THE early 1950s saw new lamppost designs appearing on New York City streets. The Art Deco, Machine Age and Art Moderne movements in architecture had given rise to new, streamlined…
Manhattan
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A golden oldie from 1999, here’s a Twin Type F lamppost on Sutton Square at the east end of East 58th Street at the East River. The base of this…
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A narrow tower on West 14th just off 6th was one of the last buildings constructed for Macy’s when the World’s Biggest Store occupied a complex of buildings on West…
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BROADWAY begins at Battery Place and Bowling Green and runs as a continuous road, much of it NY State Route #9, almost all the way to the Canadian border. In…
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BEFORE heading off to see the recently reopened section of East River Park (on an upcoming FNY post) I decided to check out Rutgers Street, because I had never walked…
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WHILE journeying over to Elizabeth Street to view the Elizabeth Street Garden, which locals and preservationists want to save, developers are salivating over, and has become something of a political…
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FROM 2021 comes this image of the giant painted ad for men’s clothier Weber & Heilbroner at 6th Avenue and West 35th Street, directly across the street from the statue…
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CAN it really be almost nine years since I last explored the underground passageway beneath Rockefeller Center that rins beneath 6th Avenue from west 47th to 53rd Streets and then…
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AROUND the corner from the Museum Mile of Fifth Avenue at 6 East 87th Street in a private alley is a detailed statue more worthy of a public space, known…
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THE city’s Hall of Records at 31 Chambers Street is an unlikely candidate for a Forgotten-NY essay as its exterior and interior are landmarked, it appeared in numerous movies, and…
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KEEP looking down…you may see a piece of New York City forgotten history. A few years ago I was ambling east on East 95th Street near Hunter College High School…
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FORGOTTEN FAN Jonathan Rickard passes along what appear to be exposed trolley tracks, and a bit of Belgian block paving, in a storage area at the remaining 1909 vintage lamppost…