CONTINUING my review of ads found aboard a crowded Nostalgia Train featuring near-century-old cars the MTA rolls out periodically, most often in June, September and December.  If you know where…

FORGIVE the off-center photo. Apparently this was the best position I could get aboard a crowded Nostalgia Train featuring near-century-old cars the MTA rolls out periodically, most often in June,…

HERE’S a classic subway placard ad found on one of the vintage trainsets the Transit Museum rolls out every so often, mostly in June, September and December, an ad for…

A remaining vestige of the South Brooklyn Railway, a freight line owned by the MTA, trackage is shown here at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 37th Street, in a right of…

Of the station renovations along the IRT Broadway Line done in the late 1990s and early 2000s my favorite just may be the 66th Street-Lincoln Center station, one of the…

HUNT’S Point in the Bronx, an enclave relatively cut off from Longwood by the Amtrak railroad cut and Bruckner Expressway, is where auto glass, auto parts, light industry and manufacturing are…

NEW R-211 subway cars have arrived on the 8th Avenue line, currently serving the A express line. Since I moved to Queens and take the Long Island Rail Road to…

An aspect of subways and railroads in New York City that has never gotten deserved scrutiny is the wide variety of platform lighting found around town both in the subways…

I like to say that Forgotten New York is not only a website that tries to shine a light on parts of New York City that don’t make the guidebooks,…

AMELIA Opdyke “Oppy” Jones was a cartoonist who drew a slew of subway posters that gently and humorously called attention to the shortcomings of subway riders in the manners department.…

PICTURED here is the annual Transit Museum subway trivia quiz held in downtown Brooklyn each January, which attracted hundreds of participants every year for several years, with the last one…

As readers of Forgotten New York may know after over 23 years, I have a fascination for NYC’s elevated trains…not only the trains, routes, and stations, but also the streets…