You’d Never Believe You’re in NYC

On the east end of 35th Avenue in Bayside, which oddly becomes a languidly curving route east of Corbett Road, is one of Bayside’s secrets, Golden Pond. An aged Henry Fonda…

I’m not sure I have ever photographed the New Dorp Lighthouse in Staten Island; things get fuzzy after 23 years and counting of doing Forgotten New York. The lighthouse is…

MENTION “Willowbrook” to anyone over 50, and the groundbreaking reports aired by reporter Geraldo Rivera in 1972 during his stint at WABC-TV, uncovering the brutal conditions inflicted on patients at…

As I have mentioned on a (much) earlier Forgotten New York page back in 2001, Staten Island is rife with natural areas and ponds that never made the traditional maps,…

Continued from Part 1 Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at…

Historic Richmondtown, or Richmond Town (both ways seem correct) sits near the geographic center of Staten Island, far from any major parkways or expressways, but at the confluence of three…

I mentioned at the outset of my January 2020 walk from Little Neck to Forest Hills that there is something of a barrier between Little Neck, Douglaston and the rest…

Now and then, a bit of original New York topography peeks through the concrete, bricks and glass. Oakland Lane, at 46th Avenue and Cloverdale Boulevard in Bayside, is a piece…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Look at a map of Staten Island and you would see a point of land on the Great Kills waterfront stretching on its southern…

In January 2018 I had the opportunity to tour the grounds of the former St. Charles Seminary in Todt Hill, Staten Island, which incorporates the Ernest Flagg Estate and its…

I have lived in Little Neck, Queens since July 1st, 2007, following 14 years in Flushing. I spent 35 years in Brooklyn to begin with, so in 2029 I’ll have…

Here’s some solid gold from December 2004, in the era before Governors Island had become the mostly public park it is today (at least during the warm months). In 2004,…