By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York City has more colleges than any other city in the country, ranging from leafy academic villages such as Brooklyn College and…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent This piece originally appeared in FNY in April 2010, but was never transcribed when I switched to the WordPress platform the following year. Sergey…
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No, it’s not what you think, this isn’t really “nude” Utrecht, and I didn’t stumble on a Spencer Tunick (link NSFW) tableau when out adventuring. I was actually on my way…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent This city has more college campuses than any other in the nation. On our previous campus sojourns, we visited CCNY, the Hall of Fame…
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A few weeks ago I walked Meserole Street west, then Montrose Avenue (which is a block south of Meserole) east, then Bushwick Avenue as far south as the Aberdeen Street…
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In mid-July 2015 I had just attended a show at Poe Park in Fordham, at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road, featuring photographs taken on and around the recently…
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I was staggering around in the 96-degree blast furnace heat in the sunshine of Park Slope, scouting the route for an upcoming Forgotten NY tour, when after about three hours…
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The Childs restaurant chain was the creation of Samuel and William Childs. They revolutionized the American restaurant chain by creating a uniform look to each of their branches in order…
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For over ten years, my MTA bus dispatcher compadre Gary Fonville has been providing photos and stories behind buildings and signs he has seen along his former routes. He has…
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I have a history with model trains. In my youth our family set up at least two toy train layouts, on a foldout card table in my bedroom. A small…
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Continued from Part 1 The forecast was frightful one day in late January 2015, when forecasters were mentioning as many as 30 inches, or two and a half feet, of…
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The forecast was frightful one day in late January 2015, when forecasters were mentioning as many as 30 inches, or two and a half feet, of snow. I was skeptical…