GOING through my backlog of thousands of photos (and I’d have a bigger backlog if my photos from 2008-2015 hadn’t been lost in a botched hard drive backup somewhere along…
Times Square
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Times Square seems like the least “forgotten” place in New York, but it is where this website had its start in 1997 with the fading ad for J.A. Keal’s Cariage…
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By SERGEY KADINSKYForgotten NY correspondent In Manhattan, open space is nearly nonexistent, with the sky as its frontier for growth. Universities on this island with vertical campuses include CUNY’s Baruch…
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FORGOTTEN NY fan Kyle Supley found this quite faded ad for Titanic the Musical in a Park Fast lot at #305 West 44th, west of 8th Avenue. Of course I…
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I just want to do a quick Sunday feature page this week, as I got plenty of walking in and watched plenty of baseball and football. A few weeks ago…
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Of all of New York City’s hundreds of subway stations, the Times Square Shuttle station is the one I’ve always found the most fascinating. The original IRT subway constructed from…
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The last time I spent an afternoon in Times Square, it was the coldest day of the winter in February 2016. The temperature had dropped to one below in the morning,…
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In 2009, the Department of Transportation posted a Lincoln Highway sign in the maroon color generally used to denote NYC Landmarked districts at West 42nd Street and Broadway in Times…
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This ancient painted ad, which appeared at Duffy Square, Broadway and West 47th Street, in 1998 after the demolition of a corner building, was among Forgotten NY’s many mothers and…
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Dazedly dodging Times Square crowds in the numbing cold of mid-February I found myself at 7th Avenue and West 46th Street, home on the ground floor at least to the…
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During recent scuttlings in the Midtown area, I passed right through Times Square, a place I’m rarely spotted, because in general, crowds don’t much interest me. This particular morning the…
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The southwest corner of Broadway and West 47th Street at Duffy Square was a very important spot for Forgotten NY in its very early days in March 1999 when the…