Manhattan

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…

YOGI Berra said it best, as he often did: “You can observe a lot by looking.” I must have used that quote in FNY before, but not lately. I was…

WHILE looking around for a relatively short walk recently I settled on MacDougal Street, which many think of as the commercial north-south spine of Greenwich Village. Well, I thought it…

TUCKED away on St. Mark’s Place in the East Village is a reminder that it used to be NYC’s foremost German neighborhood. The German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse (Deutsch-Amerikanische Schuetzen Gesselschaft),…

WHILE traipsing the northern leg of the High Line recently I noticed something interesting about the green Corvington streetlamps along the West Side Highway, officially called West Street here, but…

THE Butterick Building at the NW corner of 6th Avenue and Spring was built in 1903, before 6th Avenue was built. Butterick is a sewing pattern company founded in 1863 by Ebenezer…