ONE lit off for Red Hook on November 27, 2021 (new thing: I have decided to put an exact date on the photography in Forgotten NY posts, since this is…

In November 2021 I lit off for a walk through Elmhurst that wound me up at the Mets-Willets Point Long Island Rail Road station in Flushing Meadows, which I’ve found…

THIS photo from the 1940 NYC Municipal Archives of the SE corner of Jerome Avenue and East Fordham Road has been making the Facebook rounds, at least my humble corner…

BACK in November 2021 I was furtively creeping west along 35th Avenue in Long Island City for the want of anything else to do (it was a Sunday, and both…

YOU can’t tell by the Forgotten New York website design in which red and white dominate, but in actuality, black and yellow is my favorite color combination even though I…

HERE’S a look at the westbound exit ramp of the Queens-Midtown tunnel the year it opened, in 1940. To an infrastructure buff, there are several interesting things going on here.…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent MORE than two decades have passed since Kevin Walsh launched Forgotten-NY and among the neighborhoods that continues to reveal fascinating details of city history…

I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…

NEW York City’s largest train yard, Sunnyside Yard, is indeed vast. When I took the Long Island Rail Road to Manhattan every day, I rode the tracks going south of…

LOWERY Street is, or was, one of many north-south parallel streets in Sunnyside. It received a number, 40, during the 1920s. For an unprepossessing side street, the Department of Transportation…

“I know what I am, I’m glad I’m a man, and so’s Lola,” Ray Davies of the Kinks once sang. It’s good to know what you are. I’m not a…

STRANGE that we remember things somewhat fondly after awhile that at the time, were borderline dangerous or scary. In April 2011 I was patrolling the Newtown Creek area with Mitch…