Walks

In March 2019 I was given the opportunity to appear in the New York Post for Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary, with an interview by the Post‘s Hana Alberts and…

Baxter Street begins at NYC’s more infamous precincts (for two separate reasons over the years) and runs generally north and northwest to Grand, where it ends at the old but…

It had been a good 6 years or so since I took a walk around Spuyten Duyvil, the hilly, almost mountainous, Bronx enclave tucked in its southwest enclave just above…

Continued from Part 1 Back in March 2000 I set out with a band of urban explorers that walked the old LIRR Rockaway Branch from Rego Park to Woodhaven. The…

I’ve always thought that New York City should maximize its transit options. There are still miles upon miles of (mostly) intact railroad right-of-way that could be restored to revenue-based transit…

Some time ago I received a gift card for Greenlight Bookstore, an indie bookstore on Fulton Street in Fort Greene. I had forgotten about it for awhile even though it…

It had been a good 6 years or so since I took a walk around Spuyten Duyvil, the hilly, almost mountainous, Bronx enclave tucked in its southwest enclave just above…

Continued from Part 1 I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway,…

If you recall from last week, I started off at the Avenue U station in Gravesend and made my way northwest, up through Bath Beach, and left off at the…

It was a pretty dull day, lead-pipe overcast, but it was a weekend, and I prefer not to travel much for Forgotten New York outings during the week because of…

There’s been a lot of news about the subways and transportation in New York City lately, most of it about the deteriorating infrastructure in the more-than-century-old system. Extensive re-routings, rush-hour…

The Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Gowanus neighborhoods, arrayed south of Atlantic Avenue from 3rd Avenue west to the East River and north of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Gowanus…