I was always sure to photograph the interior or exterior of a M-1 or M-3 Long Island Rail Road car whenever one pulled into the station where I was waiting.…

WHERE can this tiled sign pointing the way to Pennsylvania Station, the 7th Avenue Subway and the “Statler Hilton” be found? It’s in an 800-foot long pedestrian corridor beneath West…

In September 2024 I walked Crescent Street in Long Island City almost its entire length and then headed east to 31st Street to get the N train at the end…

STREET patterns can tell you a great deal about the characteristics of a neighborhood. For one thing, they call out the spirits of railroads past. We have already seen the…

THE only elevated section of the Independent Subway, built by the City of New York in the 1930s to compete with the privately-run IRT and BMT systems, ascends on a…

JUST outside the turnstiles in the concourse of the 14th Street station on the IND 8th Avenue line (A, C, E trains) there’s a handsomely lettered sign in the black…

At 463 West Street you will find the old Bell Labs HQ whose various buildings take up an entire block, between Washington, West, Bank and Bethune Streets. This complex was…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On the A train heading south, the tracks split into two branches, east to Far Rockaway, and west to Rockaway Park. Connecting this split is…

HERE’S a relic you can find at the 71st Avenue express station serving E, F, R and M trains on the Queens Boulevard IND. On the center pillars, you can…

As I have said recently I have been fascinated with the smaller directional signage found in IND stations built mostly in the 1930s. At the Greenpoint Avenue stop in Brooklyn,…

HERE at the IND Fort Hamilton Parkway station on the IND serving the F and G lines, we have a case of unplanned redundancy in the fare control area. The…

In early April I began what I hoped would be a lengthy walk in Ozone Park and Howard Beach, an intriguing area with odd dead ends and even some hidden…