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…
Forest Hills
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This is obviously not a recent photo; it’s from January 2009, after the stoplights had been removed from this Olive post at 110th Street and 69th Road in Forest Hills. Traffic…
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I got nothin’ today…or I wouldn’t except for this photo submitted by Forest Hiller Vicki Metzger (who is standing right next to one on this FNY page), showing an ordinary…
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photo: Bob Mulero I’ve known about them for years, but never did anything about them until now. The IND Queens Boulevard Line was opened in stages between 1933 and 1988…
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Excuse the presence of the chain link fence in this shot, but the only way to shoot this increasingly-rare bracketed double Deskey still hanging in there on the Grand Central…
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PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 | PART 4 | PART 5 Metropolitan Avenue is one of the lengthiest routes between Brooklyn and Queens. It was first built in 1815, give or take a year, as…
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World-renowned muralist Richard Haas‘ work depicting Forest Hills Gardens has appeared on the bank on the southeast corner of Queens Boulevard and 71st Road since 1989. Haas, whose murals can…
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A couple of relics on 70th Road and Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills… Now that the city will stop installing new “Curb Your Dog” signs and will presumably be removing…
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I thought I was done with Walnut Street in Forest Hills. I really thought I was. A few months ago [February 2014] I devoted a page to this one-block street…
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Since I began photography for FNY in 1998 I have chanced upon these small, ridged stoplight posts I dubbed “Olives” because they were inevitably painted olive green. They could still…
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Younger neighborhood folks, if they notice it at all, may be perplexed by this olive-colored post at the corner of 69th Road and 110th Street in Forest Hills. It used…
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What’s the most unusual street in Queens? For me, it’s a one-block street near the southern limit of Forest Hills, running between 70th Drive and 71st Avenue just north of…