THE other Saturday I was puttering around in the Brooklyn Battery (Hugh Carey) Tunnel area in the arctic cold and then investigated Battery Park City, where I have acquired two…
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WHAT a difference 6 years make. In March 2015 I was picking my way through Tribeca at the end of a considerably cold winter, by far the coldest in recent…
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GLAD to get out of the house for the first time in a couple of weeks (I’m “chained to the computer” at home during the week, and the weekends have…
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AWHILE back, Forgotten NY noted some unexpected vehicular tunnels around town on a page that got good response. It got me to thinking about some unexpected traffic bridges around town…
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WHILE edging down Hudson Street In October 2021 I once again passed Golden Rule Liquors at #457 with its pair of neon sidewalk signs, one above the door, one suspended…
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BEFORE anyone says anything —since Forgotten New York can be the headquarters of Nitpickers International at times — yes, I know there are five shots on this One Shots page.…
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HERE’S a look at the westbound exit ramp of the Queens-Midtown tunnel the year it opened, in 1940. To an infrastructure buff, there are several interesting things going on here.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten New York correspondent MORE than two decades have passed since Kevin Walsh launched Forgotten-NY and among the neighborhoods that continues to reveal fascinating details of city history…
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I have mentioned NYC’s major tunnels only tangentially in Forgotten New York. Over more than 20 years, the site has become about NYC’s built infrastructure (at least the parts I…
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As mentioned on a recent post, on a sparkling December Saturday (quite unlike the following one during which I’m writing this) I decided to walk Chambers Street then across the…
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I should really save this one for a Chambers Street page, since I recently walked the lower Manhattan route while aiming for the Brooklyn Bridge, whose pedestrian path has finally…
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Back in June, I was ambling around in the East Village and recorded scenes along East 2nd Street. At the same time, I also checked out East 1st Street, which…