This subway entrance on Broadway caught my interest for two reasons: one, it’s for a long-closed subway entrance, and two, as the time “stamp” indicates, it was taken on my…
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From 1982 to 1988, the BMT 8th Avenue station serving the N train in Brooklyn was my daily means of getting to my night job at Photo-Lettering, the city’s biggest…
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Since the Grand Central IRT station serving today’s #4, 5 and 6 trains opened beneath the great train terminal in 1918 it has featured mosaics on its side walls depicting…
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The MTA’s last examples of the R-42 subway car, first manufactured and entering service in 1969, are finally being shuttled off to the MTA Retirement Village (making repair facilities and…
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The MTA is doing a $1 million study to possibly revive the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch for passenger service, which hasn’t been there since 1924. Currently, much…
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Here’s an interesting tableau from 1962 on the south side of Roosevelt Avenue just east of Main Street in Flushing. It was, then as now, the terminal of the IRT…
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As Forgotten NY fans know by now, I’m fascinated with New York City’s infrastructure and despite the subway’s overall failings, I’ve always had a soft spot for subway infrastructure; I…
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Jackson Avenue begins an almost 100-mile run at Vernon Boulevard just north of Borden Avenue and the west end of the LIRR Queens yards. It was built as a toll…
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by SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent Kevin Walsh has been to the Bronx neighborhood of Bedford Park in 2008, but his observations were limited to the sidewalk. With historical maps and…
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Some of the original Penn Station has been in view from the south end of the southbound local IRT station serving the #1 train, as a passageway constructed (likely by…
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From Ossie McGennie in the Facebook New York’s Railroads, Subways & Trolleys Past & Present group (hence the watermark) comes this extraordinary glimpse into the past at the 138th Street/Grand…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent When two railroad lines nearly touch each other, it made sense at the turn of the 20th century to build a connecting spur between Sunnyside…