I remember it pretty clearly. It was in October, 1975 and it was the first time I had ever ridden my bicycle across Jamaica Bay on the Marine Parkway, since…

I don’t use the Brooklyn Broadway El or the Nassau Street line that much, but when I do, I stand the greatest chance to see a variety of MTA subway…

The 125th Street station on the #1 Line, the 7th Avenue IRT, sits above Broadway and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (West 125th Street) It is the sole remaining elevated…

I discovered this illuminated subway sign quite serendipitously when wandering around the Grand Central Terminal area prior to checking into a midnight temp job at a financial publisher. It’s just…

Leaving Citifield after a Mets game in April, I spotted something unusual in the Corona subway yards serving the IRT Flushing Line that runs between Hudson Yards and Flushing Main…

Virtually nothing today is as it was in 1957 in this photo taken from the 155th Street Viaduct looking north on 8th Avenue toward the Harlem River. In the foreground…

The old Penn Station is not completely gone. If you poke around long enough in the basement of Madison Square Garden, which is what the ‘new’ Penn Station became, you…

photo: Facebook group Electric Traction Enthusiasts There’a a lot going on in this photo of Myrtle and Gates Avenues in Bushwick in 1956. Parts of the road surface are still paved…

When I began riding the Long Island Rail Road on a daily basis in 1992 for a job in Port Washington, the M3 car you see here, first built in…

It might be time to begin saying goodbye to the R-46 subway car, which currently works the A, F and R subway lines; in fact the A fleet is still…

I was looking through some photos in my IPhoto collection (I rarely discard any photos from Forgotten NY missions) from the summer of 2011, one of the relatively few times…

Myrtle Avenue, which runs from MetroTech in downtown Brooklyn all the way out east to Jamaica Avenue at Lefferts Boulevard in Queens, represents a lost opportunity for me, a treasure…