New York City contains several fine zoos (and we’ll use the un-PC term ‘zoos’ here)… the Bronx Zoo, the Central Park Zoo, the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn, even the…
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There’s a grand old apartment building over at 235 Second Avenue, on the northwest corner of East 14th Street catercorner from NYC Eye & Ear (where your webmaster has had his…
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I worked at Macy’s between 2000-2004. I was proud to work as a copywriter at The World’s Biggest Store for four years. One of the added benefits of working there…
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Forgotten Fan Jeff Saltzman (of the Streetlite Nuts website) accompanied me in the summer of 2000 on a tour of the tiny neighborhoods, barely in Queens, that cluster around Rockaway…
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Auto traffic rolling pedal-to-the-metal on busy Shore Road and Hutchinson River Parkway, up in Pelham Bay Park near the Westchester Line, pass a couple of stolid landmarks that represent the…
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On two separate trips, in the summers of 1999 and 2000, I walked the Grand Boulevard and Concourse, which marches north from the Major Deegan Expressway to Mosholu Parkway through…
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Since Alexander Hamilton founded the Bank of New York in the late 1700s, there have been hundreds of different banks flourishing in NYC. Some lasted for decades, only to ultimately…
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Manhattan has 11 statues of men on horses…and one woman. Forgotten NY tracked down all of them, and we thought we’d show them to you here in alphabetical order. There’s…
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While making your way through the southeastern part of Flushing as you get close to Cunningham Park, you may spot the occasional white-painted overpass crossing the street. They’re not old…
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In the early years of the 20th Century, dozens of theatres proliferated in the main streets and side streets alike in all five boroughs, featuring live entertainment in the vaudeville…
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On street corners throughout the city you’ll find these unpreposessing little structures built to release the miasmic vapors from underground wells, subway stations, and secret lairs of megalomaniacal madmen. This, Forgotten…
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Joe Friedman, who wrote the excellent Inside New York: Discovering the Classic Interiors of New York, describes Brooklyn’s Williamsburgh Savings Bank Building on Ashland and Hanson Place as ‘the tallest and…