Brooklyn

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent New York is a city with 520 miles of coastline taking into account the city’s islands, inlets, coves, bays, and basins. At places where…

It occurred to me that I had never been to Dead Horse Bay, located on the southern end of Flatbush Avenue just north of the Marine Parkway (Gil Hodges) Bridge,…

Continued from Part 1 Not long ago I marched down 4th Avenue and 39th Street in a neighborhood called Greenwood Heights, after its position just west of Green-Wood Cemetery. A…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In my appreciation of the city’s eternal green public spaces, I enjoy documenting the history of parks big and small. Throughout the Five Boroughs,…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In November 2013, Kevin Walsh set out to document every street in the city that uses a full name. The list excluded honorific co-named…

I am starting a new occasional series in Forgotten NY imaginatively called “Interesting Subway Stations” in which I take a station and profile both the station and the immediate surrounding…

Were you aware the MTA makes street maps? They certainly do and they are available for perusal at every subway station. Now, the MTA’s version of New York City is…

Sunset Park’s boundaries are under dispute (like any other Brooklyn neighborhood) but to me it’s rather simple: Upper New York Bay waterfront, 39th Street, 9th Avenue, the Bay Ridge Branch…

By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent Since the advent of home PCs, Facebook, Text Messaging,  Email, Cell Phones and many other technologies, communication has changed greatly as a result.  Who would’ve thought…

I admit it — I have been quite bullish about the subway lately in light of the three new 2nd avenue Subway stations that opened January 1, 2017, and the new Hudson Yards western terminus of the #7 train that opened in September 2015. Let me clarify by saying I’m bullish about subway station design.

Some of the buildings on Franklin Street in Greenpoint bear the stamp of the old C.A. Friberg Iron Foundry, #2 to 8 Driggs Street. There is no Driggs Street at…

There’s a certain small percentage of FNY readers who will recognize what this is right off the bat. I wouldn’t blame the rest of you, since you’re not lamppost fanatics.…