Crazed from the heat, I recently stumbled on board a Long Island Rail Road train, staggered out in Penn Station, unconsciously swiped myself into a downtown subway, and staggered out on…
Greenwich Village
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Though Times Square has certainly changed since I was in school, St. Marks Place (opinions are divided over whether it gets an apostrophe) remains an epicenter of NYC counterculture –…
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December 5, 2003 wasn’t exactly a great day in Forgottenville — it was a Saturday, I was working at Macy’s, as all of us at Macy’s had to do on Saturdays…
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There are two spots in Manhattan where 4th and 10th meet — and 4th and 11th, 12th and 13th, as well. 4th Avenue and East 10th, 11th and 12th Streets,…
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Desperate from some surcease from the baking, broiling madness that was the summer of 2010 in New York, a summer that saw over a month total lof plus-90 degree weather, a…
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The West Side Freight Elevated, colloquially known as the High Line (shouldn’t all elevated trains be High Lines?) has seen its share of coverage in Forgotten New York, from 1999, when the…
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News came this week [2009] that a 600 year old tree in Douglaston was rotting — it wasn’t dead yet, but it was getting there finally, and before more branches cracked off, it…
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I was at West 14th and 8th Avenue the other day when I decided to walk Bleecker Street from 8th Avenue all the way east to the Bowery, its entire…
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“Bedford” is perhaps a better-known appellation on Brooklyn, where Bedford Avenue is the borough’s longest, running from Greenpoint to Sheepshead Bay, or the Bronx, where Bedford Park borders Fodham University and…
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Even as NYC’s Department of Transportation has been installing retro Bishop Crooks and retro M24 longarm Corvingtons, and even some scattered reverse scroll Type F’s and Lyres around town (forgive me,…
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I was surprised, and disappointed, to see one of NYC’s iconic painted walldog ads is gone, as the giant Wellner Motors ad on Greenwich Avenue facing 8th opposite Jackson Square has…
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Lucky thing Forgotten NY has a deep bench — on Saturday, January 19, 2008 I walked Fifth Avenue from Washington Square to Central Park, obtaining pictures for an upcoming page.…