YET one more example of the classic residential architecture of the early 20th Century I found while dazedly trundling through the Upper west Side in April 2021 at #200 West…
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DURING the summer, I walked many of lower Manhattan’s streets lengthwise from end to end, such as Barclay, Park Place, Murray, Warren, Duane. I have held the photos in reserve…
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CONTINUING my fascination with subway stationhouses… not every one of the NYC subways’ outdoor stations has one. Express or important stations on the Original 28 IRT stations built by Heins…
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THE Bazzini nut empire moved out of the massive 339-343 Greenwich at Jay Street in 2009 after 123 years in Tribeca; it was originally located on Park Place but moved here in…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…