The Lower East Side of Manhattan, roughly defined by East Houston Street on the north, the East River on the east and south, and by the Manhattan Bridge and the…
Lower East Side
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By GARY FONVILLE Forgotten NY correspondent As I often do, I come across material for FNY by happenstance. I had just exited the Manhattan Bridge, upper level, made a right…
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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…
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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…