“Cortlandt” is a common name in the various NYC street directories and gazetteers, either with a “Van” or without. The street is named for the family of Oloff Stevensen Van…
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Though the Long Island Rail Road “Montauk Branch” between Long Island City and Jamaica has not played host to regular passenger service for about a decade, and several stations along…
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Over the years, throughout the NYC subway system, there have been many instances of the perceived or actual need to close subway entrances/exits. In…
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In August 2017 I evaded the dead horse heat of the dog days for a half hour in Berg’n, a food mall converted from a manufacturing warehouse on Bergen Street…
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The late Yumi Heo’s stained glass artwork series, Q Is For Queens, found in the 33rd, 40th and 46th Street stations on the Flushing Line #7, has been endlessly fascinating…
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Although it might look like it, I’m not standing in a burial crypt visiting the dear departed who died in 2003. No, I am on 192nd Street between 39th Avenue…
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The Bay Ridge Branch of the Long Island Rail Road runs from the Fresh Pond RR yards in Glendale generally southwest and west, ending at the waterfront of the Narrows in…
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In Forgotten NY’s early days, in 1999 and 2000, I posted a number of pages about subway archaisms and leftover signage and structures (go to Explore FNY on the left,…
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I was fascinated with this view I got through a slight opening in a plywood fence on 32nd Street north of 38th Avenue in Astoria. I have no idea how…
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Like much of the subways the BMT Brighton Line, which runs generally between East 15th and 16th Streets from Prospect Park south to Coney Island, has a complicated history. It…
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The casual visitor to Sunnyside might assume that Lowery’s Wine Factory on Queens Boulevard between 40th and 41st Street was named for the original owner. Never assume anything in Queens;…
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Two enormous iron eagles can be found outside Grand Central Terminal, one on the Park Avenue Viaduct as it curves past Vanderbilt Avenue and East 42nd Street, and this one,…