For years it was, for me, the Holy Grail of ancient lamppost photo opportunities: an original Corvington lamppost trapped behind the gates of a Con Edison substation like a bug…
Brooklyn
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The Department of Transportation recently bagged another pair of ancient street signs in Brooklyn recently, as on today’s Fort Greene foray I found the pair shown here had finally been…
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Forgotten NY has appeared in all three of NYC’s daily papers over the years, in articles about the website and the book and also articles written by me. I once…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent On the windswept block of West 24th Street between Surf Avenue and the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island stands the Parks Department’s Coney Island Garage…
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The fifth bridge to cross the noxious and noisome Newtown Creek between the unglamorous neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Blissville opens to traffic as the rickety bucket of bolts known as…
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In 1999 I investigated and photographed a Canarsie dead end called Savage Lane, which I have found on only one map: the Colorprint NYC atlas produced by the American Map…
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In 1999, waiting for a train at the Smith-9th Street elevated IND station, I snapped a photo of the massive Kentile Floors neon sign, built to attract business from the…
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Before about 2000 or so, there was an object that closely resembled a tombstone, at least from the back, at Ocean Parkway and Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. That year…
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Continued from Part 1 FNY has been spending a lot of time in Brooklyn of late, at least for the weekly longform posts, and I’ll continue in that vein this…
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FNY has been spending a lot of time in Brooklyn of late, at least for the weekly longform posts, and I’ll continue in that vein this week and next, with…
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Well-plumbed NYC territory for Forgotten NY, I realize, but it was time for my annual winter or early spring pilgrimage to Nathan’s in Coney Island. I have joined the Polar…
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In the summer of 1999 or 2000 I was riding down Brooklyn’s Broadway El, of course riding in the front car of the R-40 so I could see out the…