Madison Square

I was plodding along West 23rd Street west of 5th Avenue in June 2024 when I spotted something curious. Over the past 20 years, a new species of lamppost has…

I was in the New-York Historical Society on July 4th, 2024 puttering around the exhibits, when i saw a rectangular post in a glass case, marked with a “4” on…

THERE are a couple of interesting churches around town named for the Transfiguration, an incident described in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke in which Jesus reveals His divinity…

I always liked the song “I’ve Been Everywhere”; its most famous versions are by Johnny Cash and Hank Snow. More than 131 versions exist adapted from the Australian original with…

JUST as Macy’s moved uptown from its original location, so did Lord & Taylor. The store’s third location was in this French Second Empire building, on the southwest corner of…

THE General William Jenkins Worth Monument, on the triangle formed by Broadway, 5th Avenue, and 25th Street, not only is a memorial to the general (1794-1849), but is also his…

PERHAPS McSorley’s, Fanelli’s, the Old Town Bar, and the Ear Inn are more chronicled in the city’s lore and literature (at least they have in Forgotten NY) , but the Grand…

“MOVIE Mike” Olshan, who has been with me on a number of Forgotten New York tours, sent me this detail at #315 Park Avenue South, at the southeast corner of…

It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series…  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street and…

Before the Great Infection, I spent a number of Saturdays (and some Sundays too) crisscrossing Manhattan via its numbered streets. Over the years, I’ve done this quite a few times…

The William H. Seward monument in Madison Square at the corner of 5th Avenue and East 23rd Street has been a meeting place for a number of Forgotten NY tours…

The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…