Turtle Bay

In 2015, Kevin visited the East 54th Street Recreation Center in Turtle Bay, documenting its Beaux Arts architecture. Since then, it was renamed for Constance Baker Motley, continuing its role…

THIS building on the northeast corner of 3rd Avenue and East 45th looms large in my memory. From 1982-1988, I was in the building most nights between 2 and 3…

I recently walked much of East and West 45th, which will eventually turn up in an FNY Crosstown page. On the street, I worked for 6 straight years at what…

As Forgotten NY readers know I am an infrastructure buff and FNY is at its heart an infrastructure blog, so when something like a new pedestrian bridge opens, I’m usually…

Continued from Part 1 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…

Speaking of “White Christmas,” which we almost had this year before a windy rainstorm washed away last week’s snow accumulation, here’s the house on Beekman Place and East 50th Street…

Mayor Ed Koch named these steps leading from 1st Avenue to Tudor City at East 43rd Street in 1981 for Nathan Sharansky (1948 – ), a native Ukrainian who worked tirelessly to allow…

As I’ve documented quite a bit on FNY, I worked in the Turtle Bay area in NYC from 1982-1988 and again, briefly, in 2018, at 216 East 45th Street. However,…

It’s time for another entry in FNY’s Cross Streets of NYC series…  I’ve done them piecemeal in the past, but I’ve already posted 20th Street, 22nd Street, 17th Street, 10th Street, 6th Street and…

The Works Progress Administration Guide to NYC is a dense, 700-page volume with tightly-spaced type in a small but readable Garamond font, with a generous use of maps, art and…

One of the few non-numbered north-south routes in New York City, Sutton Place and Sutton Place South are a block east of 1st Avenue and stand in for Avenue A…

The Italianate apartment-mixed use building 985 2nd Avenue, on the corner of East 52nd, is loomed over by more recent structures such as 875 3rd Avenue (1982) in whose basement food…