ENTRANCE and exit kiosks were constructed by the IRT, or Interborough Rapid Transit (today’s numbered subway lines) for its original 28 stations from City Hall north to 145th Street along…
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THE Brooklyn Veterans Administration Healthcare System hospital, 800 Poly Place near Fort Hamilton, has been a Bay Ridge staple for a long time, but I know little of its history,…
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It seems odd to everyone but me, but I have always been a subway and mass transit buff (and its deterioration the past few years is severely disappointing, still I…
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Continued from Part 1 WHEN I walked the full length of Brooklyn’s Kent Avenue from DeKalb Avenue north to Franklin Street and North 14th Street in 2008, I was documenting a road…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SECOND to Queens Boulevard, with its express and local lanes, the north-south version of this major artery is the combination of Woodhaven and Cross Bay…
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ONE of the more intriguing areas in Queens, at least from a street layout perspective, is the area known colloquially as “The Crescents” in Rego Park, in which the familiar…
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THE Ganesh Temple of the Hindu Temple Society of North America on Bowne Street just north of Holly was opened on July 4, 1977. As the first Hindu Temple in…
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At Astoria Square (Astoria Boulevard, 21st Street, 27th Avenue and Newtown Avenue) is one of Astoria’s more distinctive buildings, the former L. Gally Furniture store. In 1889 L. Gally established…
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NOT long ago, I spotted this billboard outside the School of Visual Arts on East 23rd Street and 2nd Avenue, honoring Milton Glaser, perhaps the best known graphic designer of…
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THE family-run Albanese Meats & Poultry, in business in Little Italy since 1923 and currently at #238 Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston, features what appears to be a…
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WHEN I walked the full length of Brooklyn’s Kent Avenue from DeKalb Avenue north to Franklin Street and North 14th Street in 2008, I was documenting a road that experienced…
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At the bend in the shoreline that is Corlears Hook, an amphitheater fits right in. This East River Park bandshell was funded in 2001 by consumer rights activist Erin Brockovich…