In this Forgotten NY tour we look at mosaics and identification artwork from the subways’ early days from 1908-1940. In many cases, early subway art depicts buildings and locations that…

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)…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…