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…

Sergey’s recent piece on the Brooklyn Navy Yard reminded me of the street that I think has changed more than any other in New York City since the mid-20th Century.…

Time for another Longform Sunday, as I’ve been doing since Forgotten NY got started back in March 1999. This week, though, Sergey has supplied me with some more material, so…

Last week I recounted meandering on Meserole Avenue, one of Greenpoint’s east-west routes, where there were several interesting things to see. The same day, I meandered north up Franklin as…

I write this the day I turn 63. I feel terrific! Except some mornings, when my back is sore and only walking around will ease it. An affliction tailor-made for…

I have to explain just a little how I sort out photos for Forgotten New York. I use two cameras, one being a Panasonic Lumix. I bought a used one…

Continued from Part 1 I was puttering around up in Melrose, Bronx a week or two ago and I spotted a true roundabout, in the British sense. NYC has a number…

I was puttering around up in Melrose, Bronx a week or two ago and I spotted a true roundabout, in the British sense. I’ll tell you where it was a…

In May 2019 I traveled down to JFK Airport with my friend Joanna to take a look at the new TWA Hotel, which opened this year in the same futuristic…

Prospect Park South was developed at the turn of the 19th-20th Century by upstate New Yorker Dean Alvord, who purchased a parcel of land in Flatbush from the estate of…