On the unholiest day of the year, I’m featuring a church, Our Lady of Good Counsel Roman Catholic Church, constructed on 230 East 90th between 2nd and 3rd Avenues in…
Manhattan
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I was meeting someone in Yorkville a couple of weeks ago and I was a bit early, so I started shuffling about, and decided to investigate these massive edifices between…
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This townhouse at 428 West 44th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues was owned by actress June Havoc, the sister of burlesque queen/author Gypsy Rose Lee, from 1962-1969. It’s said…
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It’s not politically correct to like the High Line Park on the west side of Manhattan, which now runs from West 34th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues all the…
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This pair of Federal Style houses at 511 and 513 Grand Street, just east of East Broadway, with peaked roofs and pedimented dormers, was constructed in 1828 by James Lent…
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I was in the mood for a fast, no fuss, no muss page this week, with less research and toil than necessary, as this is a tour week and I’ll…
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Everyone has heard of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where generations of film stars have signed their names and imprinted their hands in wet concrete. It turns out we have…
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It’s hard to say which neighborhood the Cup & Saucer on Canal and Eldridge Streets is in. If this was 30 years ago you could say without a doubt it…
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Sequestered along quiet East 92nd Street east of Park Avenue are a trio of grand old wooden houses with porches, distinctive in the Upper East Side due to their contrast…
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High Bridge, which spans the Harlem River between High Bridge Park at about West 174th Street and University Avenue (MLK Boulevard) and West 170th Street in the Bronx, is hard…
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Traffic engineers and the Feds can tout the legibility of Clearview all they like, but this pair of signs, likely to be replaced by Clearview in the next couple of…
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There’s been an added emphasis this summer on one of the very first things I ever examined for Forgotten NY when I began this thing in 1999 — the locked…