A pattern has formed in the late winter and spring, as the Forgotten NY camera has been stalking around lower Manhattan, especially Soho, the Lower East Side, and Chinatown, as…
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On Facebook, William Padron supplies this map displayed map inside a vintage-1917 IRT Lo-V type trailer subway car #4902 at the New York Transit Museum. Lincoln (52nd), Fisk (69th), Junction Avenue…
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J.G. Melon, a tavern at 3rd Avenue and East 74th Street, is hardly Forgotten, as it is famed far and wide for its burger as so many taverns in the…
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WHEN traffic czar Robert Moses commissioned the Interborough Parkway in 1930, which connects Pennsylvania and Jamaica Avenues in Brooklyn with the Grand Central Parkway in Kew Gardens, it was along…
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As is well known to readers of Forgotten New York, the slotted Donald Deskey lamps, whose design was created by the famed interior designer of Radio City Music Hall, was…
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WITHOUT a doubt, one of the most obscure alleys in the Bronx, with the exception of Garden Place in Wakefield, can be found in Morris Park. Many passersby who live…
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FOR reasons that will become apparent, I always had something of an affinity for Market Street, which sidles up to the Manhattan Bridge’s south side and runs for a few…
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In no other Manhattan neighborhood has the street map changed more greatly over the decades than the Lower East Side, more specifically the easternmost section known as Corlears Hook, where…
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ATLANTIC AVENUE is one of the lengthiest streets in New York City, divided about equally between Brooklyn and Queens. It runs from the waterfront in Brooklyn Heights all the way…
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AVENUE of the Finest runs for one block between Madison and Pearl Streets along Murray Bergtraum High School and a huge Verizon tower that has been described as NYC’s ugliest…
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THE mission was simple. To walk the entire length of Chrystie Street from Canal to Houston, and then 2nd Avenue as far north as I pleased, the reason being that…
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PROFESSIONAL football had its AFL from 1961-1970, when the New York Jets won their only Super Bowl when they weren’t even part of the senior-circuit National Football League. But Brooklyn…