SEEN at 5th Avenue and 23rd Street at Madison Square are a trio of gems I snapped in May 2026. At left is perhaps, by the magnificent Flatiron (Fuller) Building…
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by PATRICK O’CONNORForgotten NY Contributor THIS year marks the 50th anniversary of The New York Transit museum and part of the celebrations include screening of several films that feature the…
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YOU know what can be a key indicator of where things were in the New York City of long ago? Manhole covers and coal chute covers. There’s a hidden city…
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THE campanile, or bell tower, of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, 173 East 3rd between Avenues A and B, dominates the East Village skyline. The church is cathedral-sized and believe it…
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An ancient painted ad for Coca-Cola appears on #60 Grand Street, just east of the low-rise, 2-story #337 West Broadway (itself constructed in 1886 and designed by architect Peter V.…
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Is the blue and white painted sign for De Lorenzo & Bro. Iron & Sheet Metal Contractor at #43-45 Grand Street, just east of 6th Avenue, gone for good? I…
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WHILE limping north on 9th/Columbus Avenue from Penn Station in June 2022, I spotted the figure of a trumpeter on top of what looked like a flagpole on the northeast…
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CROSBY Street is one of those NYC streets that traditionally had been somewhat overlooked, since it’s wedged between main N-S thoroughfares Broadway and Lafayette Street between Howard and Bleecker Streets. It…
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Having documented a long-demolished bathhouse across the street from John Jay Park on the Upper East Side, I learned that it had a Beaux Arts counterpart on the west side…
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THE McKim, Mead and White architectural firm designed the enormous former James Farley post office, which opened in 1913, as a companion to Pennsylvania Station, just across 8th Avenue. A…
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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…