Charles Street runs from Greenwich Avenue to West Street just north of West 10th. The principal heir of Sir Peter Warren, who owned the land where Charles Street is found in the…

As you can see on this Dripps Atlas plate from 1867 (zoom in for a closer look) , in the ‘beginning’ there were nine streets that ran up the Lower…

It has been 10 years since I walked the epically bleak Flushing Avenue from Maspeth to downtown Brooklyn with the Queen of Queens (Christina Wilkinson of the Newtown Historical Society).…

I found myself in Bay Ridge a great deal in 2013, mainly because of extensive dental work, but the neighborhood, in which I lived from 1957-2003, is one I always…

I was still not working, and the dead dog heat of August baked with its usual intensity (and this year the dead dog heat would be extended into October, when…

I haven’t paid as much attention to Brooklyn Heights over the years as I have to its neighbors, DUMBO and Cobble Hill. I  hope to make up for it in…

The best Forgotten New York walks encompass worlds. A recent walk I did in a loop around northeast Staten Island brought me from the million-dollar mansions surrounding hidden lakes and…

Well, I see I’d better kick this series in the head, since my daily ratings are way down since I began it three weeks ago. ‘S’matter, you don’t like Staten…

Pictured in the title card is Grymes Hill, part of a string of hills that are New York City’s highest and, believe it or not, among the highest peaks along…

Taking advantage of a recent break from the draining and oppressive humidity of the New York summer, in late August I made a circuitous walk in Staten Island, taking the…

I have spent a lot of time in Hunter’s Point over the years — a ForgottenTour there in 2011 was a big success. Yet a big part of Forgotten NY…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 WAYFARING MAP: DOWNTOWN TO PROSPECT PARK I had arrived in Prospect Heights, one of Brooklyn’s bounceback neighborhoods which has gone from rags to riches, with most…