. We’re always truly humbled and gratified by the crowds we gather for ForgottenTours; this site itself has…
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Written in 2003, the last year tokens were used for revenue service…. Turnstiles, as well as tokens, have changed radically over the years. Turnstiles predated tokens; the first nickel-operated turnstiles appeared…
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[These paintings were on Williamsburg walls in the summer and fall of 2003. Given theever-changing nature of street art, not many are likely still there.] Those who know Your Webmaster…
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Part Three in a series exploring NYC’s boundaries with other municipalities. Third in the series: Queens’ Far Rockaway FAR ROCKAWAY is a Miss Havisham-esque doyenne whose beauty has long-since faded. No…
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Your webmaster knows full well he will be ridiculed, pilloried and threatened with everything from lawsuits to bodily harm for including Hoboken on a Forgotten NY site. New Jersey, the Sixth…
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Manhattan’s 843-acre oasis is vast enough so that quite a bit of it is rarely trodden by the public…which passes some highlights by without giving them a second glance. How’s that…
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When I was a kid, they built a bridge in my back yard. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge was built in five years between 1959 and 1964. Prior to that, there was no way…