WHAT a difference 6 years make. In March 2015 I was picking my way through Tribeca at the end of a considerably cold winter, by far the coldest in recent…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent In heavily urbanized western Queens there is a superblock parcel measuring nearly 300 acres that is tightly protected from the public. It has been…

GLAD to get out of the house for the first time in a couple of weeks (I’m “chained to the computer” at home during the week, and the weekends have…

THERE’S a lot going on in this photo I cribbed from Al Ponte’s Time Machine on Facebook of the west side of 4th Avenue between Pacific Street and Atlantic Avenue…

AWHILE back, Forgotten NY noted some unexpected vehicular tunnels around town on a page that got good response. It got me to thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town…

WHILE edging down Hudson Street In October 2021 I once again passed Golden Rule Liquors at #457 with its pair of neon sidewalk signs, one above the door, one suspended…

HERE’S a magnificent arch bridge, probably steel clad in concrete, taking the Grand Central Parkway above Hollis Court Boulevard in Holliswood in the Fab Fifties. Hollis Court Boulevard used to…

In November 2021 it occurred to me that I had never walked the full length of Forest Avenue in Staten Island. I embarked on it, but did about half, getting…

YOU have probably never heard of James Weir, he lived and died in the 19th Century. But his fingerprints can still be found in Brooklyn. Montague Street in recent years…

I think it was about a year ago when I set off a Facebook war of sorts when I featured a well-known Gravesend institution, L&B Spumoni Gardens on 86th Street.…

BEFORE anyone says anything —since Forgotten New York can be the headquarters of Nitpickers International at times — yes, I know there are five shots on this One Shots page.…

THE country of Lebanon, wedged along the Mediterranean Sea between Israel and Syria, pops up here and there on New York city maps. There had been a Lebanon Terrace in…