March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…
Central Park
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“What hath God wrought?” With those words, the Information Age began. You know Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) invented the telegraph and sent that first famous message in 1844 … but did you…
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On the northern edge of Central Park, the hills are steep, and rough hewn staircases ascend as high as a two or three story building. This part of the park…
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Domesticated birds of prey such as falcons, hawks and eagles can be trained to locate prey for human owners. Falconers train their namesake bird while austringers train hawks and eagles. Red-tailed hawks…
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A quartet of some of NYC’s oldest lampposts of modern design can be found on The 65th Street Transverse Road, at the east and westbound separated lanes, facing 5th Avenue…
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Playmates Arch, along with the Dairy, the Carousel, the Zoo and the Chess & Checkers House, is in a part of Central Park once formally designated as the Children’s District.…
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FNY had a brand new tour on July 10, 2016 concentrating on Northern Central Park, including Harlem Meer, seen above. It looks quite natural today but Harlem Meer, named for a Dutch…
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Located deep in northern Central Park are remnants of the United Staes’ second war with Britain, the War of 1812, fought for a variety of reasons including British “impressments” of…
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Central Park masterminds Frederick Olmsted and Calvert Vaux whimsically named several main park exterior openings as ‘gates’ when the park was being built in the 1860s. Running clockwise around the park…
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Located in a dead-end park path just south of the 96th Street Transverse Road just off 5th Avenue, this replica of a lifesize portrait of Danish sculptor Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen…
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Balto was a Siberian Husky who led a dogsled team carrying desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin through a blizzard to Nome, Alaska, in January 1925. A plaque below Balto’s statue is a…
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To many observers, Huddlestone is the most remarkable ornamental arch in the park. From some angles, it resembles a natural cave. It rests on neither mortar nor metal supports and is…