Forest Hills

Several New York City neighborhoods come together in the triangle of territory opposite St. John’s Cemetery formed by Cooper Avenue, Metropolitan Avenue, and Woodhaven Boulevard. I have to pick one,…

Continued from Part 1 To amuse myself before the football games came on, I decided to walk from my home in Little Neck all the way to 71st/Continental Avenue in…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…