I consider myself fortunate to come from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn and though I have been in Queens since 1993, a good 30 years now, I keep threatening to return. I…

RECENTLY home to Newel Props, which rents furniture for movie and stage productions, and the City View Racquet Club, this building which fills an entire block at Skillman Avenue and Van…

WORD comes that the two distinctive Belt Parkway pedestrian bridges that go over the parkway to the bike/pedestrian path along the Narrows are under demolition and will be replaced. I…

THIS is one of the many Irish-themed pubs on Katonah Avenue in Woodlawn Heights, though every persuasion is welcome. In fact the Irish inscription on the sign means “1,000 100,000…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE northwestern tip of New York City offers majestic views of the Hudson River and the Palisades. The Sisters of Charity have their convent here,…

STEINWAY Village in northwest Queens was a small company town that was instituted by William Steinway, son of German immigrant Henry, who had moved his operations to Astoria on the…

THERE aren’t that many “original” Type F lampposts remaining in New York City. In fact, off the top of my head, I can rattle off the locations where you can…

HUNT’S Point in the Bronx, an enclave relatively cut off from Longwood by the Amtrak railroad cut and Bruckner Expressway, is where auto glass, auto parts, light industry and manufacturing are…

I have a keen eye for spotting ancient alleys and driveways that were once roads. When I lived in Brooklyn between 1957 and 1993 I spent springs and summers in…

BOSTON may be known as the “Hub of the Universe” but the south Bronx has its very own Hub where four roads converge: East 149th Street and Willis, Melrose and Third Avenues, while…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent FROM the Verrazano Bridge area heading south, Father Capodanno Boulevard is a pedal-to-the-metal shorefront road that was intended to serve as a highway. Among…

NEW R-211 subway cars have arrived on the 8th Avenue line, currently serving the A express line. Since I moved to Queens and take the Long Island Rail Road to…