On a walk in the recently reopened southern section of East River Park in October 2025 I spotted the tug Stephen B. guiding the barge John Blanche in the East…
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THROUGHOUT its 142-year (and counting) history, the Brooklyn Bridge has featured unique road and walkway lighting. I thought I’d show some historic black and white photos illustrating this, courtesy the…
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WHEN prominent apartment buildings in Bay Ridge are under discussion, Flagg Court (seen on this page), developed by premier architect Ernest Flagg (Singer Building) comes first to mind, but the…
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From the Facebook page Old NYC Photo Dump comes this image of the Seven Seas Restaurant, Surf Avenue at West 16th Street, in 1985. I don’t know much about the…
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Forgotten Fan Steve Stein passes along an image of an IND-style subway exit stanchion, marked by red glass, and some railing at a place where no exit can be found,…
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In the early years of this website, Kevin Walsh returned to Atlantic Yards (Now known as Pacific Park) on many occasions, documenting the transformation of a railyard and former meatpacking…
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Continued from Part One WHEN a website is as old as Forgotten New York, which was conceived in the “stone knives and bearskins” (to quote Mr. Spock) era of the…
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WHEN a website is as old as Forgotten New York, which was conceived in the “stone knives and bearskins” (to quote Mr. Spock) era of the internet in which you…
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BEFORE cellular phones took over in the 1990s, small, wireless devices, beepers, received short messages, typically numeric (like a callback number) or brief text, by alerting the user with a…
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CHRISTIAN imagery abounds on Carroll Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Park Slope, even on the non-ecclesiastical buildings. Across the street from Francis Xavier Church is what probably used to be…
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Continued from Part 2 HOPING I’ll be able to return to lengthy walks sometime soon but fortunately, I do have a backlog of photos such as the 133 I got…
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HERE’S a painted ad featuring several Brooklyn newspapers of old, since absorbed into other media, at the Kings Highway N train station. Bay News and Brooklyn Courier were once one…