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2019 was Forgotten New York’s biggest year in quite a few, as the website’s 20th anniversary was celebrated by two feature articles in the New York Post (by Hana Alberts)…
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For FNY’s 6th Green-Wood Cemetery tour on October 30, 2016, we stuck to the cemetery’s southwest quadrant and visited some sites I haven’t covered until now, as well as visited…
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FNY’s tour of Turtle Bay, October 16, 2016, was held back a week because of pouring rain a week earlier on October 9, and the crowd was a bit small,…
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FNY hadn’t toured Roosevelt Island since way back in November 2005. That was a 5 hour extravaganza covering the entire island, and since your webmaster was 11 years older, decided…
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City Island was the venue of another well-attended tour on September 10, 2016, repeating the venue of two earlier tours in 2002 and 2014. The air was thick as pea…
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ForgottenTour #109 on August 20, 2016 was the best-attended tour of the season, with nearly 30 people, in Steinway Village in North Astoria. Though the day began with sun it…
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After a 2016 slump regarding attendance, it was good to have a substantial crowd back for FNY Tour #108, a brand new one in Ravenswood, Queens, on Sunday, August 7th,…
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Forgotten NY’s 107th tour, Sunday, July 24, 2016, was the third in this general area, following a DUMBO your in 2002 and DUMBO and Vinegar Hill in 2012. Once again,…
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FNY had a brand new tour on July 10, 2016 concentrating on Northern Central Park, including Harlem Meer, seen above. It looks quite natural today but Harlem Meer, named for a Dutch…
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FNY’s Saturday, June 18th, 2016 tour was a repeat of the 2015 Woodhaven tour with a slightly shortened and revised tour route, beginning on Forest Parkway where we took in…
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ForgottenTour #103, Saturday, May 21, 2016, was a repeat of 2014’s Richmond Hill tour. We visited the now-repurposed sites of the Republican Club, RKO Keiths Theatre, Triangle Hotel, took in…
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On this tour held Saturday, April 23rd, 2016, we once again visited Prospect Cemetery, which opened in 1688 in the town of Jamaica, and nearby King Manor, the home of…