No, this isn’t a recent picture. I got it in 1999 or 2000 at Richmond Valley Road at Madsen Avenue in the south end of Staten Island, years before the…
mailboxes
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I was staggering around in western Queens in July 2020, crazed from the humidity, when I found this mailbox trio. The mailbox on the left, painted olive green, is called…
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March 2019 marks Forgotten New York’s 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, I’ve re-scanned about 150 key images from the early days of FNY from 35MM prints. In the early…
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When I first started Forgotten NY in 1998, there were still a number of small slotted mailboxes, mounted on telephone poles or on their own pebbled concrete posts. Every one…
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Every so often while prowling around the lesser-known NYC neighborhoods (OK, who am I kidding, it’s usually only me that prowls like this, but I’ll stick with the phrasing) you…