Manhattan

On a warmish day in mid-April I decided to take a walk in the Chelsea area near the High Line, which as you know is the 1934 elevated freight railroad…

HERE’S a Forgotten NY touchstone at #109 West 17th (west of 6th Avenue) I have come back to over and over since its location was pointed out to me by…

At the corner of 122nd Street and Third Avenue in East Harlem is a set of residential towers whose appearance stands out among its neighbors. The name, flags and murals…

I’M the first to admit when I’m stumped. In early February 2024, I walked 37th Street for my Forgotten NY Crosstown series, but like so many series I have shot…

DOES the Fulton Transit Center at Broadway and Fulton Street offer entrance to the greatest number of subway lines in the city? The BMT, IND and IRT are all represented,…

THIS forlorn subway entrance, with its rolldown aluminum gate (that I have never seen open) is actually all that remains of the old Pennsylvania Hotel, built in 1919, closed in…

THE Dyckman Street station on the #1 train, Dyckman Street and Nagle Avenue, is among my favorites, because it emerges from a tunnel into the light, like Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue station and…

SEEN here on a Forgotten NY tour in 2018, The Tompkins Square Temperance Monument, erected in 1891, was a gift from a San Francisco dentist and temperance activist, Henry Cogswell (1820-1900).…

I am, or was, frequently on the block of East 18th between Broadway and Park Avenue South, just north of Union Square. Though I haven’t been in lately, I’ve been…

DON’T let the glassy exterior of the building on the NE corner of Lexington Avenue and East 45th fool you…this building, now home to Midtown Comics on the second floor,…

FOR some reason, I failed to include this in the recent online zoom chat I gave regarding mosaic subway art. I’m unsure whether to post the rest in Forgotten NY,…

I didn’t realize it at the time, since the ground floor had been corrupted and “modernized” while I was working there, but 150 5th Avenue at W. 20th Street is…