Manhattan

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…

BY NATALIA PARUZForgotten New York guest post HIDDEN in plain sight, just steps from the bustling main doors of Trinity Church at Broadway and Wall Street, lies a piece of…

THERE are three separate styles of lampposts at the new-ish 72nd Street stationhouse at Verdi Square, where Broadway meets Amsterdam Avenue. Two I am familiar with, while the other one…

GREATEST naval commander of the Civil War David Farragut’s father was a Spanish sea captain who fought for the colonies in the Revolution. After his mother died, his father allowed…