Kips Bay

I was stopped in my tracks by this arresting building at 160-162 Lexington Avenue at East 30th Street, especially by its massive Ionic columns (actually pilasters, since their backs are…

While walking up Park Avenue South from Union Square, you’ll notice this painted sign on the right gradually coming into view. It’s on a building in the corner of East…

The 28th Street station on the Lexington Avenue IRT (e.g., the #6 train) is one of what I call the Original 28 — the original 28 stations built by the…

It was the 4th of July in 2012, and crazy from the heat, I was meandering in a zigzagged fashion carrying a camera. Not in the mood for an extremely…

Theodore Roszak’s abstract sculpture ‘Sentinel’ stands on 1st Avenue opposite Bellevue Hospital, next to the Public Health Laboratories. Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was an American sculptor and painter. He…

Manhattan’s grid, first imposed in 1811, is remarkably rigid between 14th Street and 59th, with very few interruptions from the system of north-south avenues and east-west streets. This is a…

I was aimlessly and unsteadily scarpering east on East 32nd Street a couple of years ago, looking for something interesting to photograph, when I happened on an isolated turn of…

People who have followed Forgotten NY over the years know by now that your webmaster is a type fanatic. I have been ever since I got involved with my college…

Is walking the best way for your webmaster to get around in NYC? I think so. When in a car or bus, whatever interests me goes by in a hurry;…

This time, as we open the ancient New York City Street Necrology with its cracked, crumbling leather cover, a dogeared page with running, streaming ink and stains from lord knows…

Nestled in prosperous Murray Hill on East 36th Street between 3rd and Lexington is one of the few alleys of the midtown area. Sniffen Court was constructed between 1850 and…