By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent Having documented the abandoned Dr. Simon Baruch Public Bath as part of the page on East River Park, I went a mile to the…
Lower East Side
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This underwear wholesaler/retailer at 339 Grand Street and Ludlow not only has its 1940s painted sidewalk sign still intact, albeit peeling just a bit by now, but the building in which…
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Inscribed with the words “Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life” this mural at 232 East Broadway east of Clinton Street depicted major events in Jewish history…
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I first saw Freeman Alley on a map in the 1980s, when I went to the Rand McNally Map Store on East 53rd Street just east of 5th Avenue and…
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Inscribed with the words “Our Strength Is Our Heritage, Our Heritage Is Our Life” (seen on the lower right) this mural at 232 East Broadway east of Clinton Street depicts…
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Built in 1850, this Gothic Revival structure, originally the Norfolk Street Baptist Church, at Norfolk Street south of Broome Street once housed the nation’s oldest Orthodox Russian Jewish congregation, founded…
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This striking Beaux Arts-style building at 311-313 East Broadway at Grand Street, with contrasting red brick and white stone trim, was built as a community center in 1904 (the date…
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Division Street is one of Manhattan’s most unremarked-on thoroughfares. It hasn’t gotten much respect over the centuries and decades, either — it’s been reduced to less than half of its…
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Perfect weather returned for ForgottenTour #85 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side on October 19th, 2014. I perhaps overpacked the tour with highlights — 60 in all — so I had…
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This pair of Federal Style houses at 511 and 513 Grand Street, just east of East Broadway, with peaked roofs and pedimented dormers, was constructed in 1828 by James Lent…
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It’s hard to say which neighborhood the Cup & Saucer on Canal and Eldridge Streets is in. If this was 30 years ago you could say without a doubt it…
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CONTINUED FROM PART 1 On a midweek summer day in 2014, to relieve boredom and get some exercise as much as anything else, I walked a large circular route through…