CAN it really be almost nine years since I last explored the underground passageway beneath Rockefeller Center that rins beneath 6th Avenue from west 47th to 53rd Streets and then…
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RECENTLY, Forgotten New York took a look at three separate street in downtown Brooklyn and DUMBO named Fleet, for an early landowner, Samuel Fleet. I’m not done with lost streets…
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AROUND the corner from the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue at 6 East 87th Street in a private alley is a detailed statue more worthy of a public space, known…
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As Forgotten New York readers know I have an enthusiasm for short streets and alleys, of which New York simply does not have enough, compared to cities such as Philly…
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FORGOTTEN FAN Vicki M. passes along this photo of a present-day model drum mailbox and a pebbled concrete post that formerly held a smaller one at Ascan Avenue and Kessel…
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THE city’s Hall of Records at 31 Chambers Street is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten-NY essay as its exterior and interior are landmarked, it appeared in numerous movies, and…
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THERE are some parts of town I’m in but rarely, and Port Morris in the Bronx, located east of the Triboro Bridge/Bruckner Expressway from East 132nd to East 141st, is…
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As many NYC railbuffs (but a decreasing number of them) remember, the last NYC subways grade crossing was way out at the far southeast of Brooklyn in Canarsie, at the…
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KEEP looking down…you may see a piece of New York City forgotten history. A few years ago I was ambling east on East 95th Street near Hunter College High School…
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FORGOTTEN FAN Jonathan Rickard passes along what appear to be exposed trolley tracks, and a bit of Belgian block paving, in a storage area at the remaining 1909 vintage lamppost…
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INSPIRATION for Forgotten New York items comes from all over. Attention was called on x (twitter) about a curious sign on a one-story brick building, #544 Vanderbilt Avenue at Ellington…
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WAY BACK in 1999. the dawn of the Forgotten NY era, I profiled Lake Place, an odd east-west alley in Gravesend running east from 86th Street at West 11th Street…