Central Park

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…

From the ForgottenBook: Climbing the Great Hill from Central Park West and 103rd Street, you follow a pathway for awhile, pass the Pool through Glen Span Arch, along a babbling…

One of the few tangible remains of the War of 1812, in which Britain again invaded the USA and the USA invaded what became Canada, can be found in Northern…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   In the center of Manhattan Island, Central Park takes up 843 glorious acres of naturalistic landscape. As summer humidity sets in, the park’s…

One of my favorite masonry or brick arches in Central Park is Willowdell, which takes  East Drive over the park path connecting Literary Walk and the Balto sled dog memorial…

I know about Thomas Gainsborough, but I pretty much know about him because of The Kinks. The portrait and landscape painter’s (1727-1788) most famous work is The Blue Boy, rendered…

By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent   Central Park is the least forgotten park in the city, but within it are numerous items that are off the public radar. One…

When I worked at Macy’s between 2000-2004, the first year I was there, the summer of 2000, I took a lot of lunch hour time to get photos for FNY,…

All along East Drive in Central Park, the Department of Transportation has installed light emitting diode, or LED, luminaires.   I read that the plan calls for LEDs, which shine…

Of course, I have in my possession a manual depicting the over 200 varieties of lampposts found on NYC streets before 1936, when it was written. Most of these lamppost…

In the past I have chronicled the remaining “Wheelie” stoplights in New York City — those long-armed castiron stoplights outwardly resembling Corvington lampposts, but instead of the usual inner scrollwork,…

And then there was one. The 65th Street Transverse Road through Central Park used to feature a few Type 8S “Curved mast” poles, complete with their original 1950s-era Westinghouse “cuplights.”…