HESTER is name not commonly given to girls anymore, but it has a lengthy history; it’s a variant of the Hebrew name Esther, which translates to “star.” Many Hesters have…
Little Italy
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It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively, I’ve decided…
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Baxter Street begins at NYC’s more infamous precincts (for two separate reasons over the years) and runs generally north and northwest to Grand, where it ends at the old but…
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In deep and dark November I took a walk straight up Mulberry Street for its entire length, which I had never previously done. It skirts the west edge of Chinatown and cleaves…
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I did a presentation on Monday, March 7, 2016 in Astoria about Travis, Staten Island, a place formerly known as Linoleumville, where between 1873 and 1931 there was a large…
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As early as 2005, I was chronicling the changing Bowery in Forgotten New York and was lamenting the imminent demise of McGurk’s Suicide Hall just north of East Houston Street.…
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By MICHAEL CASTELROSO Special to Forgotten New York The original Puglia, 189 Hester Street, Little Italy, was opened at 117 Mott Street by Gregorio Garofalo in 1919. Garofalo, an…
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I’m thankful that a small number of “original” bishop crook lamps from the early 20th Century have been allowed to stand (mostly by default, but now most are landmarked) like…
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Centre Market Place is a one-block street in Manhattan’s Little Italy. It runs between Grand and Broome Street on the eastern end of the 1905 former NYPD Headquarters. When I…
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The best Forgotten New York walks encompass worlds. A recent walk I did in a loop around northeast Staten Island brought me from the million-dollar mansions surrounding hidden lakes and…
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I haven’t done as many long-form specials with as many as 100 pictures per page of late. In the Age of Twitter, people are increasingly impatient with these long treatises…
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FDNY Engine 55 at 363 Broome Street near Mott is especially reconizable because of its large terra cotta identifying label across the top of the front entrance. The firehouse was…