THE Donald Deskey lamppost, introduced in 1958, was a very adaptable and modular beast. Its most frequent use was the single-arm mast, and though SLECO stopped producing them around 1980,…
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A relatively rare midday post, or posts, today as I injured my back during the usual morning routine and decided to take a day off from working at home for…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THE single-block Diamond District of 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues seems to change slowly, in comparison to neighboring blocks. Many of its buildings…
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In early 2021, Sergey Kadinsky profiled Waterline Square, the final piece in the Riverside South development, which opened for luxury units in 2019. Its usual compliment of glass-fronted towers, designed…
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I was staggering around in western Queens in July 2020, crazed from the humidity, when I found this mailbox trio. The mailbox on the left, painted olive green, is called…
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YELLOW brick roads are hard to find in New York City, as brick paved roads have been relentlessly asphalted the past few decades. To find one, it helps if the…
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STUYVESANT Town sits on an almost-square defined by East 14th and East 20th Street, 1st Avenue and Avenue C, with 89 buildings containing 8,757 apartments. By auto it’s accessed by…
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325 Spring Street fills an entire rectangular block between Spring, West Houston, Washington and Greenwich Streets and has been home to several trucking businesses, including United Parcel Service, since 1949.…
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BEEN a few years since I walked Vanderbilt Avenue, so I decided to do a section of it on a walk in August 2021 that took me from Fulton Street…
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IT’S no-frills dining at its finest in this restaurant on Laurel Hill Boulevard in 1938. Straight-backed wood seats, tables and checkered tablecloths in what was likely an Italian eatery. Within…
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LIKE most Brooklyn parents, mine accompanied me to Coney Island on numerous Sundays when I was a kid; I seem to remember getting a string of tickets that would let…
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I have pointed out this particular painted ad for the long-lost Automat before, but it’s been awhile. While walking down 7th Avenue all these years ago, I happened to look up…