THERE are some spots in Manhattan in which entire blocks of streets have been lost in the name of urban renewal or urban planning. One such area was a warren…
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I think my favorite Forgotten NY posts are the ones where I get to talk specifically about NYC infrastructure, most of it managed by the Department of Transportation or Metropolitan…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent THROUGHOUT this city there are examples of interagency cooperation as one public authority hands over its property to another. In the Bronx, the route…
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A pattern has formed in the late winter and spring, as the Forgotten NY camera has been stalking around lower Manhattan, especially Soho, the Lower East Side, and Chinatown, as…
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J.G. Melon, a tavern at 3rd Avenue and East 74th Street, is hardly Forgotten, as it is famed far and wide for its burger as so many taverns in the…
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As is well known to readers of Forgotten New York, the slotted Donald Deskey lamps, whose design was created by the famed interior designer of Radio City Music Hall, was…
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FOR reasons that will become apparent, I always had something of an affinity for Market Street, which sidles up to the Manhattan Bridge’s south side and runs for a few…
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In no other Manhattan neighborhood has the street map changed more greatly over the decades than the Lower East Side, more specifically the easternmost section known as Corlears Hook, where…
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AVENUE of the Finest runs for one block between Madison and Pearl Streets along Murray Bergtraum High School and a huge Verizon tower that has been described as NYC’s ugliest…
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THE mission was simple. To walk the entire length of Chrystie Street from Canal to Houston, and then 2nd Avenue as far north as I pleased, the reason being that…
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TUCKED away beside the Manhattan Bridge, predating it by a century or more, was a one-lane alley called Birmingham Street, running between Henry and Madison Street east of Market Street.…
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SEVERAL buildings in the Lower East Side bear Stars of David. The Lower East Side was originally known as Kleindeutschland, or “Little Germany.” After the General Slocum steamboat disaster in…