In October I took advantage of the preternaturally balmy and clear weather (Central Park recorded .01″ of rain the entire month) and walked through Chelsea and The West Village, catching…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In Manhattan, open space is nearly nonexistent, with the sky as its frontier for growth. Universities on this island with vertical campuses include CUNY’s Baruch…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent SINCE the turn of the millennium, the city’s bridges have been subject to road diets, in which space was dedicated for bikes and pedestrians,…
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As I was hanging around Trinity Cemetery in summer 2022, I happened upon the gravestone of Sidney Breese. The ornate inscription on the stone reads: Sidney Breese June 9, 1767Made…
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RECENTLY, my pal from my Macy’s era Tim Skoldberg pointed out that the universal peace symbol formed in bricks at the East 10th Street entrance of St. Mark’s Church at…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent On a recent walk on 12th Street, a block from the world’s largest used bookshop, I passed by a scaffolding-clad public school building dating to…
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YEAR-END Billboard charts for 1979 included the top hits “My Sharona,” “Bad Girls,” “Le Freak,” “I Will Survive,” and “YMCA” as disco reached its chart peak that year. None of…
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I recently revisited Beaver Street, downtown in the financial district. One of Manhattan’s oldest streets was named very early on, in the 1660s, and commemorates the paddle-tailed, dam-building, aquatic rodent…
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SADLY, this painted sidewalk sign for glazier Ideal Glass at #20-22 East 2nd Street near 2nd Avenue (that’s a lot of “2”‘s) has been painted over, giving the space a…
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I have always had a fascination for the structure in the wedge of territory between Lafayette and Mulberry where they meet Bleecker. Right now the building comes to one of…
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EARLY December 2023 was mild, in the 50s and 60s, foretelling a winter that was milder than usual…again. In the era of climate change, no winter has been below normal…
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HAVING roamed Governors Island for the first time in a few years, my mission was to pay attention to the older infrastructure. I first stopped on the island at Christmas…