In September 2024 I walked Crescent Street in Long Island City almost its entire length and then headed east to 31st Street to get the N train at the end…
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SINCE I have never been to Dublin, Ireland, and have only seen it by surfing on Google Street View, I thought I would head over to Madison Square in June…
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In a 1940s Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny cartoon, a mad scientist infuses carrots with super juice, turning Bugs into “Super Rabbit.” In one of the gags, Bugs is in flight…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In the fall of 2024, a new road and waterfront park opened in Long Island City, taking its name from the neighborhood’s industrial past. With…
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HERE’S 101-103 Union Street between Columbia and Van Brunt, at the west end of a very long street that goes all the way to Brownsville. The building currently serves as…
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WHEN in Bay Ridge in spring 2024 I was inching my way down 3rd Avenue when I spotted this venerable sign for the Metropolitan Society of Kardamylians at #7919. According…
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ROCKEFELLER University’s pedestrian cable-stayed bridge, designed by Weidlinger Associates, connects the university’s south campus and residence halls, spanning busy East 63rd Street, which here is an on and off ramp…
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WORD comes that Smith’s Bar, the longtime dive with the fantastical neon signs on 8th Avenue and West 44th has gone the way of the dodo and will soon be…
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I have shown the exterior of the Van Der Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues on the undefended Brooklyn and Queens boundary a number of times on FNY, so…
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EVEN after Greater New York was founded in 1905, southern Brooklyn and much of Queens, Bronx and Staten Island was farmland if not open country, dotted here and there with…
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In October I took advantage of the preternaturally balmy and clear weather (Central Park recorded .01″ of rain the entire month) and walked through Chelsea and The West Village, catching…
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I took a stroll in Flushing Meadows in September 2024 and noted the absolutely decrepit conditions of the sidewalk mosaic medallions located surrounding Dinkins Plaza at the park’s entrance at…