Continued from Part Three THURSDAY, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day, dawned sunny and bright. I usually have been at one cousin or the other’s Thanksgiving extravaganza but that year, they…
Ridgewood
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I have been thinking about the Interborough Express, a proposed mass transit line connecting Bay Ridge and Jackson Heights running mainly along the rights of way of the NY &…
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No one is really celebrating it, but on the eve of the nation’s 249th anniversary, I’d like to mention another anniversary: the redrawing of the Brooklyn-Queens borderline separating present-day neighborhoods…
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Last week I posted an item about Stier Place in Ridgewood, whose highlight is the 1916 Ridgewood Democratic Club. Sergey mentioned he has some photos from the interior… INSIDE the…
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From FNY’s first Ridgewood page in 2005: In the first decade of the 20th Century Paul Stier built more than 750 houses in Ridgewood under his own name, and after…
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CLOSING out yet another year, Forgotten New York’s 25th, today I will mention Sazon Nuñez Corp. at Wyckoff and DeKalb Avenues, conveniently located at the DeKalb Avenue L train station.…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent ALONG the Jackie Robinson Parkway where the Queens-Brooklyn border runs atop the glacial terminal moraine are a set of cemeteries straddling that line, each with…
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I have shown the exterior of the Van Der Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing and Onderdonk Avenues on the undefended Brooklyn and Queens boundary a number of times on FNY, so…
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REMNANTS of NYC’s streetcar lines, which existed in all five boroughs until the late 194os and early 1950s, are getting fewer and “far betweener” since I began photography for Forgotten…
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I have always held a fascination for Myrtle Avenue that goes all the way back to 1965. That’s the year my mother and I set off on foot for several…
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THE twin towers of St. Aloysius (pronounced “alla WISH us”) Roman Catholic Church at Stockholm Street and Onderdonk Avenue can be seen for miles in Ridgewood and nearby Maspeth. It…
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WHEN looking for appropriate material for Memorial Day weekend my thoughts turned to Myrtle Avenue, a lengthy street that is about equal parts in Brooklyn and Queens, and I remembered…