THE name “Isham ” is closely associated with Inwood, the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island (though not the most northerly; that prize goes to Marble Hill, which is actually on…

WHAT, you were expecting 42nd Street in Manhattan? That’s probably the least-Forgotten street in New York City, though it would be interesting to find “forgotten” aspects of it. I’d have…

THERE are no less than 20 place names in Brooklyn named “Paerdegat.” There’s Paerdegat Park, shown below; Paerdegat Basin, which separates the communities of Bergen Beach/Georgetown and Canarsie; Paerdegat Avenue…

THE lots of 2744 Kingsbridge Terrace and neighboring 2748 were owned in the early 20th Century by German immigrant, piano factory superintendent Frederick Schill. In 1911, Schill filed plans for…

THE modest townhouse at #86 Bedford was once one of NYC’s most popular hangouts for authors and other artistic types. Chumley’s is probably the only major bar or restaurant in New…

AMONG the many architectural marvels found along the only portion of Brooklyn’s Broadway uncovered by an elevated train in Williamsburg, Brooklyn is the magnificent cast iron Forman Building, facing Broadway…

MUCH of the spring and into the summer I wasn’t feeling particularly well with occasional gastro issues and a bad back, but I did get out now and then until…

MANY of the world’s great cities mark their borders with walls and gates, but New York knocked down Wall Street’s ramparts by 1699 and expanded its territory north until reaching…

YOU can learn a lot from coat hangers…wood ones, at least. Newtown Historical Society president, Queen of Queens, Forgotten NY contributor and editor of Juniper Park Civic Association’s Juniper Berry…

BEFORE setting off on a Ridgewood and Bushwick walkabout recently I was pacing on the Myrtle Avenue elevated M train station (I pace back and forth like a caged animal…

YOU don’t hear much about Founding Father Button Gwinnett (1737-1777), though his was the first signature under the Declaration of Independence, if you’re reading the signatures from the left. In…

I knew I had seen this sidewalk sign for Corner Deli before, as I was pacing around the Upper East Side at #1400 2nd Avenue at East 73rd Street. It…