REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…

THERE are a number of iron poles that supported trolley wires scattered around NYC, especially in Brooklyn, where I can locate about a dozen or so. Here is one found…

At the triangle formed by East New York Avenue and Prospect Place where they meet Rockaway Avenue, you will find a tall building with a bricked-up picture window, as well…

JUNCTION Boulevard’s name is somewhat mysterious. Literally, from Latin, “junction” means “joining” or where things come together. But what originally came together here in western Queens? My guess is either…

As I have mentioned previously in Forgotten NY, when I lived in Brooklyn , I used to bicycle all over Brooklyn and several times extended into Queens and as far…

A long-abandoned trolley terminal has been hiding in plain sight at the eastbound platform of the Essex Street Station serving J and M trains on the Nassau Street BMT plying…

THE BMT Canarsie Line (popularly, the L train), like its cousin mostly completed the same year, the Flushing Line (#7 train) was built out mostly in 1928. However, some sections…

CLOSING out 2022 (how long can FNY go on?) In the late 19th and early 20th Century, a trolley line connected Flushing and Jamaica, running originally through the farms and…

WHILE riding on the B35 bus on Church Avenue in Kensington in the 1960s (my parents and I would take bus rides on all the local lines when I was…

Where can this Queens scene be, which looks to be way out in the countryside with a few scattered houses near the horizon and a single railroad track in the…

Here’s a remaining trolley pole at Atlantic Avenue and a Brooklyn-Queens Expressway exit, just west of Hicks Street. It once had a partner across the street and electric cable was…

This was one of what was originally five exquisite entrance and exit kiosks, rendered in beautiful Beaux Arts terra cotta, that used to stand at 2nd Avenue and East 60th…