IT’S one of a kind…but it used to be two of a kind. Back in 1998, I (nearly) panicked when this copper-clad, vertigris’ed lamppost at the eastbound Queensboro Bridge entrance…
Manhattan
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A nickname the late radio legend Don Imus gave himself many years ago because he was born with three testicles instead of the usual complement was “Tres Huevos.” I may…
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I was asked to help out a pal with a photo of the ancient Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I realize the last really good batch of photos I obtained…
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NEW York City’s skyline is the envy of the world, a sight tourists travel from across the globe to see. But in some places, its sidewalks are nearly as interesting,…
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ONE day, I’ll do a thorough look at the streets in northern Tribeca as I haven’t written about that area much. Unlike other parts of Tribeca and neighboring Soho, these…
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THE grand Manhattan Bridge plaza, which fronts the Bowery at Canal Street, was completed in 1916 and is the design of John M. Carrere and Thomas Hastings, who also built the New York…
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I squeezed off this photo while awaiting for the crowd to assemble for a Forgotten NY tour across the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges in June 2008. Forgotten NY tours were…
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HOLLAND Tunnel engineer Ole Singstad (who replaced original tunnel engineer Clifford Milburn Holland) is little remembered today but should be mentioned in the same breath as Robert Moses and Othmar…
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GRAND Central Terminal tourgoers cluster around a derelict baggage car in early 2016. For years a myth persisted that this baggage car was used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while he…
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BY SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent At the end of 2023, the ribbon was cut on the East Midtown Greenway, an elevated walkway built above the water, connecting East 54th Street…
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PERHAPS you don’t immediately know the name Piet Mondrian, but you might more readily know his style: unevenly spaced boxes, some filled with color, some without. They have been used in…
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THE big bruiser at East 53rd and Lexington is the Citicorp Tower (since renamed the Citigroup Center). It was built between 1974 and 1977 and is 914 feet tall; its slanted roof,…