Today’s topic in Forgotten New York may be a bit confusing at first, but bear with me. Have you ever been walking through a neighborhood in which all or the…
Manhattan
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In the midst of a brainsearing July 2017 afternoon I was staggering up Broadway in SoHo, seeking anything old and unexplained, besides myself. During these walks I often glance near…
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Mitchel Square, a triangle formed by Broadway, St. Nicholas Avenue and West 167th Street, honors NYC mayor John Purroy Mitchel, known as the Boy Mayor because he was, and remains, the…
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5 has always been my favorite digit. I don’t know how many people have favorite digits but I have always had an affinity for it despite the fact that it’s…
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The state’s Metropolitan Transit Authority and its city cousin the Department of Transportation love to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of the $$$$ generated from taxes, on signage.…
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Last week I told of walking east on 29th Street to get to the city’s Park Avenue Summer Streets program, held the first three Saturdays of every August between 7…
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I was on my way to photograph the 2017 edition of Summer Streets, a program in which NYC and the Department of Transportation close Lafayette Street, 4th and Park Avenues…
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I have spent some time in lower Manhattan of late — I gave a ForgottenTour in Battery Park in July 2017 — and always seem to find myself on lower…
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I am posting about a pair of my favorite Midtown buildings today, one immediately endangered, the other not. I’ve known about each of them for quite awhile. Both are from…
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Duke Ellington Circle, 5th Avenue and 110th Street at the northeast end of Central Park, features these last surviving examples of leaf-scrolled “Corvingtons” ( coined the name “Leafies” for them) that…
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It’s always a sad day when any mass transit is eliminated, and it was indeed in August 1942 when the Second Avenue El was taken down. This shot shows a workman…
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Fire Patrol #2, on #84 West 3rd between Thompson and Sullivan, looks a great deal like New York City firehouses built in the early 20th Century and has embellishments like…