WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…
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THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…
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To the east of Grand Concourse are three parallel avenues honoring Civil War generals Sheridan, Sherman, and Grant. The last one accepted the surrender of the largest Confederate army and…
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DOMINIE’S Hoek (Hook), originally the western end of the town of Newtown, was originally settled when a tract of land was awarded to Everard Bogardus, a Dutch Reformed minister (dominie),…
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THE old Germania Bank building, 190 Bowery at Spring Street, has become a mecca for graffiti birds; its exterior is faded, rusted, corroded glory, with Beaux-Arts hints of another age splattered…
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THE dead of winter is a natural time to commune with the dead and in late January I was stumbling around in St. Paul’s Churchyard, which I’ve neglected over the…
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VERY infrequently in New York City, you’ll find a Street With No Name. For many years, a roadway way down at the southwest end of Bay Ridge, along Dyker Beach…
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In early February 2025, a month that was generally cold with at least some snow, unlike recent winters, I took advantage of a relatively mild Saturday and walked Jamaica Avenue…
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UNTIL 1926 the northern end of Claremont Park in the Bronx was bordered by a single lane street first called Walnut, for numerous walnut trees in the area, and then…
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In 2007, on Forgotten New York’s first Douglaston-Little Neck tour, the late great Nigey Lennon, author-musician (The Sagebrush Bohemian: Mark Twain In California, Reinventing the Wheel) gives me a breather…
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A very short post today. It looks as if I am ready to embark on another Forgotten New York photo series, Long Island RR station interiors. Usually they are well-maintained…
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TURNOUT was a bit down, but nonetheless enthusiastic, for Forgotten NY’s Sunnyside tour on a drizzly day in October 2018. Here the group is photographed at the Sunnyside Doughboy in…