PRIOR to 2019 or so, the south side of Delancey Street between Essex and Clinton Streets was undeveloped territory, with lots that were empty or given over to parking. That…
Lower East Side
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BEFORE heading off to see the recently reopened section of East River Park (on an upcoming FNY post) I decided to check out Rutgers Street, because I had never walked…
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WE’VE been to the Lower East Side many times in the history of Forgotten-NY and each time we return there’s something old that we haven’t yet documented. The Tenement Museum…
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THE word “donnybrook” is derived from a public fair that was held in Donnybrook, Ireland beginning in the 1200s. By the 1800s, the Donnybrook Fair had a reputation of being a drunken, wild…
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MANHATTAN boasts a Manhattan Avenue on the Upper West Side, which runs from West 100th Street one block west of Central Park West north past Morningside Park to West 124th…
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In the winter of 2024-2025 I covered a great deal of the Lower East Side and East Village, on Avenues A through D. Still plagued by age-related back issues, I…
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NEW YORK CITY once had four main trunk elevated lines: the 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 9th Avenue Els. Of these, the Third Avenue gets the most of meager press attention…
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THIS week I’m continuing with explorations of north-south streets in Chinatown, Little Italy and the Lower East Side. Having already covered Christie Street and Eldridge Street, I’ll complete the trio…
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At #178 Norfolk Street south of East Houston, keep looking up for a triumphant statue of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the chief architect of the Soviet state that ruled much of eastern…
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In recent Lower East Side wanderings I came once again to one of NYC’s best Roman Catholic mini-cities, way over in the far east of the Lower East, at Pitt…
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Continued from Avenue B FROM late 2024-early 2025, I decided to walk Manhattan’s lettered avenues from A to D (Brooklyn has the full panoply, with a few exceptions, from A…
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In 2009, Forgotten New York walked Division Street, one of Manhattan’s most unremarked-on thoroughfares. It hasn’t gotten much respect over the centuries and decades, either — it’s reduced to less…