Soho

I had a rare foray on the #6 line running south on Lafayette Street recently and got out at Spring Street to see how one of my favorite stations is…

In the late winters and springs of 2022 I found I was walking through Soho and its bordering neighborhoods, Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Already, I have assembled pages…

A pattern has formed in the late winter and spring, as the Forgotten NY camera has been stalking around lower Manhattan, especially Soho, the Lower East Side, and Chinatown, as…

UNSTEADILY lurching down Prince Street recently in the cold wind, dodging sidewalk obstructions such as tree planters and sidewalk dining areas as well as fellow New Yorkers, I paid homage…

The famed Puck Building takes up the entire block between Lafayette, Mulberry, the alley Jersey Street and East Houston. It was built as a printing plant between 1886 and 1893 by the…

It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series! I have been walking Manhattan’s numbered streets from east to west or vice versa so compulsively, I’ve decided…

Believe it or not there are times when I get a bit less enthusiastic about Forgotten New York. The worst times for this are the times I am especially busy…

I recently took a walk from Penn Station, exploring the newest and final section of the High Line that will open to the public, into Chelsea, south along 4th Avenue…

Somehow, when I walked the length of Prince Street in SoHo in 2012, I missed this little gem of a building at #203, just east of 6th Avenue. The building…

In March 2019 I was on my way to Canal Street to begin my first-ever walk there when I stopped off in some less-well-known SoHo enclaves to take a look.…

I realized in late winter 2019 that I had never walked Canal Street from SoHo all the way east to where it ends at East Broadway, despite there being some…

Here’s a 1940 photograph of Grand Street looking east from West Broadway in SoHo. Naturally the first thing I noticed was the unusually curved lamppost on the corner. Why would…