DOES the Fulton Transit Center at Broadway and Fulton Street offer entrance to the greatest number of subway lines in the city? The BMT, IND and IRT are all represented,…
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THIS forlorn subway entrance, with its rolldown aluminum gate (that I have never seen open) is actually all that remains of the old Pennsylvania Hotel, built in 1919, closed in…
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THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…
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LONG before subway “countdown clocks” that foretold, with varying amounts of accuracy, when the next train would appear, these simply designed analog clocks, here seen at Fordham Road in 2016,…
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In the “stuff that I probably won’t see happen” file, today I decided to reprint one of two articles I wrote for Gothamist in 2019, this one co-bylined with Neil…
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In an earlier era of subway construction, the bulk of what is now called the L train was constructed between 1916 and 1924, an eight-year period, by an privately-owned entity…
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FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…
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In Forgotten NY’s piece about “monumental” subway stations clad in concrete on street level, I wrote about the Ocean Parkway station serving Q trains… Ocean Parkway is the only “monumental”…
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A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained…
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CAN it be over a decade since I have walked around in Grasmere, Staten Island, the next neighborhood west of Rosebank (where I have been multiple times, including a week…
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DURING the administration of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, state-operated bridges and tunnels received giant medallions with the state’s emblem in a display of civic pride for some travelers, or perhaps an…
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NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…