This gilded, ornate street clock is perhaps the most magnificent still existing in New York City. It was installed in 1909, at the same time 200 5th Avenue, in front of…
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The Episcopal St. Mary’s Church, West 126th Street between Old Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, is in many ways the heart of Manhattanville. It was first organized in 1823 as a branch church of…
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As recent FNY readers know, I went to work temporarily recently in the same building where I began my career in typesetting and the printed word over thirty years ago…
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The incredible Corinthian apartment tower, with its myriad bay windows looms behind St. Vartan’s Church at 2nd Avenue and East 34th Street. The Corinthian was constructed in 1987 by architect…
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For several weeks in April and May, I worked overnights in the Grand Central Terminal area. There are a variety of ways to get from the subway into the Terminal…
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Playmates Arch, along with the Dairy, the Carousel, the Zoo and the Chess & Checkers House, is in a part of Central Park once formally designated as the Children’s District.…
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For over three decades livery driver Matt Weber has been one of NYC’s best street photographers, capturing NYC’s essence from its people to its infrastructure. A biographical documentary, More Than The…
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By SERGEY KADINSKY Forgotten NY correspondent In his previous crosstown photo surveys, Kevin Walsh walked from river to river on Houston Street, 14th Street, and 155th Street, the highest marked…
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Ten years ago in 2008, Forgotten NY chronicled the remaining Twin Donald Deskey lamps on 5th Avenue, and found that their numbers were dwindling indeed. In the ten years since,…
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In the spring of 2018, I was working in a building from 12 midnight to 8 am I last worked in 30 years ago. The company I worked for then, Photo-Lettering,went…
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I’m a little unclear on whether the ramp that takes Park Avenue traffic up over East 42nd Street and around Grand Central Terminal was built. GCT itself goes back to 1913…
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I discovered this illuminated subway sign quite serendipitously when wandering around the Grand Central Terminal area prior to checking into a midnight temp job at a financial publisher. It’s just…