You’d Never Believe You’re in NYC

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,…

In the fall of 2015 I realized that it had been a full decade since I had been to Travis, which is about as far west as you can get…

I’ll admit it. Broad Channel, other than damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, or a couple of businesses closing here and there, is the pretty much the same Broad…

CONTINUED FROM PART 1 GOOGLE MAP: PRINCE’S BAY One of the places I visited in 2005, and have only been in once or twice since, is Prince’s Bay, on the…

In February 2005 I was a Staten Islander for a week! I may have told this story before in one of my Staten Island pages, but I like telling it.…

Continued from Part 1 When I left off last week, I had just entered Midland Beach, which is only partially developed as the ground is quite marshy and punctuated by…

Arrochar, the first part of Staten Island that the S-53 bus visits when it comes off the Verrazano Bridge from Brooklyn, is often the starting point for my Staten Island…