By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent FNY has highlighted trains and stations on the original IRT line. This time FNY will take a look at the most overlooked structures of…
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Once upon a time, telephone customers were assigned alphanumeric telephone numbers. For example, the numbers were such as FOundation 8-3556 (now 368-2556), MOnument 2-2491 (now 662-2491) or NEvins 8-3886 (now 638-3886). The…
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So you’re wandering about in the Bronx wilds east of Bronx Park, where you’ve just photographed an American replica of the shrine at Lourdes (more about that on a future FNY…
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From the ForgottenBook: The New York Botanical Garden and New York Zoological Park (known to all as the Bronx Zoo) are the two main divisions of Bronx Park, which was acquired by the city (mostly…
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All five NYC boroughs have a Grand Street or Grand Avenue (Brooklyn’s Grand Street and Queens’ Grand Avenue run continuously). The late Bronx historian John McNamara, in History in Asphalt, claims the Bronx’…
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A note from ForgottenFan Ron Bollerman: I wanted to write and thank you for your page on “Mott Haven”. It helped me to find a building that my great, great grandfather…
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COMMIES AND FASCISTS. Their governments may be dead, but some of the remains can be found in NYC
by Kevin WalshMike Tyson wears a Mao tattoo. Thousands wear T-shirts depicting Che Guevara. (Dozens wear the Forgotten NY T-Shirt). Communist ideology has produced totalitarian governments that enslaved and murdered millions throughout the decades,…
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The Bronx’s Longwood and Hunts Point, heavily residential and, toward the East River, industrial, are remnants of country estates: Longwood Park was an 1870s estate owned by Samuel B. White, and…
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Your webmaster has to admit, I’d never been to Schrafft’s, Chock Full O’Nuts, or the Automat. As a matter of fact, I can only recall being in a McDonald’s before age…
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During the existence of Forgotten New York, which began in 1998, we’ve mourned the loss of several of New York’s grand old watering holes such as Flessel’s in College Point, Queens; Gage and Tollner in…
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“I’m in the mood for Easter everywhere,”once sang idiosyncratic “Arch-drude” British psychedelicist Julian Cope*, and so was your webmaster as he stormed the Bronx for what must have been the first…
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The Golden Age of NYC Neon has come and gone. Believe it or not, the noble gas (since it combines with other elements only reluctantly, in lab conditions) is fairly…