Manhattan

GOING through my backlog of thousands of photos (and I’d have a bigger backlog if my photos from 2008-2015 hadn’t been lost in a botched hard drive backup somewhere along…

By DAVID MELTZERForgotten NY contributor THE Korean War lasted for three years, from June of 1950 until the armistice signed in July of 1953.  It is often called “The Forgotten…

I never wear sandals, because my toes are a mess; I think they’re too far gone for any spa to fix, and I’m not up for expensive podiatrist treatments. Thus,…

In 2026, it’s easy to imagine how oddly modern and strange that modular Donald Deskey lampposts, named for their designer, a commercial artist who also designed the Gleem toothpaste tube,…

OVERSHADOWED, perhaps, by the magnificent Flatiron (Fuller) Building across the street, which has been occasionally fully or partially shadowed by construction netting the past couple of decades, is the Sohmer…

Previously in 2026, First Reformed Church of Astoria (1888) and  South Bushwick Church (1853) perished by fire; more recently, St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea has been demolished. Not a…

LET’S turn the clock back to February 28, 2026 when I was just starting to roam with the camera again after about three months of inactivity. After several mild winters,…

Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…

LOCATED in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, two-mile long Roosevelt Island since 1971 has been the home of a small town of about 8,300 people in the midst…

In this century, nearly every new high-rise in Manhattan is covered in glass with form, function, but no exterior ornamentation. On 42nd Street, the One Vanderbilt, Bank of America Tower,…

Time for another entry in Sergey Kadinsky’s ongoing series featuring ethnic parks and monuments, following Irish Town, Latino Town and Italian Town. Once again, listings are not presented in strict…

THE blocks around Grand Central Terminal are the most ideal workplaces in the city for their connections to transit. In the last century before airplanes became the dominant form of…