I recently walked from Briarwood to Forest Hills, mostly along Austin Street, a walk I hope to complete along its northern section soon. I have also published a couple pieces…

NON-residents of Staten Island may not know that the borough has its very own rail line which, although resembling a subway, isn’t run as a subway at all. Formerly known as…

NOT since 2019 had I been in Canarsie, on the southeast end of Brooklyn facing Jamaica Bay. I just hadn’t had the opportunity. That year, I walked all the way…

By PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY guest post BRIARWOOD, Queens was developed in stages beginning in 1905 by the Briarwood Land Company and bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west,…

In his past visits to downtown Jamaica, Kevin documented alleys such as Burdette Place in 2014 and Clinton Terrace in 2000. The latter was part of a larger essay on…

WHAT is now called Shore Parkway was constructed as the Circumferential Parkway in 1940 but the official name was changed, soon enough, to Shore Parkway to the delight of sign…

Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…

CORONA, the neighborhood in Queens west of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, has three separate historic firehouses, one of which is still used for its original purpose. I recently noticed two of…

WHILE working on a longform piece I realized I wouldn’t be done by the weekend, and while I wait for some kind of employment, the weekdays are available for walks…

LOCATED in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, two-mile long Roosevelt Island since 1971 has been the home of a small town of about 8,300 people in the midst…

In the summer of 2010, I was immensely happy to be able to mount an exhibit at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg that I put together with MTA employee Robert…

PENNYFIELD Avenue, the road to Fort Schuyler in Throg(g)s Neck (the DOT has one “g,” residents have two “g”‘s) runs from the Cross Bronx Expressway south to the fort, which…