TUCKED away beside the Manhattan Bridge, predating it by a century or more, was a one-lane alley called Birmingham Street, running between Henry and Madison Street east of Market Street.…

SEVERAL buildings in the Lower East Side bear Stars of David. The Lower East Side was originally known as Kleindeutschland, or “Little Germany.” After the General Slocum steamboat disaster in…

AFTER nearly a decade when it was obscured by construction netting and scaffolding, the 1912 Jarmulowsky’s Bank building, a “supertall” for its time, has completed a $190M restoration and has…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THE flaw of urban planning in Brooklyn is the beauty of Prospect Park as the borough’s signature greenspace, and seemingly endless blocks of housing…

I’VE talked about Frances Xavier Cabrini before, on the Boulevard that bears her name way uptown in Washington Heights. Well, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, as well as a…

Don’t miss The Other Side of Midnight with Frank Morano on WABC Radio 770 on your AM dial where I talked with Frank about Forgotten New York. I appeared at…

WHEN Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) constructed the original NYC subway from City Hall to 145th Street and Broadway in 1904, creating the Original 28 Stations, some of the stations have…

I have posted about Rex Cole before, but I’m fascinated with these signs, and I seem to find new ones several times per year. As I was hesitatingly scuttling up…

MORE than most other Brooklyn neighborhoods, Gravesend features short, one block streets known as Courts and Places. While a couple of them are “legacy roads” that existed in the colonial…

CONTINUING the same walk begun on Fulton Street, I then continued east on DeKalb Avenue, which begins at the erstwhile domed Dime Savings Bank at Albee Square and like a…

As I have lamented in Forgotten New York before, New York City is much better at eliminating transit lines than building them; during my lifetime, elevateds such as Third Avenue…

THE New York Daily News has been published since 1919. I am no longer a daily reader, but I reveled in its sports section in the 1960s and 1970s, with…