It occurs to me that I haven’t done an entry in the Forgotten NY Street Necrology category for awhile, and in this case, I want to do something a bit…
Manhattan
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ENTRANCE and exit kiosks were constructed by the IRT, or Interborough Rapid Transit (today’s numbered subway lines) for its original 28 stations from City Hall north to 145th Street along…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent SECOND to Queens Boulevard, with its express and local lanes, the north-south version of this major artery is the combination of Woodhaven and Cross Bay…
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NOT long ago, I spotted this billboard outside the School of Visual Arts on East 23rd Street and 2nd Avenue, honoring Milton Glaser, perhaps the best known graphic designer of…
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THE family-run Albanese Meats & Poultry, in business in Little Italy since 1923 and currently at #238 Elizabeth Street between Prince and East Houston, features what appears to be a…
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At the bend in the shoreline that is Corlears Hook, an amphitheater fits right in. This East River Park bandshell was funded in 2001 by consumer rights activist Erin Brockovich…
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WHILE wandering around in lower Manhattan in 2018, I spotted a rather forbidding-looking building at #102-104 Greenwich, just north of Rector (and one of my favorite lunch joints, George’s Restaurant).…
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THOUGH Teddy Roosevelt has left the entrance of the Museum of Natural History on Central Park West (he is going to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND in…
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Something a little unusual today: an FNY page composed in 2010 that somehow was left off the two site reconstructions done in 2011 and 2019. Some of this info may…
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UNMARKED on street maps and un-signed by the Department of Transportation, Stable Court is a crack of pavement between Two Cooper Square, an upscale highrise with a rooftop pool (a…
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HERE’S 488 Broadway at Broome Street, the Haughwout (pronounced HA-wout) Building. Some architectural experts call it the most beautiful castiron building in NYC. It has competition there especially in Soho, but…
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BEGINNING a series here that I will return to from time to time about where NYC’s longest roads originate. My aim here is to show the “sources” of roads and…