By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On my previous visit to Coney Island, I documented a former bathhouse that became a Parks Department garage. I was informed that it will soon…

THERE’S a genuine log cabin in Canarsie at Flatlands Avenue and East 93rd Street. It was built by the Lloyd Doubleday family from 1936-1939 and was originally an ice cream parlor. Today…

I’m unsure if McHale’s Bar & Grill, #251 West 51st Street, has anything to do with the classic McHale’s, formerly at the NE corner of 8th Avenue and West 46th…

On May 16, 1857 land comprising 100 acres at Willets Point in northeast Queens was acquired from the Willet family by the government, and six years later, additional acreage was…

SADLY the Narrows Coffee Shop closed in 2020, and I only had the pleasure of eating there once. At #10001 4th Avenue, it’s one of a handful of addresses in…

In June 2022 I felt like a walk in southwest Manhattan (I know Manhattan is not often spoken of in terms of “southeast” or “northwest” but…that’s where I happened to…

I’VE always been drawn to photograph obscure alleys and short streets, and Rosebank, Staten Island has more than its share. Kaltenmeier Lane runs for a block between Tilson Place and…

BROOKLYN has a lengthy Park Avenue, as does Manhattan and the Bronx. In Manhattan, Park Avenue, for its entire length, was once 4th Avenue, though only a short section remains…

A sidewalk sign featuring metallic lettering for Hercules Seating can still be found above #25 Park Place downtown, just east of Church Street. As Ephemeral NY points out, the building…

THE Al Smith Houses were built in 1953. Its current boundaries are Madison Street, Catherine Street, St, James Place (formerly New Bowery) and Robert Wagner Senior Place. The project was…

THIS abandoned structure abutting Erie Basin in Red Hook has long been an attraction for the Forgotten NY camera, so I’m reaching into the archives to show it off today.…

Continued from Across the Creek: July 4th in Greenpoint I have not taken many lengthy walks in the summer of 2022 and the last really ambitious one I did was…