I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favorite stations is…

I’ve said repeatedly to watch carefully when walking under elevated trains. Not for falling debris (not that that can’t happen) but for outmoded or unusual signage or lamp fixtures, because…

WHEN Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) constructed the original NYC subway from City Hall to 145th Street and Broadway in 1904, creating the Original 28 Stations, some of the stations have…

As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…

YOU cannot accuse the MTA of ignoring Canal Street. In previous eras, the IRT, BMT and IND have all constructed major stations at the east-west Manhattan route that traces the…

In 2019, FNY ran a piece about the Presidents of the United States whose names are represented in street names … whether the streets were named for former presidents or…

NYC’s King of Lampposts Bob Mulero found this 1970s MTA subway stanchion, complete with a silver metal post and old MTA “M” at West Brighton Avenue and West 1st Street…

GLAD to get out of the house for the first time in a couple of weeks (I’m “chained to the computer” at home during the week, and the weekends have…

THERE’S a lot going on in this photo I cribbed from Al Ponte’s Time Machine on Facebook of the west side of 4th Avenue between Pacific Street and Atlantic Avenue…

BEFORE anyone says anything —since Forgotten New York can be the headquarters of Nitpickers International at times — yes, I know there are five shots on this One Shots page.…

I have begun to pay more attention to platform lighting on elevated subway stations, which comes in a variety of posts from the earliest ornate ones, to the purely functional…

I am a fan of infrastructural elements in street layouts that aren’t shown on maps and consequently, I was unaware of until I bumped into them myself when out for…