Forgotten Fan Bill Mangahas passed along this photo taken a few years ago by Jay Bendersky of a painted building ad on Avenue J just east of Coney Island Avenue.…
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with SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent I imagine that you weren’t aware that there’s a neighborhood called Mapleton in Brooklyn. It’s barely there anymore, as the larger neighborhoods of Bensonhurst and…
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A short while ago I wrote a piece that showed you all the streets that carry presidential names in NYC, whether or not they were actually named for presidents. This…
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From 1982 to 1988, the BMT 8th Avenue station serving the N train in Brooklyn was my daily means of getting to my night job at Photo-Lettering, the city’s biggest…
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I had the occasion to delve into the wilderness of southern Brooklyn recently, into Midwood and Marine Park, a realm I used to invade frequently on bike rides from Bay…
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The MTA is doing a $1 million study to possibly revive the Long Island Rail Road Bay Ridge Branch for passenger service, which hasn’t been there since 1924. Currently, much…
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Continued from Part 1 I stalk neighborhoods with the camera, attempting to see old and decrepit things amid the new and shiny things. I began Forgotten New York when I…
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Probably no other Brooklyn neighborhood has as many ghosts as Coney Island, from Luna Park to Steeplechase to George Tilyou to the Elephant Hotel. For over sixty years, Surf Avenue’s…
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I stalk neighborhoods with the camera, attempting to see old and decrepit things amid the new and shiny things. I began Forgotten New York when I was forty (there was…
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I was meandering my way northeast in Bushwick the other day, heading for 69th Street in Maspeth where I would catch the Q18 bus back to Woodside, and the LIRR…
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My pal Sarah Celentano of the New-York Historical Society spent Christmas Eve 2019 at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and got some photos of the Christmas family plot. It’s one of…
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by GARY FONVILLEForgotten NY correspondent This may be the first of a kind for FNY. Kevin Walsh and I have taken an untold number of pictures of signs that represented businesses that no…