WHAT St. Nicholas Park lacks in width, it makes up for in length, extending from West 128th Street all the way north to West 141st, but at the width of…
Hamilton Heights
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Continued from Part 1 I had an interregnum of work this past spring (2018), the better part of two months for a financial printer in Midtown. The hours were overnights…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In his previous crosstown photo surveys, Kevin Walsh walked from river to river on Houston Street, 14th Street, and 155th Street, the highest marked…
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There are still some parts of Manhattan I haven’t been in with regularity since I began photographing this website in 1998, and the area in the West 140s from St.…
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Here’s a vintage Bishop Crook lamp that none of my reference materials cite — it’s completely forgotten and overlooked, on the west side of Riverside Drive between West 143rd and…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the…
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On a crystal clear day in September, I took the A train like Ellington uptown to the 145th Street station and started idly milling about the upper Manhattan neighborhoods of…
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Saturday, September 7th was yet one more in a string of sunny days for ForgottenTours –throughout 2010 and much of 2011 we couldn’t avoid the raindrops, but the past two…
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It’s something of a miracle that a truck hasn’t run it over, but this one-of-a-kind Twin still stands at Amsterdam Avenue, Hamilton Place and West 144th in upper Manhattan. The…
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Always have a camera. Lesson learned at Broadway and West 147th in Hamilton Heights, where the old Bunny Theater has been forver stripped of its rabbits. The Bunny Theatre at…
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I thought I’d seen them all. The remaining Bishop Crooks from NYC’s golden era of castiron posts, 1915-1950, of course. Only about 12-25 of them remain — Bishop Crooks, Corvingtons,…
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In July 2012, I was wandering around Hamilton Heights on an overcast and overhumid afternoon in quest of Alexander Hamilton‘s house, built in 1802, that he called the Grange in…