I was feeling pretty good in November 2011. After an arduous process, Forgotten NY had been moved over to a WordPress platform, though the initial phase was botched by the…

The late great Tommy Keene had a great song called “Places that Are Gone,” about what you’d expect. Periodically I go over my stash of Forgotten New York images between…

In the spring of 2018, I was working in a building from 12 midnight to 8 am I last worked in 30 years ago. The company I worked for then, Photo-Lettering,went…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Whenever a boulevard or highway slashes through the street grid, triangular parcels that are too small to develop are assigned to the Parks Department,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Having documented the abandoned Dr. Simon Baruch Public Bath as part of the page on East River Park, I went a mile to the…

Just a quick one this Christmas week. On December 10, 2017, ForgottenFan Mary Beth and I went on the Flushing Holiday House tour, which had been going on for thirty…

I was on the far West End of Manhattan recently on the border of the Meatpacking District and Chelsea, at 9th and West 14th, asking about my IPhone battery at…

5 has always been my favorite digit. I don’t know how many people have favorite digits but I have always had an affinity for it despite the fact that it’s…

I feel like doing another quick Sunday page this week instead of beginning a multi-parter, so I’ll draw on some images I got while visiting friends on Stockholm Street in…

I am posting about a pair of my favorite Midtown buildings today, one immediately endangered, the other not. I’ve known about each of them for quite awhile. Both are from…

While standing on the Brighton Beach elevated station above Brighton Beach Avenue recently I spotted this trio of shoe ads on the building as seen from the platform. While all…

I had fun doing FNY’s second Mixed Bag page from two weeks ago, which featured photos taken in January 2017 on my IPhone, so I decided to do another one…