Continued from Part 1 I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However,…
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YOU never know what you’re going to find down by the water, which is why I am happy to have been born and raised in a city by the water.…
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SINCE the beginnings of Forgotten NY in 1999 I have periodically talked about “Octapoles,” NYC’s standard silver-colored lampposts whose shafts have eight sides, hence my name for them. They have…
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On this Ash Wednesday (and St. Valentine’s Day), let’s visit one of NYC’s oldest Catholic churches at Mulberry and Prince Streets in Little Italy. Old St. Patrick’s is called “old”…
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GRAND Central Madison, the new Long Island Rail Road terminal beneath the main terminal serving Metro-North rains, opened in early 2023 after about 20 years of construction. It’s truly vast,…
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LOOKING south on Cleveland Place from Kenmare Street. Cleveland Place was renamed from Marion Street to honor President Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), who had been Governor of NYS, toward the domed former NYPD…
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I still have grand dreams and ambitions. Publish a book and own my own place? Done years ago. Marriage? Make millions? Let’s not get crazy. However, it popped into my…
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No, the scene shown here is hardly Forgotten–it’s iconic and emblematic of the Village and has been seen by millions, New York natives and visitors alike. It does have its…
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In a borough quickly eradicating much of its historic legacy, no Staten Island neighborhood is preserving as much of its past as Port Richmond…if only from pure inertia, as it…
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TWO decades ago while meandering about in the rain down Maiden Lane in the eastern Financial District downtown in May 2003 I came across an unmarked street issuing north. I ascertained…
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I am going to make a confession. I have been listening to recorded music for a long time, from the time I was a toddler watching the wax spin on…
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CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HEY, I just had to get out of the house, and Saturday, January 27, 2024 was the only day to do it. I work from home…