AFTER Greenpoint’s grid street system was laid out by Neziah Bliss in the early 1800s, east-west cross streets were named simply, A through Q Streets from north to south. Greenpoint Avenue was…

ACCORDING to NYC subway and railroad historian Joe Brennan, the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad made its entry to New York via the Harlem Line in 1849, but the…

By DAVID MELTZERForgotten NY contributor SEPARATING the working class neighborhood of College Point, and the mansion studded neighborhood of Malba, there is Powell’s Cove. Before the earliest settlers came, this was…

CONTINUED FROM PART ONE HUNTERS POINT, at the extreme west end of Queens abutting the East River north of Newtown Creek, has been visited often by the Forgotten NY camera. In the…

OLD Staten Island place names are fascinating. By 2026, most of the old place names have been expunged or renamed, with a few exceptions like Fingerboard Road, named for a…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY correspondent On a recent Friday afternoon, I was driving to drop my daughter off at a friend’s house in Queens Village.  Google driving directions decided that…

DURING my days at 8302 6th Avenue in Bay Ridge from 1957-1982, I spent a lot of time in Tom McDonald Triangle, which looked nothing like this… it was a…

FORGOTTEN New York already has a category dedicated to streets that have vanished, Street Necrology, but I may need to institute a new category dedicated to the buildings we are…

CRABBS Lane is about as far out in New York City as you can get, as it sits on an orphaned portion of Victory Boulevard near the West Shore Expressway…

HEY, I get it. Verveelen Place is nothing special; issuing from Broadway south of West 231st Street, it hits a dead end at what was once an active branch of…

HUNTERS POINT, at the extreme west end of Queens abutting the East River north of Newtown Creek, has been visited often by the Forgotten NY camera. In the last 25…

ODDLY, I had known about this beautiful Italianate mansion at #182 South Oxford Street, north of Atlantic Avenue in Fort Greene, for some time. But whenever I had happened over,…