As Queens residents know, the vast amount of its streets are numbered; in general, Avenues run west to east, while Streets run from north to south. When this system was…

THIS sliver of a park at Webster Avenue and East Fordham Road carries a historic name. This small park is a vestige of a far larger estate once called “Rose…

QUEENS’ Seneca Avenue is noteworthy as its name can be said to come from two different languages. The official version is that the street was named for one of the…

New York is filled with Dutch names resulting from its history. On the Rockaway peninsula, Amstel Boulevard takes its name from Amsterdam’s namesake river. Running for five blocks, it can…

WALTON High School, 2790 Reservoir Avenue, was founded as an all-girls high school in 1923, became “co-ed” in 1977 and closed in June 2008. Today the building that housed Walton is…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor CONTINUED FROM PART 1 My first visit to Hart Island occurred in February 2025 through a tour offered by the Parks Department Urban Park Rangers. In…

As many Forgotten NY readers know, I have an affinity for Port Washington, NY as I worked in town for 12 years, in two separate stints from 1992-1999 and again…

I was fooled along with everyone else when, meandering down Marcy Avenue at Madison Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in 2014, I saw this large painted ad for “McCann’s Hats” on the…

We need to talk about Dahill Road, if only because it’s been some time since I gave it much thought. But on the Brooklyn street map, it’s fairly important. When…

OVER the years, this site has documented many former firehouses repurposed as offices and residences. Usually the reason for their closing was in favor of a new firehouse nearby that…

In a situation that fairly ridicules work rules at the Metropolitan Transit Authority, you definitely know what platform to stand on to get to Manhattan at the Fort Hamilton Parkway…

ACCORDING to the undefeated AI robot on the Google, the Public National Bank and Trust Company of New York (Charter Number 11034) was a prominent commercial bank that grew significantly…