IT’S been awhile since I’ve mentioned the Seaman Estate Arch in Inwood, or even been in Inwood, so I’ll just feature it today for those who are some what new…

I have always been a fan of the original formula pedestrian lampposts on expressways built in NYC during the 1950s. To me they are simplified versions of Bishop Crooks that…

I found this confusing pairing of signage on the northbound leg of Hamilton Avenue at Henry Street a few years ago. Apparently the Department of Transportation must have heard from…

JUST as the First Reformed Dutch Church at Flatbush and Church Avenues contains some of the best-preserved tombstones from the colonial era pre-Revolution, so does the Dutch Reformed Church in…

THE original South Ferry station at the tip of Manhattan is a very complex operation that comprises no less than four separate platforms that serve, or served, the IRT 7th…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THERE are few parks in the city that are older than Central Park and rise near its level of fame. Battery Park is certainly known…

I resided in eastern Flushing, or western Auburndale, depending where you draw the border, between 1993 and 2007 at 43rd Avenue and 159th Street. It was a 4th floor apartment…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In July 2023, Kevin rediscovered a lost street in downtown Manhattan named Cheseborough Court, which ran for a block between Bridge and Pearl Streets, near…

PARKED outside #167 Concord Street in Brooklyn is owner Frank Didik’s car,  a hybrid gasoline/electric powered vehicle called the Didik Long Ranger designed in the mid-1980s. It’s 96 inches long, 65 inches…

FRONT Street in Clifton, Staten Island runs along Upper New York Bay and past the now nearly abandoned Bayley-Seton Hospital. Here we see it with the Staten Island Railway in…

FORGOTTEN New York hasn’t featured a great deal of interior spaces. I would like to do more, but whenever I’m indoors and start pointing a camera, someone wearing a badge,…

In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…