Financial District

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent THERE are few parks in the city that are older than Central Park and rise near its level of fame. Battery Park is certainly known…

By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In July 2023, Kevin rediscovered a lost street in downtown Manhattan named Cheseborough Court, which ran for a block between Bridge and Pearl Streets, near…

I have been perusing my collection of ancient maps, blowing off the dust from maps I have in my closet I haven’t turned to in years; I have them collected…

In early December 2020 it was a grey cold weekday (with wet snow later), but nonetheless I had the “Wandering Sickness” and decided to go straight up William Street in…

JOHN. It’s probably the most common given name in the English language. Most Johns walking around today are likely named for their father, or a prominent family member, who were…

I don’t have too much to say about this 5-story walkup building at #105 Broad Street, corner of Water, in the Financial District except to say it’s unusual for the…

MAIDEN Lane is one of the oldest routes in Manhattan, following a curved path from Broadway at Cortlandt Street east to South Street. On a ferry trip from Hunters Point…

On a sunny late July 2022 Sunday, I decided to check out Trinity Churchyard and Broadway. I really had not spent any length of time there in a decade and…

AFTER posting the item on #4 New York Plaza at Broad and Water Streets recently, I needed a quick Sunday feature because of time constraints. The day I shot that…

I wonder if a cab driver, if asked to go to “New York Plaza.” would know where to take you. It’s an important route…no street sign has ever carried its…

I got the street sign seen here on Christmas 2020 at a flea market in what had seemingly forever been an empty lot at 6th Avenue and West 28th Street…

Hugh L. Carey (1919-2011) was the formidably sideburned NY State Governor from 1975 to 1982; before that, the World War II veteran served as a US Representative from NY State…